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Art in Focus: Diane Copperwhite – Sleep of Reason

Art in Focus: Diane Copperwhite – Sleep of Reason

The oil painting is a typical work of artist, if relatively dark in tone

Sat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
Photographic study of mother and child wins Zurich Portrait Prize

Photographic study of mother and child wins Zurich Portrait Prize

Enda Bowe wins €20,000 award as first young portrait prize also goes to a photograph

Tue Oct 08 2019 - 19:10
Meet the Fleabag school of contemporary Irish painting

Meet the Fleabag school of contemporary Irish painting

Amanda Doran, Sheila Rennick’s works at Hillsboro, Aileen Murphy in Temple Bar

Tue Oct 08 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Madame Woof by Sheila Rennick

Art in Focus: Madame Woof by Sheila Rennick

Rennick uses caricaturish levels of distortion in the service of bitingly satirical humour

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Finding our place in the universe: The best visual arts shows to see this week

Finding our place in the universe: The best visual arts shows to see this week

Clodagh Emoe looks the nature of existence; Paul Hallahan muses on perception and time

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colour

Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colour

In A Love of Many Things, Crowley electrifies rural Ireland

Tue Oct 01 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Mariele Neudecker - And Then the World Changed Colour, Breathing Yellow

Art in Focus: Mariele Neudecker - And Then the World Changed Colour, Breathing Yellow

Beautiful vitrine sculptures explore how we try to represent and make sense of nature

Sat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
Dublin’s new creative hub The Complex is a perpetual work in progress

Dublin’s new creative hub The Complex is a perpetual work in progress

Aidan Dunne: Launch exhibition references the history of the Arran St building

Tue Sept 24 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Cillín, Lacken, Mayo by Tommy Weir

Art in Focus: Cillín, Lacken, Mayo by Tommy Weir

Weir’s melancholy, dark-lit photographs excavate the hidden history of landscape

Sat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00

Councils and the housing crisis

Fri Sept 20 2019 - 00:09
US drone strike kills at least 30 farm workers in Afghanistan

US drone strike kills at least 30 farm workers in Afghanistan

Further 40 injured after attack in which labourers and farmers accidentally targeted

Thu Sept 19 2019 - 18:33
Tunisia’s ousted president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exile

Tunisia’s ousted president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exile

Strongman fled in 2011 as people rose in revolt that inspired uprisings across Middle East

Thu Sept 19 2019 - 17:46
An absorption with substance and finish, as antidote to a fast-paced world

An absorption with substance and finish, as antidote to a fast-paced world

Aidan Dunne: Finding a handle on Niamh O’Malley’s new sculptures at the RHA

Tue Sept 17 2019 - 05:00
Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project

Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project

Live installation will be presented at the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival in Cork

Sat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
This week’s best art exhibitions

This week’s best art exhibitions

Shows by Conor O'Grady, Yuko Mohri, Patrick Horan, Robert Ryan and the Irish Architectural Archive's artists in residence

Sat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry Tree

Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry Tree

Nakamura’s visual meditations on memory and living

Sat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
A meeting of minds between the abstract and the representational

A meeting of minds between the abstract and the representational

The two styles are suspicious of each other, but this exhibition gets them talking

Tue Sept 10 2019 - 05:00
A new wave of appreciation for Agnès Varda: This week’s best art exhibits

A new wave of appreciation for Agnès Varda: This week’s best art exhibits

Dorothy Cross at the Kerlin and nighttime cityscapes are among the other highlights

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Strata, an exhibition by Kathy Prendergast

Art in Focus – Strata, an exhibition by Kathy Prendergast

In upcoming exhibition in Scarborough, artist echoes one of her earliest, most celebrated works

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
RHA exhibition shows painting is a broad-brush church

RHA exhibition shows painting is a broad-brush church

The revamped €20,000 Hennessy Craig Award shortlist show is now a biennial affair

Tue Sept 03 2019 - 05:00

Short back and sides

Tue Sept 03 2019 - 00:02
Art in Focus: Untitled (Plate, Grapes, Pear & Jug) by William Scott

Art in Focus: Untitled (Plate, Grapes, Pear & Jug) by William Scott

The elegant simplicity of Scott’s celebrated work emerged from a long apprenticeship

Sat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Vibrant decade of art in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar

Vibrant decade of art in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar

Aidan Dunne: Work by Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch, Michael Flaherty, Anita Groener

Sat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Mandy O’Neill: Compelling portraiture with a Renaissance character

