The best art shows this week – From modernist abstracts to sculpture, installation, neon and videoRodney Graham at Imma, Dietrich Blodau retrospective and Emma Finucane’s work inspired by nursing and midwiferySat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Ticket Awards 2017: the best art exhibitions of the yearThe National Gallery enjoyed the most momentous year in its historySat Dec 02 2017 - 04:00
1990s Dublin: bleak, bare, cold, mean – and caught on cameraDanish photographer Krass Clement took the pictures in 1991 but he insists not much has changedThu Nov 30 2017 - 05:00
Jack Hickey wins 2017 Hennessy Portrait PrizeHickey wins €15,000 first prize and a commission of €5,000Wed Nov 29 2017 - 09:45
Hennessy Portrait Prize: verdict on shortlisted paintingsDisparate, arresting . . . these works reveal the diversity inherent in the genre of portraitureTue Nov 28 2017 - 08:20
Poussin’s dancers re-imagined for a world where all is not wellArt in focus: ‘Poussinesque – Euphoria’ by Stephen McKennaSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Best visual art this week: Hennessy Portrait Prize 2017 shortlistFamily life in focus in Oonagh Hurley’s pensive works while Claremorris Gallery celebrates 10 yearsFri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00
Magic and myth in the in-between world of the Boyne valleyThe valley’s concentration of significant sites proves fertile ground for seven artistsWed Nov 22 2017 - 05:00
The best art shows this week: a night in a Monaghan pub caught on cameraBicentenary of birth of George Victor Du Noyer’s birth, Gwen O’Dowd prints and two Ballaghs team upSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
The artist who prompts us to ask: what are we missing?Art in Focus: Hannah Brown’s Washford Pyne, 11Sat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Salvator Mundi: ‘A curiously unimpressive composition’It might have cost half a billion dollars but there are still doubts as to the veracity of the record-breaking paintingThu Nov 16 2017 - 05:00
A show that looks at the secret life of plants from BabylonVisual art review: Abbas Akhavan’s show looks half made before it reveals its mysteriesTue Nov 14 2017 - 05:00
Käthe Kollwitz and the art of warArt in focus: the great pacifist German artist’s woodcuts depict the bereaved: mothers, parents, widowsSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
The best art shows this weekTheresa Nanigian: Master of My Universe, Radical Love # Female Lust, Where History Begins, Another Bite of the Cherry, and TroniesSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
The screaming cult makes its way to GalwayArt inspired by the contentious Atlantis primal scream commune in DonegalTue Nov 07 2017 - 05:00
Freud imposed a strict routine on his sitters - even his daughtersArt in focus: The great realist’s work is on show in IMMA’s Freud ProjectSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
November highlights in artGreat opportunity to see representative selections of work from most Irish galleries at the VUE National Contemporary Art Fair at the RHA Gallagher GalleryFri Nov 03 2017 - 05:00
High standard of entries for RDS Visual Arts Awards showKevin O’Kelly chosen as this year’s winner of the prestigious Taylor Art Award for his BA work ‘Something About the Way You Look’Tue Oct 31 2017 - 05:00
Paranormal activity in the Derry airSusan MacWilliam delves into what might be called paranormal subculture and her 33-minute Kathleen has echoes Alfred Hitchcock and Luis BunuelSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
The forgotten artist behind Ireland’s favourite paintingFrederic William Burton disappeared from the cultural radar within a few years of his deathSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
As an artist, William Crozier exuded certainty and self-confidenceThe William Crozier exhibitions at IMMA and Taylor GalleriesTue Oct 24 2017 - 07:29
The magic and mystery behind Ireland’s favourite paintingThe painter of ‘Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ hated the smell of paintSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
Art: the best shows to see this weekWorried about nuclear apocalypse and a hard Border? Orla Barry will wrap you in woolFri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00
Oil paint can imitate anything but John Noel Smith pushes it beyond mimicryAnd in Tableau, Eithne Jordan shows why she needs to paintWed Oct 18 2017 - 05:00
