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Visual art round-up: Brian Ballard’s paintings get better with age

Visual art round-up: Brian Ballard’s paintings get better with age

The Belfast painter's work has aged very well

Tue Oct 27 2015 - 06:00
Shot by firing squad for ‘cowardice and desertion’ | Visual art round-up

Shot by firing squad for ‘cowardice and desertion’ | Visual art round-up

Chloe Dewe Mathews visited sites where first World War servicemen were executed

Tue Oct 20 2015 - 06:00
A startling clash of civilisations in Dublin | Visual art round-up

A startling clash of civilisations in Dublin | Visual art round-up

A National Gallery show juxtaposes Jackie Nickerson photos from Africa with portraits of western privilege; and Makiko Nakamura’s abstract work is dramatic

Tue Oct 13 2015 - 06:00
Crazy, big, surreal thing called love | Visual art

Crazy, big, surreal thing called love | Visual art

A kiss is not just a kiss in this big Imma show about a big emotion

Tue Oct 06 2015 - 06:00
Fresh takes on Stephen Shore’s gas station | Visual Art round-up

Fresh takes on Stephen Shore’s gas station | Visual Art round-up

Plus, David Godbold’s sarcasm continues to divide; and David Claerbout is never less than watchable

Tue Sept 29 2015 - 06:00
The art of conflict: paintings of 1916

The art of conflict: paintings of 1916

Jack B Yeats, Robert Ballagh and Sir John Lavery are among the artists who have taken inspiration from the 1916 Rising, writes The Irish Times art critic

Wed Sept 23 2015 - 05:00
Beneath the surface of ordinary family life | Visual art round-up

Beneath the surface of ordinary family life | Visual art round-up

Sabine Lacey paints real photographs to explore the history of a family; Bridget O’Gorman’s sculptures point to some unspoken calamity; and Johnny Savage’s book is a thoughtful, valuable take on the 21st-century Irish landscape

Tue Sept 22 2015 - 06:00
Gothic fantasy, headless horses and chilly vistas | Visual art round-up

Gothic fantasy, headless horses and chilly vistas | Visual art round-up

Gary Coyle’s exhibition is superb, and three other Dublin shows also have plenty to explore

Tue Sept 15 2015 - 06:00
A high-risk performance from Amanda Coogan | Visual art

A high-risk performance from Amanda Coogan | Visual art

For those who are wary of performance art, Coogan’s approach may sway you

Tue Sept 08 2015 - 06:00
A Sligo group show dreams big and succeeds | Visual art round-up

A Sligo group show dreams big and succeeds | Visual art round-up

‘Magnetism’ rises to the challenge of its venue’s scale; and Anna Macleod’s polite protests hit home

Tue Sept 01 2015 - 06:00
Charles Tyrrell finds human fallibility in the logic of the grid | Visual art

Charles Tyrrell finds human fallibility in the logic of the grid | Visual art

Tyrrell’s paintings, in the tricky Uillinn gallery, aim for the ‘rightness’ of nature

Tue Aug 25 2015 - 06:00
Five artists push Tallaght’s boundaries | Visual art round-up

Five artists push Tallaght’s boundaries | Visual art round-up

The Young Curators Project throws up some fascinating takes on the landscape

Tue Aug 18 2015 - 06:00
Daring Dublin artist Kevin Gaffney goes through the mill

Daring Dublin artist Kevin Gaffney goes through the mill

Gaffney will use his Sky Academy Arts Scholarship for a project about the Shackleton Mill in Lucan that will involve film, photography and a book

Wed Aug 12 2015 - 06:00
Pioneers of agitprop, from Russia to Tyrone | Visual art round-up

Pioneers of agitprop, from Russia to Tyrone | Visual art round-up

A desire to use art to effect political change unites El Lissitzky and Alice Milligan

Tue Aug 11 2015 - 06:00
Visual Art: Stephen McKenna finds the unity in fragmentation

Visual Art: Stephen McKenna finds the unity in fragmentation

A fascination with Europe as a ritual cultural entity is reflected in these paintings from 1980 onward

