ArtSculptor Melanie le Brocquy tends to work on a small scale and in a quiet style, which may partly account for the fact that her…Sat Jun 26 1999 - 01:00
Dun Laoghaire's milestonesIt's said that at Kokoschka's summer school for painters in Salzburg back in the 1950s, the ultimate disparagement was for the…Wed Jun 23 1999 - 01:00
ArtScottish artist Callum Innes won the £26,000 NatWest Art Prize in 1998 and is one of the few painters to have been short-listed…Sat Jun 19 1999 - 01:00
The art of the working manEigse Carlow usually manages to come up with something striking in its exhibitions programme at St Patrick's College and this…Sat Jun 12 1999 - 01:00
Spatial correspondentChung Eun-Mo's fine paintings, at the Kerlin Gallery, are abstract in an almost archetypal, classical senseWed Jun 09 1999 - 01:00
Sexual tourist?One of the National Gallery of Ireland's prize possessions, Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ is currently on loan to Washington…Sat Jun 05 1999 - 01:00
Season of the college exhibitionsFor those aiming to find work by tomorrow's art stars at bargain prices, art school fine art diploma and degree exhibitions used…Sat Jun 05 1999 - 01:00
Heralds of a bright futureThe first of the year's annual Degree and Diploma exhibitions, the NCAD's, opens next Sunday and, for anyone with an interest…Wed Jun 02 1999 - 01:00
Putting a high price on `the missing'In the domain of Irish art history, the work of painter Frank O'Meara looks like a blue chip investmentSat May 29 1999 - 01:00
Limerick's mini-marathonJust to get around last year's EV+A was a marathon undertakingThu May 27 1999 - 01:00
ArtThis year's EV+A, which opens today at 10 venues in Limerick, is billed as EV+A Reduced, presumably to distinguish it from last…Sat May 22 1999 - 01:00
Portraits of prisonersThree distinct though related segments make up Brian Maguire's exhibition at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in BelfastWed May 19 1999 - 01:00
Black Sea, must seeFrom Monday, we can enjoy a rare chance to see the work of a cross-section of contemporary Bulgarian artists at Dublin Castle…Sat May 15 1999 - 01:00
Which one is the real Kerry?Padraig Murphy's show at the Gallery of Photography, under the title Anywhere Please! "looks at the practice and effects of tourism…Wed May 12 1999 - 01:00
On moral camouflage for crimeIt doesn't take much to realise the kind of person who kills people for money is the kind of person you'd be better off never…Wed May 05 1999 - 01:00
Still and moving imagesFrom the beginning, the work of photographer and film-maker Clare Langan has either sought to transport us to other worlds, or…Sat May 01 1999 - 01:00
ArtNever one to do things by halves, Ghost Ship sculptor Dorothy Cross has sited her latest work, Chiasm, in twin handball alleys…Sat May 01 1999 - 01:00
On the edge of campMatthew Barney established his reputation with a video installation at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York in 1991Wed Apr 28 1999 - 01:00
ArtFar from being regarded as an impertinent intruder, the camera has worked its way into the very heart of fine art practiceSat Apr 24 1999 - 01:00
Matisse's benefactorsRumour has it that when Allis Helleland, the director of Copenhagen's State Art Museum, was planning the current Matisse exhibition…Sat Apr 24 1999 - 01:00
The Academy looks to youthAppropriately, two of Barry Flanagan's big bronze Hares, brandishing drums, guard the entrance to this year's RHA Annual Exhibition…Wed Apr 21 1999 - 01:00
Black at Green on RedExpect the unexpected tonight at the Green on Red Gallery when Black Market, an informal affiliation of leading performance artists…Sat Apr 17 1999 - 01:00
Seaweed sights and soundsTidal Erotics, the collaborative exhibition by sculptor Vivienne Roche and composer John Buckley at the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery…Wed Apr 14 1999 - 01:00
Charts for a way forwardOn the face of it, printmaking is a two-dimensional business: the production of flat, multiple impressions of a given imageWed Apr 07 1999 - 01:00
