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Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell

Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell

Visual Art: An exhibition from the De Pont museum in Amsterdam comes to Dublin

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 05:00
Five of the best art shows to see this week

Five of the best art shows to see this week

Works from Dan Graham, Maureen O’ Neill, Maureen O’ Connor and Kelvin Mann

Sat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine Owens

Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine Owens

Fusing traditional media and recent technology, Owens reflects on constancy in a changing world

Sat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Video thrills on the electronic super highways

Video thrills on the electronic super highways

In 'A Visibility Matrix', Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne search for a path out of the online video jungle

Tue Jul 10 2018 - 05:00
Roderic O’Conor: Ireland’s great forgotten painter

Roderic O’Conor: Ireland’s great forgotten painter

A spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the post-impressionist

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – At Mirrored River

Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – At Mirrored River

Lives and dreams in a midlands town captured in beautiful photographs

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Five art shows to see this week

Five art shows to see this week

Sir Sidney Nolan paitings related to his family links with Ireland on show in the Burren

Sat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
On a Pedestal: contemporary takes on the classical portrait bust

On a Pedestal: contemporary takes on the classical portrait bust

A thoughtful exhibition at the Long Gallery in Castletown House, Kildare

Tue Jul 03 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Self-portrait at Noon, Marlene Dumas

Art in Focus: Self-portrait at Noon, Marlene Dumas

A powerful contemporary painter of the human condition

Sat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Five must-see visual art exhibitions this week

Five must-see visual art exhibitions this week

Face to Face, Life at the Edges, View from Donegal, School of Looking and 6am

Sat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded

The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded

Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth

Tue Jun 26 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife

Art in Focus: Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife

We have ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. In the 1850s they had Maclise and his boundless imagination

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Four essential visual art exhibitions to see in Ireland this week

Four essential visual art exhibitions to see in Ireland this week

Traveller Collection, Bower, Stampa Ora and Still.Life, and a portrait prize you can enter

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show

Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable show

Summer exhibitions invite us to consider our relationship to the land around us

Tue Jun 19 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Mick O’Dea – Robert Pinsky

Art in Focus: Mick O’Dea – Robert Pinsky

The artist painted the poet’s portrait during his Kilkenny Arts Festival residency

Sat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Who’s afraid of the big, bad, deeply symbolic ‘Wolf’?

Who’s afraid of the big, bad, deeply symbolic ‘Wolf’?

Wolves are a primal force in the popular imagination, and this exhibition by José María Yagüe Manzanares explores the intersection between the human and lupine worlds

Tue Jun 12 2018 - 05:00
Must-see visual art exhibitions: Kilkenny cuts, witches and star students

Must-see visual art exhibitions: Kilkenny cuts, witches and star students

Round-up of the best shows includes Mick O’Dea portraits and work by Jesse Jones

Sat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Self Portrait, New York’ by John Butler Yeats

Art in Focus: ‘Self Portrait, New York’ by John Butler Yeats

The father of some of Ireland’s most exceptional creative talents finds his own artistic voice

Sat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Seán McSweeney: An artist who gave us the whole world

Seán McSweeney: An artist who gave us the whole world

The painter was an immensely popular and generous figure, as well as a singular talent

Sun Jun 03 2018 - 19:20
The week’s visual arts highlights

The week’s visual arts highlights

Work by Deirdre Burke, Gerry Blake, Hannah Fitz and more

Sat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Beginning of Darkness’ (oil on linen) by Martin Gale

Art in Focus: ‘Beginning of Darkness’ (oil on linen) by Martin Gale

The painting eloquently sums up a decisive experience for generations of Irish people

Sat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Visual Art: Bloodlines, Aspect and Hiraeth review

Visual Art: Bloodlines, Aspect and Hiraeth review

Three exhibitions offer different approaches to landscape

Wed May 16 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Kevin Cosgrove – Cabin

Art in Focus: Kevin Cosgrove – Cabin

Cosgrove seems drawn to workshops as spaces of industry, reflection and possibility. Out of their jumble emerges coherence

Sat May 12 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual art highlights

This week’s visual art highlights

Sarah Walker’s tapestries, Mary Burke’s Laois and Richard Gorman in Mayo

Sat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Drawing Dublin: Dirty, delightful, disconcerting old town

Drawing Dublin: Dirty, delightful, disconcerting old town

Drawing Dublin, at the National Gallery of Ireland, thoughtfully conveys the essence of the city in terms of place and personality

Tue May 08 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual art highlights

This week’s visual art highlights

Thomas Brezing, Clare Gallagher and contemporary art from Germany

Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: James Malton – St Catherine’s, Thomas Street, Dublin

Art in Focus: James Malton – St Catherine’s, Thomas Street, Dublin

The artist’s city-landmark watercolours are centre stage at the National Gallery of Ireland

Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Once upon a time in the midlands

Once upon a time in the midlands

Three contemporary photographers offer differing perspectives on the midlands

Tue May 01 2018 - 05:00
PhotoIreland Festival 2018: visually engaging with the abortion debate