Tue Aug 04 2015 - 00:00
Tadhg McSweeney picks up where Picasso left off | Visual art round-up

Tadhg McSweeney picks up where Picasso left off | Visual art round-up

McSweeney’s collaged sculptures are a delight; while an Adam’s show looks north

Tue Jul 28 2015 - 04:00
Stan Douglas at Imma: Every picture reveals a thousand details

Stan Douglas at Imma: Every picture reveals a thousand details

Imma is showing the work of the renowned Canadian photographer

Wed Jul 22 2015 - 05:45
Border tensions and a fraught relationship | Visual art at GIAF

Border tensions and a fraught relationship | Visual art at GIAF

The China-Russia border, dystopian visions, an uneasy road trip and feats of origami feature in four festival exhibitions

Tue Jul 21 2015 - 04:00
Strange evolution: meet the weird relatives

Strange evolution: meet the weird relatives

It’s life but not as we know it: Australian artist Patricia Piccinini uses silicon, fibreglass and hair to make strange creatures that seem biologically plausible. But why?

Wed Jul 15 2015 - 06:00
Grand gestures and a forbidding landscape | Visual art round-up

Grand gestures and a forbidding landscape | Visual art round-up

Michael Coleman puts on an almost perfect show; a piece of Birmingham moves to Temple Bar; and Amelia Stein goes close to the edge

Tue Jul 14 2015 - 15:55
Understated wit, wallpaper and words | Visual art round-up

Understated wit, wallpaper and words | Visual art round-up

Ramon Kassam looks for the most elegant solution; Gavin Hogg takes a Jungian path; and a posthumous Martin Folan show exudes integrity

Tue Jul 07 2015 - 04:00
Italian fables and the records of a break-up | Visual art round-up

Italian fables and the records of a break-up | Visual art round-up

Three artists at Hillsboro share a love for a great Italian tradition; and Catherine Barron throws herself into her work

Tue Jun 30 2015 - 04:00
Lost civilisations and the uncivilised future | Visual Art round-up

Lost civilisations and the uncivilised future | Visual Art round-up

Project’s big summer show is an unwieldy but thought-provoking display

Tue Jun 23 2015 - 04:00

We owe the Beits a considerable debt

Russborough and the Beit collection together form a national treasure, and should be treated as such

Sat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
Discontent and material gain at student shows | Visual Art round-up

Discontent and material gain at student shows | Visual Art round-up

NCAD’s troubles spilled into its degree show, although there was work of note there and at DIT and IADT

Fri Jun 12 2015 - 01:00
A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-up

A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-up

Bedwyr Williams shows us a broken-down future; while Gypsy Ray’s photographs display great warmth

Tue Jun 09 2015 - 04:00
Bring up the bodies – and have a good look at them | Visual arts round-up

Bring up the bodies – and have a good look at them | Visual arts round-up

Sam Keogh’s fine new exhibition explores our treatment of human remains and what it reveals about us

Tue Jun 02 2015 - 04:00
A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members

A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members

Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie

Tue May 26 2015 - 04:00
Visual Art round-up: Uncertain prospects and a park that keeps secrets

Visual Art round-up: Uncertain prospects and a park that keeps secrets

Karla Black’s Imma show falls short of allowing access to an imaginative space

Tue May 19 2015 - 04:00
When Africa came to the Arsenale, and the Irish Biennale adventure

When Africa came to the Arsenale, and the Irish Biennale adventure

Venice’s first African-born curator, Okwui Enwezor, is on a mission to clean up the spiritual home of the art world and remind us of its social and political responsibilities

Sun May 17 2015 - 14:00
Trapped in the tight, murky orbit of Ballinasloe

Trapped in the tight, murky orbit of Ballinasloe

Visual Art: Ciarán Óg Arnold’s photographic book shows us a world of drinking, messing and masculine swagger

Tue May 12 2015 - 03:00
Visual Art round-up: Painters who break the rules

Visual Art round-up: Painters who break the rules

Two intriguing group exhibitions ask whether we can believe our eyes

Tue May 05 2015 - 01:00
Visual Art round-up: Back to the DeLorean, and on to the future

