The inventive and industrious Sean Lynch is a good fit for Venice BiennaleAmong this year’s essential exhibitions is Lynch’s Biennale show, which will tour Ireland after ItalyTue Jan 13 2015 - 10:00
Dorothy Cross builds new old art from our national treasure troveThe artist juxtaposes works and objects from seven national institutions to uncover some small truthsTue Jan 06 2015 - 10:40
A new-look home for the Wallace Collection in ‘Europe’s greatest picture gallery’The London gem’s Great Gallery gets a £5 million makeoverTue Dec 30 2014 - 12:00
Patrick Scott: Pivotal figure in world of Irish art and designThrough his painting and design work, the late artist changed our view of ourselvesTue Dec 30 2014 - 01:00
Aidan Dunne’s cultural highs and lows of 2014’Eva International’, in Limerick, was on a par with other art biennialsSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Vera Klute studies the human animal in its natural habitatThe German-born artist’s exceptional show is disturbing and even slightly creepyTue Dec 16 2014 - 01:00
Eoin Mc Hugh’s bog beast and Freudian tripA convincing exhibition channels the artist’s interest in psychoanalysis and the Rorschach testTue Dec 09 2014 - 12:00
Turner winner Duncan Campbell's work is now on home soilFilms at Imma by the Dublin-born artist approach their subjects – including Bernadette Devlin McAliskey – obliquely, including the one that earned him this year's Turner prizeTue Dec 02 2014 - 10:35
Cleary Connolly show us how the world looks to a hammerhead sharkVisual art: The artistic partnership’s helmets offer a glimpse of life as different speciesTue Dec 02 2014 - 10:06
No need for anxiety as Tulca engages in GalwayIts theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steadyTue Nov 18 2014 - 08:00
Sligo-based Nick Miller wins inaugural Hennessy Portrait PrizePainting of the late Barrie Cooke is selected from shortlist of 12 worksFri Nov 14 2014 - 17:55
The Mac’s screening process is hit and missA new international art prize in Belfast’s Mac has a mix of great and indifferent materialTue Nov 11 2014 - 01:00
The market where fame and overhyped art meetDalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflatedTue Nov 04 2014 - 01:00
Mairéad McClean wins the inaugural MAC International art prizeMcClean wins the £20,000 prize for her work No More, which incorporates images and sounds from 1970s Northern Ireland re-heard and re-viewed through computer generated tele-visual transmission signalsFri Oct 31 2014 - 13:00
Visual arts: Commercial galleries adapt to rise of the fairsBuyers love art fairs, and Vue is bringing the top Irish galleries together in DublinTue Oct 28 2014 - 01:00
Ghosts of the Civil War brought back to vivid lifeVisual Art: The third in Mick O’Dea’s trilogy on a seminal era of Ireland’s history is perceptiveTue Oct 21 2014 - 01:00
The cinematic eye of Patrick MorrisonUtopia and dystopia loom large in the work of the Cork-born painter, who died last yearMon Oct 20 2014 - 01:00
Peter Gallo’s intensely personal art of chicken bones and ‘skin’Visual Arts: Gallo sets out to offer an alternative way of looking at art historyTue Oct 14 2014 - 01:00
Artist biopics: like watching paint dry?They certainly don’t have to be, and Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner is a shining exampleTue Oct 07 2014 - 01:00
Joe Wilson will bring the mountain to youVisual Art: The Twelve Bens are vividly captured in Wilson’s picture book; plus reviews of Kevin Cosgrove and selected works from the collection of Pat and Antoinette MurphyTue Sept 30 2014 - 01:00
Swings and war games in ClaremorrisAn exhibition in Mayo explores the ways we read and process media imagesTue Sept 23 2014 - 09:43
Dorothy Cross’s all-seeing shark’s eyeBits of shark and a barrister’s wig: there is no mistaking Cross’s workTue Sept 16 2014 - 01:00
Captured moments that are staged in their waysVisual-art reviews: Photographs from a US-based Irish doctor are transforming Imma’s collectionTue Sept 09 2014 - 01:00
The indefinable art of sociable recluse Maria Simonds-GoodingThe Kerry-based artist is a singular figureTue Sept 02 2014 - 01:00
Art school with a difference at Kylemore AbbeyDenis Farrell created the Lodestar school at the stunning Connemara location out of frustration with the drift of art educationThu Aug 28 2014 - 01:00
Clouds in a church and other sound moves at Kilkenny Arts FestivalIn the visual arts strand, there is evidence of joined-up thinking in the inclusion of abstract painter Marilyn Lerner, sonic glass work by Róisín de Buitléar and Karen Donnellan, and Max Streicher’s celestial cloud installationFri Aug 15 2014 - 01:00