PhotoIreland Festival 2018: visually engaging with the abortion debate

Two exhibitions at this year’s festival, from May 1st-31st, address the referendum on the Eighth, while others look at life from different social and personal perspectives

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Visual arts highlights of the week

Visual arts highlights of the week

An evening of words and music with Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed at The Model, Pugin Revisited at the IAA, and the Doorway Gallery focuses on the magnificence of horses

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ORDER – a wake-up call by Democracia

Art in Focus: ORDER – a wake-up call by Democracia

Spanish artistic collective Democracia take on capitalism and its evils in their latest work, with the help of the Black Panthers and a Dublin youth choir

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Agnieszka Polska brings impotent guns and disembodied lips to Dublin

Agnieszka Polska brings impotent guns and disembodied lips to Dublin

The Polish artist brings two series of videos to Project. Wit, ingenuity and stories are at their core

Tue Apr 24 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Kenneth O’Halloran – The Handball Alley, Monaghan Town

Art in Focus: Kenneth O’Halloran – The Handball Alley, Monaghan Town

These typological photographs are among the most significant artistic interpretations of the Irish landscape of our time

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual arts highlights

This week’s visual arts highlights

EVA International looks at Ireland then and now; Michael Cullen revisits Irish mythology

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Affirming the beauty of a supercomputer

Affirming the beauty of a supercomputer

Martina O’Brien’s two-channel video piece, ‘Loop Topology’, alludes to both aspects of the analytical enterprise, collecting the day-by-day numbers and seeing what they say, or hint at

Wed Apr 18 2018 - 05:00
Art in focus: David Trimble by Amanda Dunsmore

Art in focus: David Trimble by Amanda Dunsmore

‘Keeper ‘ is representative of a growing phenomenon whereby artists address, explore and use archives as a primary material

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
The best visual art shows and exhibitions this week

The best visual art shows and exhibitions this week

From the Burren College of Art to the Digital Hub and Roscommon Arts Centre

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Frank Bowling: An exemplary artist for our time

Frank Bowling: An exemplary artist for our time

Bowling railed against the ‘black art’ label and his work – now gathered in a retrospective – cannot be penned in

Tue Apr 10 2018 - 05:00
Kenneth O’Halloran’s modern ruins, Alice Maher’s woodcuts and watercolours: the best art shows this week

Kenneth O’Halloran’s modern ruins, Alice Maher’s woodcuts and watercolours: the best art shows this week

Kenneth O’Halloran exhibition centres on his finest project to date, the superb 'The Handball Alley' series

Mon Apr 09 2018 - 11:45
Art in Focus: ‘Untitled, 2018’ by Jan Pleitner

Art in Focus: ‘Untitled, 2018’ by Jan Pleitner

Young German’s work ‘has a lot in common with that of Caravaggio’

Sat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Metaphors of power: Infrastructure, cultural identity and the Irish State

Metaphors of power: Infrastructure, cultural identity and the Irish State

Opening next week, Limerick’s 38th EVA International takes as its starting point the nation-building construction of the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station

Sat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Vanessa Donoso Lopez’s venture into the epic

Vanessa Donoso Lopez’s venture into the epic

Keith Wilson and Claire Curneen two interwoven solo shows that work very well together

Tue Apr 03 2018 - 05:00
Turner nominee tuned to video

Turner nominee tuned to video

Art in Focus: ‘West Hinder’, video still, Elizabeth Price

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
A hint of the sublime: the best in this week’s art shows

A hint of the sublime: the best in this week’s art shows

Art highlights: Anne Korff, Amelia Stein, Joseph Keating and more

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Art and architecture: from Dorothy Smith’s drawings to Liliane Lijn’s sharp eye

Art and architecture: from Dorothy Smith’s drawings to Liliane Lijn’s sharp eye

‘I don’t like to brag about it. It was Hitler-time . . . and I somehow survived’

Tue Mar 27 2018 - 05:00
Joe Hanly’s upturned tree, Darn Thorn’s shrine to mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: the best art exhibitions this week

Joe Hanly’s upturned tree, Darn Thorn’s shrine to mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: the best art exhibitions this week

Marianne Slevin uses abandoned bank statements to explore ideas of trust

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Frank Bowling – Australia to Africa, 1971

Art in Focus: Frank Bowling – Australia to Africa, 1971

Major retrospective of the Caribbean artist’s work – including his ‘Map’ paintings – is at IMMA

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Radical transformations of the gallery space

Radical transformations of the gallery space

Tamara Henderson’s evolving show goes big; and Bassam Al Sabah merges his own family into a fictional wallpaper

Wed Mar 21 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1620) by Il Guercino

Art in Focus – Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1620) by Il Guercino

More than any other individual, he was responsible for rehabilitating the reputation of 17th-century Italian Baroque painting

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Fake at Science Gallery: the best visual art shows this week

Fake at Science Gallery: the best visual art shows this week

Siobhán McDonald evokes natural change; the Science Gallery looks at the nature of fakery

Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
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