Visual Art round-up: Back to the DeLorean, and on to the future

This week’s shows feature a mythologised car and superstition, emerging artists, and beautiful woodturning

Tue Apr 28 2015 - 01:00
Visual Art round-up: Worlds on the brink  and cosmic explorations

Visual Art round-up: Worlds on the brink and cosmic explorations

Exhibitions by Clare Langan and Diana Copperwhite succeed, while a group show in Carlow is less certain

Tue Apr 21 2015 - 01:00
Was sculptor Gerda Frömel too subtle for success?

Was sculptor Gerda Frömel too subtle for success?

The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospective

Thu Apr 16 2015 - 07:00
Visual Art round-up: Bent knees and a strange nostalgia for the future

Visual Art round-up: Bent knees and a strange nostalgia for the future

Installations, painting, etchings and photography: four Dublin shows have it all

Tue Apr 14 2015 - 10:00
Mick O’Dea redraws Irish history

Mick O’Dea redraws Irish history

Books about the work of O’Dea and Robert Armstrong are, respectively, provocative and sumptuous

Tue Apr 07 2015 - 01:00
The magnificant seven treasures of Japanese cloisonné

The magnificant seven treasures of Japanese cloisonné

The golden age of this ancient enamelling technique is given an exceptional showcase

Tue Mar 31 2015 - 01:00
The AIB art collection: here’s one the bankers got right

The AIB art collection: here’s one the bankers got right

Far from being a corporate bauble, the AIB Art Collection, featuring Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Roderic O’Conor among others, is an exceptional showcase of 20th-century Irish work

Tue Mar 24 2015 - 01:00
Rose Wylie’s goal: to paint like a five-year-old

Rose Wylie’s goal: to paint like a five-year-old

At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness

Tue Mar 17 2015 - 01:00
Saints alive (and almost dead): the power of Counter-Reformation paintings

Saints alive (and almost dead): the power of Counter-Reformation paintings

The power of these images goes far beyond their historical significance

Tue Mar 10 2015 - 09:51
Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds

Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds

A series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critique

Tue Mar 03 2015 - 10:00
The Whitworth: bigger is better for the ‘Tate of the north’

The Whitworth: bigger is better for the ‘Tate of the north’

The expanded Manchester gallery is looking to make an explosive impact

Tue Feb 24 2015 - 01:00
Anthony Lyttle's drawings hold vast reservoirs of feeling beneath the surface

Anthony Lyttle's drawings hold vast reservoirs of feeling beneath the surface

His densely patterned works have an in-between quality that unsettles the eye but also keeps it interested

Tue Feb 17 2015 - 10:00
From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmare

From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmare

Mullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapes

Tue Feb 10 2015 - 10:00
The bright new gallery by the sea: welcome to Dún Laoghaire’s Municipal

The bright new gallery by the sea: welcome to Dún Laoghaire’s Municipal

The fine gallery is part of the flagship Lexicon library, a testament to civic generosity

Wed Feb 04 2015 - 14:41
Mark Garry’s thread rainbows and the elephant in the room

Mark Garry’s thread rainbows and the elephant in the room

The sense of something fleeting and fading gives exhibitions by Garry, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra and Nick Miller their strength

Tue Feb 03 2015 - 06:00
List of the week: 10 great Irish paintings on public display

List of the week: 10 great Irish paintings on public display

A new weekly column brings you curated lists from Irish Times experts. Here, our art critic suggests 10 Irish paintings worth seeking out

Sat Jan 31 2015 - 12:06
The age-old traditions of Gareth Kennedy’s invented worlds

The age-old traditions of Gareth Kennedy’s invented worlds

The artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’

Tue Jan 27 2015 - 01:00
Niamh O’Malley’s films draw us in close

Niamh O’Malley’s films draw us in close

The artist’s exhibition is a tactful, tentative intrusion into the Douglas Hyde Gallery’s brutalist fabric

Tue Jan 20 2015 - 10:00
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