Hélio Oiticica: a Brazilian iconoclast who burst out of art’s frameA retrospective of the late artist illuminates his remarkable artistic evolutionFri Jul 25 2014 - 01:00
Galway’s festival of pictures, pop, opera and soundscapesBroad in scope and well presented, the exhibitions of Galway International Arts Festival reward visitors of all stripesSat Jul 19 2014 - 01:00
Flush with meaning: John Kindness finds the epic in the everydayKindness cites James Joyce as his greatest influence, and he shares the writer’s fondness for building layers of meaning. His exhibition in Galway tells Homer’s Odyssey via decorated toilet seats and other mundane objectsThu Jul 17 2014 - 01:00
Delving into the arcane: the legacy of Æ’s hidden muralsA new show has its roots in occult groups, such as Dublin’s Theosophical Society, and celebrates their influence on pop and counter cultureSat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
Sluggish sales, sparse funding and off curators’ radar. Who’d be an artist?It’s not an easy time to emerge from art college. But this year’s graduate exhibitions are full of work by students who deserve further exposureSat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00
People of ‘paradise’ take us behind Sneem’s postcard imageA German artist in the Kerry tourism hot spot canvassed locals for their viewsThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00
Conceptual art: a walk in the parkMerrion Square has a selection of sharp, new, modern sculptures – and one buried secretSat Jun 07 2014 - 01:00
RHA annual show: Forgetting the theory and focusing on the workThe beauty in the RHA annual show is that while among the 560-plus works, you’re unlikely to be ambushed by art theoryThu Jun 05 2014 - 01:00
12 portraits, 12 stories: Colin Davidson’s picture of JerusalemThe Belfast-born painter went to Israel to portray the plurality that a divided city needsSat May 31 2014 - 01:00
Eva Rothschild: What are you looking at?Whether it’s by leaving a group of boys to explore her sculptures or by using a huge range of materials and processes, the Dublin-born artist Eva Rothschild likes to make people question what they’re seeingSat May 24 2014 - 01:00
A fruitful tree for Margaret CorcoranComing across an unusual tree in a Jonathan Fisher painting led Corcoran into a dense thicket of iconographyMon May 05 2014 - 01:02
Wilhelm Sasnal’s dark fairy tales at Lismore CastleThe Polish artist’s strange and cryptic paintings are inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and the illustrations of Andrzej StrumilloMon Apr 28 2014 - 01:00
Agitation, politics and monkeys at Ireland’s art biennialEVA International is a reflection of our ‘current moment’, says curator Bassam El Baroni, with echoes of our not-so-distant future in venues including a post-industrial Limerick spaceMon Apr 21 2014 - 01:00
A tale of two Indias told in barrels and pipes, cow dung and hairSheela Gowda’s work points out the tensions between the modernising, powerhouse economy and an older India steeped in custom and traditionThu Apr 10 2014 - 01:00
‘Limerick School’ calls in some of its star pupilsJohn Shinnors has put together a showcase of creativity at the City of Culture’s school of art and designSat Apr 05 2014 - 01:00
Dorothy Cross: life, death and magic on the Connemara coastThe shore, and things found along it, including the washed-up, broken and dead, feature large in Cross’s exhibitionThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:00
Haroon Mirza: wired for sound, image and spaceThe internationally acclaimed artist’s latest exhibition at Imma is a multimedia marvel that attempts to synthesise all art forms into oneTue Mar 18 2014 - 01:00
New annual Irish portrait prize worth €20,000 announcedHennessy join forces with National Gallery of Ireland in new awardWed Mar 12 2014 - 01:13
Abstract expressionist artist Barrie Cooke dies in Co CarlowPainter was based in Ireland since 1954 and was a leading contemporary artistThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
Artist credits painting with saving him from ‘life of disaster’Eddie Cahill believes he escaped fate similar to that of brother Martin, the ‘General’Fri Feb 28 2014 - 12:42
Forged in Derry: punishment beatings and burning carsWillie Doherty’s latest film installation is a fictional work with its feet in the real worldTue Feb 25 2014 - 01:00
Artists remember beloved colleague Patrick ScottWriter Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’Sat Feb 15 2014 - 09:19
Artist Patrick Scott dies on eve of opening of retrospective exhibition of his workLast October he entered into civil partnership with partner Eric PearceSat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