Minimalism and volcanoesWriting about some key works of the Minimalist movement, Frank Stella's monochromatic stripe paintings, in the 1960s, critic …Wed Mar 31 1999 - 01:00
A gathering of womenFirst, the title. There is nothing wrong with it in terms of its descriptive accuracy, but it does sound dull - worthy but dull…Wed Mar 17 1999 - 00:00
The silence of the lambNatural history, cookery and travel are all tried and trusted television staples, and all grist to the mill for a half-dozen …Wed Mar 10 1999 - 00:00
A tale of four citiesFirst Look at the RHA Gallagher Gallery is just that: director Patrick Murphy's first look around at the work of young artists…Wed Mar 03 1999 - 00:00
The importance of being ErnstIt's well known that artists are shameless self-mythologisers, but even so Max Ernst's account of his beginnings is pretty much…Wed Feb 24 1999 - 00:00
Jolley grimA blurred figure tumbles pell-mell down a deep, narrow stairwell, bouncing violently against the bannistersSat Feb 20 1999 - 00:00
Taking on the Joyce mythologyFirst performed in 1974, Tom Stoppard's Travesties is a dazzling comedy that hinges on the simultaneous presence in a Zurich …Wed Feb 17 1999 - 00:00
Pictures and portraitsPerhaps prompted by the recent acquisition of Mark Shields' portrait of Mary and Nicholas Robinson, currently on view in the …Thu Feb 11 1999 - 00:00
Green and ghostly presence across waters of the bayAs darkness fell yesterday, the President, Mrs Mary McAleese, launched a ghost ship at Dun Laoghaire HarbourThu Feb 04 1999 - 00:00
In search of boundless territoriesDesolate expanses of conifer plantation, cloudy mountain vistas, evening skies reflected darkly in still water: Elizabeth Magill…Wed Feb 03 1999 - 00:00
After the RainEarly this year, the Dublin art scene suffered a loss when Jo Rain passed away quietly in Anglesea StreetWed Jan 27 1999 - 00:00
Religious art in an age of scepticismMuch of the greatest art of the Western world is religious, but with the age of modernity the decline in religious art reflects…Wed Jan 20 1999 - 00:00
New takes on familiar imagesThe human presence has always been at the centre of Louis le Brocquy's work, so it is appropriate that a major exhibition of …Tue Jan 12 1999 - 00:00
Two Irish artists on list of four for Glen Dimplex awardThe four artists short-listed for this year's £15,000 Glen Dimplex Artist's Award have been namedThu Jan 07 1999 - 00:00
Culture vulture '99The National Gallery of Ireland has an unrivalled collection of the work of Jack B. YeatsSat Jan 02 1999 - 00:00
Robert Capa: the true pictureIn Ruth Orkin's photograph of him, Robert Capa looks like a real charmer, with an easy, genuine smile, but he regards the lens…Wed Dec 23 1998 - 00:00
Art lessonsIt was a very good year for one-person exhibitions. In fact, the general pace and standard were exceptionalWed Dec 16 1998 - 00:00
What's it all about?If painting ever became a crime, and they rounded up all the usual suspects, they wouldn't get much out of Richard GormanWed Dec 09 1998 - 00:00
Saatchi heralds the New Neurotic RealistsWhatever became of the Old Neurotic Realists? That is one the question begged by Charles Saatchi's label for a group of artists…Wed Dec 02 1998 - 00:00
Matters of life and deathBill Viola's Nantes Triptych sounds formidable in outlineWed Nov 25 1998 - 00:00
Images of nothingTalk to Me is an interesting title for Oliver Comerford's exhibition at the Hallward Gallery, because the paintings for the most…Wed Nov 11 1998 - 00:00
visual artYoko Ono - Have You Seen the Horizon Lately?, Ormeau Baths Gallery, November 12th-29thSat Nov 07 1998 - 00:00
Gloomy young EuropeansGerminations X is the latest in a series of annual exhibitions arising from a programme of projects for young European artists…Tue Nov 03 1998 - 00:00
Northern lightsThe best known contemporary Danish artist is undoubtedly painter and sculptor, Per KirkebyWed Oct 28 1998 - 00:00