William Crozier and Eithne Jordan: this week’s art highlightsCarborundum prints and Arctic plant pressings are among this week’s exhibitionsFri Oct 13 2017 - 05:00
Charged, haunted and unsettling: Paul Nugent approaches hysteriaThe painter's latest, excellent work is rooted in the psychiatric history of the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in ParisTue Oct 10 2017 - 05:00
Visual Art round-up: From three misadventures in extremis, to denying the demands of heteronormative conventionFri Oct 06 2017 - 05:00
Francisco Goya and ‘the greatest anti-war manifesto in all art’Artist anticipates the approach of war correspondents and photographersThu Oct 05 2017 - 11:40
'The best Chinese is in the North. If they have to stop at the Border it’ll take ages'Border villages seem to have become playthings in the game of Brexit, but locals have more prosaic concerns, according to artist Kate Nolan's latest projectMon Oct 02 2017 - 15:49
The best art exhibitions to catch this weekendWormwood at the Ellis King gallery is worth a shot; as are Anne Madden’s observations of life and death at Taylor GalleriesThu Jul 06 2017 - 11:00
Groups of garments go local and globalPatricia Cronin’s installation ‘Shrine for Girls’ and a new film, ‘Leisure with Dignity’, by Anne Maree BarryTue Jun 27 2017 - 06:00
Fine art graduates fuse forces and flex their musselsIt's a vintage year for master’s graduates in fine art, whose work has a contemporary edgeTue Jun 20 2017 - 06:00
Give me a crash course in: social welfare for artistsMost artists subsist on extremely low incomes, usually dependent on several sourcesSat Jun 17 2017 - 06:00
The next generation of artists: the 2017 graduate showsA significant number of graduates show diverse, thoughtful bodies of work that show their knowledge of the history of artTue Jun 13 2017 - 06:00
Forget the romance: Vermeer was a modern artistIt's high time the artist was rescued from the Hollywood treatment in the film Girl with a Pearl EarringSat Jun 10 2017 - 05:00
Anne Madden’s odyssey from the labyrinth to the heavensAnne Madden: Colours of the Wind - Ariadne’s Thread review: The Greek heroine Ariadne is the starting point for journey into colour and spaceTue Jun 06 2017 - 06:00
The Book of Kells is not the only rare Irish manuscript in townFour newly restored early Irish illuminated manuscripts go on display today in Trinity CollegeThu Jun 01 2017 - 05:00
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured showOpen submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprisesTue May 30 2017 - 06:00
Minimalism in the Dutch Golden Age at the KerlinNew shows by Paul Winstanley, Don Cronin and Margaret O’Brien reviewedTue May 23 2017 - 06:00
What’s hidden in the landscape? Anthrax, bombs and cancerBetween Northern Ireland and Scotland, some million tons of munitions lie on the seabedTue May 16 2017 - 06:00
Margaret Clarke's portrait work steps out of the stained glass shadowsMargaret Clarke was a key figure in Irish art and a new show illustrates how her portraits deserve greater recognition beyond her partnership with Harry ClarkeTue May 09 2017 - 06:00
Painter Stephen McKenna dies at home in Co CarlowOnce asked if he considered himself English, Irish or European, he replied simply: ‘Yes’Fri May 05 2017 - 19:28
Kilkenny photographer Richard Mosse wins world-leading Prix Pictet prizeIrish artist announced as winner by Kofi Annan for series Heat MapsThu May 04 2017 - 19:45
Small Town Portraits: poignant pictures of 1950s IrelandDennis Dinneen, publican, taxi driver and photographer, captured an Ireland that has now largely disappearedTue May 02 2017 - 06:00
Life and death, night and day: the world of Mark SwordsThe artist has created a world that is more than the sum of its partsTue Apr 25 2017 - 06:00
Painter (88) to lose €17,000 as Aosdána changes membership rulesPatrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipendSat Apr 22 2017 - 02:00
An alternative history of art of the last centuryExhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in artTue Apr 18 2017 - 06:00
The management consultant who took her own advice and made the move into artTheresa Nanigian used to tell clients "think of yourself 10 years hence, and then work backwards”. And eventually she had to heed itTue Apr 11 2017 - 06:00
Eva International curator: ‘Art fairs have hijacked the system’Inti Guerrero sees biennials as a more worthwhile medium for artWed Apr 05 2017 - 05:00
