Art in Focus: Kathy Tynan – Magic WordsNew work from a rarity in contemporary art world – a representational painterSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
John Baldessari: An American artist’s Burren adventureThe late conceptual artist had a role in the development of Burren College of ArtTue Jan 28 2020 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – Cybil McCaddy with Daughter LuluPart of photographer’s Clapton Blossoms project it won the Zurich Portrait PrizeSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
When nature is commodified: this week’s visual arts highlightsWork by Louise Butler, Padraic Barrett, Orla O’Byrne, Sheila Naughton, Miriam O’ConnorSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
Illuminating perspective on rural life in contemporary IrelandAidan Dunne: Pastures is a compact show of several quite outstanding exhibitsTue Jan 21 2020 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Jaki Irvine – Ack Ro’Neon installation – one of 28 – based on Neil Diamond’s song Cracklin’ RosieSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Upcoming exhibit echos the lonely journeys of fathers burying their unbaptised babiesOther upcoming exhibits explore why it’s okay to be lazy and homogenization of rural IrelandSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Sean Lynch’s A Murmur, Repeated: Exploring Stonehenge as a cultural phenomenonIrish bardic protagonist finds himself occupying ultra commodified landscape of late capitalist EnglandTue Jan 14 2020 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Jack B Yeats – Two TravellersThe painting of two figures in a dramatic landscape shows the artist pushing boundariesSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Imagination, memory and childhood: This week’s visual arts highlightsWorks by Clifford Collie, Cara Farnan, Bernadette Burns and Sharon KellySat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Tai Shani’s Tragodía tells of life, death and intense emotional bondsTurner Prize-winner mixes virtual reality, sculptural installation and the spoken wordTue Jan 07 2020 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions: collaborations and celebrationsGroup shows including Donegal exhibition marking life of Derry writer Kathleen CoyleSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Daphne Wright - Is everyone ok?A video centred on a single character gives an insight into people and the codes we live withinSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
The week’s best exhibitions: From Glass Biennale to Tai ShaniPlus: Contemporary American art in Belfast and the Dún Laoghaire Open ExhibitionSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Beech Trees at Norbury Park by JMW Turner (1775-1851)This beautifully observed watercolour is typical of the artist’s early workSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: The Pit and the Pendulum – Harry Clarke‘Admirable and terrible’ illustration typical of work done by famed stained glass designerSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions: Winter shows and stocking fillersHelen Hooker O’Malley in Limerick, Taoiseach’s Residence Architecture Competition in DublinSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
A year in the Pallas yields rich harvest of visual arts treasuresVisual Arts: Going inside the exhibition space, it’s a Tardis-like experienceTue Dec 17 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Charles Harper – Randomised HeadsHarper has no problem coaxing subtle nuances of tone and colour from acrylic, and its crispness suits his brisk, darting techniqueSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions: winter showsAlso: Ed Miliano and Michael HannaSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
Visual currency: Memorable moments in 20th century photographyThe National Gallery of Ireland is showcasing Bank of America’s pioneering collectionSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
Michael Robinson’s RHA exhibition feels like the futureAidan Dunne: Artist stitches together pieces of narrative fabric from vast mass of filmTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Hughie O’Donoghue – House Number 8The mixed media work is part of a collaborative project with poet Simon ArmitageSat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions: From Suan Mannion to Gabhann DunneElaine Grainger in Dublin, Dorje de Burgh in Bray, and Greenlane’s Christmas ShowSat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
Guggi: ‘I know I’ve allowed opportunities to pass’At 60, the artist is keen to follow up on everything. He rues not always having done soSat Dec 07 2019 - 00:00
Futures exhibition: Irish art in very good handsThere isn’t a weak note in this showcase of young Irish-based artists’ workTue Dec 03 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Maria Loboda – Hearing Otherworldly MusicA combination of the prosaic and decorative with a more sinister undercurrent is typical of the artist’s workSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions: From Anna Daucikova to KCATPlus: Elizabeth O’Kane and Julie Ann Haines in Dublin; and printmaking in KilcockSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
Bulldozing gracefully through a 21st-century landscapeKurt Oppermann’s flat colour arrangements evoke charts, graphs and mapsTue Nov 26 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Hiberno God by Dermot SeymourAnimals have played a central role in the artist’s workSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
The best visual art exhibitions to see you through to the New YearThere’s exhibitions a plenty across the country from Mayo to DublinSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
Thirty years of Tallaght: Pete Smyth’s view from the insideSmyth never romanticises or sentimentalises Tallaght. Nor does he judge or deride itTue Nov 19 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Angela Gilmour – DansoyView from the Arctic, an otherworldly landscape of amazing beautySat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
Men in black in a metaphysical mystery: this week’s visual arts highlightsJohn Boyd’s paintings evoke Magritte; also, the diverse creative life of Derek JarmanSat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
National Gallery of Ireland unveils 2020 shows on Mondrian, Shaw and equestrianismNGI also announces special exhibition on the Spanish Golden Age painter MurilloThu Nov 14 2019 - 10:18
Playful experiments on the serious business of dataAidan Dunne: Kennedy Browne’s guide to a digital, neoliberal worldTue Nov 12 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Vicky Langan and Maximilian Le Cain – Personal GrowthChallenging and intriguing: new experimental Super 8 film from longtime collaboratorsSat Nov 09 2019 - 05:00
Infinite possibilities: This week’s best visual arts showsPaul Hughes explores ‘massive untethered galaxies of light’ at the Stone Step GallerySat Nov 09 2019 - 05:00
Nature up close and far awayAidan Dunne: Gwen O’Dowd’s powerful, inky expanses and Yanny Petters's exemplary botanical watercoloursTue Nov 05 2019 - 05:00
The best visual art shows this weekShows from Kennedy Browne, Vanya Lambrecht Ward and Anthony ScottSat Nov 02 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Portrait by AchesThe visual information in these pixilated images are compressed to the point of abstractionSat Nov 02 2019 - 05:00
Bone in Skin on: An enthralling exhibition that needs to be seen in the roundThe environment Xavier Theunis has created is just as much a part of the workTue Oct 29 2019 - 05:00
The best visual art shows this weekShows from Maud Cotter, Gwen O’Dowd, Ronnie Hughes and Norman AckroydSat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Masterson’s Lane (Children and Washing) by Nevill JohnsonJohnson’s Dublin work included in the first photography exhibition at National GallerySat Oct 26 2019 - 05:00
Simulacra: Carving out unique passageways into the pastJason Ellis finds timeless resonances in classical sculptures in his new exhibitionTue Oct 22 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Therapy Notebook 1, pp. 1-6 by Eoin McHughSketchbook drawings take spirit of simplified Toki Pona language and apply it to imagesSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
Visual art round-up: The best exhibitions to see this weekXavier Theunis, Camille Souter, Jason Ellis and moreSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth: rich and elaborate biographyWilliam Feaver draws on hours of interviews to chart details of painter’s life before fameTue Oct 15 2019 - 06:00
Oblique projections from the nuclear ageResearch collective 13BC delve into the intricacies of the human fallout from nuclear warfareTue Oct 15 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Diane Copperwhite – Sleep of ReasonThe oil painting is a typical work of artist, if relatively dark in toneSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