Mandy O’Neill: Compelling portraiture with a Renaissance character

Aidan Dunne: Compact survey exhibition of work by the Zurich Portrait Prize winner

Tue Aug 27 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitions

The week’s best art exhibitions

From Raphael Hynes still lifes to Marja Van Kampen’s colourful paintings on childhood

Sat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Sybil le Brocquy by Melanie le Brocquy

Art in Focus – Sybil le Brocquy by Melanie le Brocquy

Melanie le Brocquy’s sculptures are small in scale but quietly compelling

Sat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish art

Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish art

The exhibition Travels of a Landscape Artist has a nagging sense of what might have been

Tue Aug 20 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Michael Cullen – Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises

Art in Focus: Michael Cullen – Studio Scene with Still Life and Irises

Wicklow artist’s vibrant still life displays a keen appreciation of the daily studio routine – and much else

Sat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions of the week

The best art exhibitions of the week

Scottish colourists, crises of our times and allegorical landscape paintings

Sat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
Sorolla: A master of light comes back out of the shadows

Sorolla: A master of light comes back out of the shadows

An exhibition at the National Gallery aims to revive the Spanish painter’s reputation

Thu Aug 15 2019 - 05:00
Destruction, loss and recovery at Italy’s Monte Cassino

Destruction, loss and recovery at Italy’s Monte Cassino

Aidan Dunne: Steven Nestor’s photo book on the Italian battle site, then and now

Tue Aug 13 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Untitled (barrier) and Shelf (2019) – Niamh O’Malley

Art in Focus: Untitled (barrier) and Shelf (2019) – Niamh O’Malley

Mayo artist’s work prompts us to consider the nuts and bolts – and limits – of perception

Sat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions from around the country

The best art exhibitions from around the country

A range of works to explore in Louth, Roscommon, Cork, Dublin and Belfast

Sat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
The performance artist presenting candid camera as art

The performance artist presenting candid camera as art

This Finnish artist’s performance films interrogate codes and rules of social interactions

Tue Aug 06 2019 - 05:00
The best visual arts shows to see this week

The best visual arts shows to see this week

Including Eilish McCann in Cavan, Cork Printmakers Pop-up and Fenderesky show

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Sean Scully – Inisheer

Art in Focus: Sean Scully – Inisheer

Best known as a painter of stripes Scully’s stark painting vividly evokes a rugged island

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Washing lines and magical hair: Amy Cutler’s modern fairy tales

Washing lines and magical hair: Amy Cutler’s modern fairy tales

The American’s art, on show in Kilkenny, evokes the rules that confine women’s lives

Sat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00

Object lessons in skilful juxtaposition of things

Over three exhibitions, nag’s Mark St John Ellis weaves together East and West, painting and ceramics. The results are nothing less than intriguing

Tue Jul 30 2019 - 05:00
Five best art exhibitions to see this week

Five best art exhibitions to see this week

Ann Quinn paintings, The Stroker, Flux in Flow

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Wilhelmina Weber-Furlong: pioneering American modernist painter

Wilhelmina Weber-Furlong: pioneering American modernist painter

After nearly a century of neglect, her work is on show in a new exhibition in Dublin

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Eva Rothschild with her work Amphi

Art in Focus – Eva Rothschild with her work Amphi

Ireland’s show at the Venice Biennale reflects an uneasy world

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays

Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displays

Galway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venues

Tue Jul 23 2019 - 05:00
Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in Dublin

Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in Dublin

National Gallery show features prints from the 20th century’s most innovative art school

Sat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
Art in Focus: Man Is in Love and Loves What Vanishes by Veronica Bolay

Art in Focus: Man Is in Love and Loves What Vanishes by Veronica Bolay

Painter considers WB Yeats’s dim view of the state of the world 100 years on

Sat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Five art shows to see this week

Five art shows to see this week

Kaye Maahs, the Biophilia hypothesis and sculpture as a response to Brexit

Sat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film

Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film

Visual art reviews: Transcendence in Mayo from David Quinn and pop-up museum of photography

Tue Jul 16 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – A Mummers’ Banquet (detail) by John Kindness

Art in Focus – A Mummers’ Banquet (detail) by John Kindness

Kindness excavates the history of hospitality at Hillsborough Castle

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows

Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts shows

A collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlights

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life world

Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life world

Brian Bourke on repeat and an expressly theatrical Jay Murphy

Tue Jul 09 2019 - 05:00
The best visual art shows this week

The best visual art shows this week

Explore Irish diaspora connections in the Caribbean and nag’s latest work in Dublin

Sat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
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