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Go Overnight

DESPITE the presence of a bright green ceiling and purple chandelier in the bar, and a view across the wide expanse of the River…

Sat Aug 21 2010 - 01:00

Go Overnight

PAST glories can be a double-edged sword

Sat Jul 31 2010 - 01:00

Go Overnight

GEMMA TIPTON says at Bentley's in Dublin

Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00

Art break hotel

INTERVIEW: Bill Kelly is the fourth generation of his family to run Kelly’s Hotel in Rosslare and – among other passions – he…

Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00

Canal chic

LIVING IN VENICE: Buying and renovating an apartment in an 18th-century building in Venice proved challenging for a Dublin family…

Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00

Demolition doesn't erase reality

From Georgian houses on Fitzwilliam Street to the eradication of ghost estates throughout the country, demolition remains a far…

Sat May 01 2010 - 01:00

Go overnight

GEMMA TIPTON stays at Blindgate House in Kinsale Co. Cork

Sat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00

Take in the name of art

When was the last time you walked out of a gallery with a new skirt? The items at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, won’t exactly …

Sat Apr 03 2010 - 01:00

Lenten promises: can anybody last the full 40 days and 40 nights?

What do people give up for Lent, and how many of us have the staying power to see through our resolutions?

Wed Mar 31 2010 - 01:00

Go overnight

GEMMA TIPTON stays at the Kelly's Resort Hotel in Co. Wexford.

Sat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00

Cheer up, it's only art

An artwork you can wear, that will make you smile too – and for only €40 (including postage and packing) – now that’s something…

Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00

Mother of reinvention

ART: Magee’s partner Gary Katz worked on Obama’s campaign videos, and daughter Maeve likes to tell her classmates that ‘Daddy…

Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00

Go overnight

GEMMA TIPTON stays at The Malton, in Killarney

Sat Mar 13 2010 - 00:00

Have you got your Balbriggans on?

Did you know that Balbriggan was once a byword for stockings – just like biro is for ballpoint pens? Queen Victoria wore them…

Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00

A buzz about the garden

How does your garden grow? Not terribly well, if you don’t know what you’re doing

Sat Feb 20 2010 - 00:00

Love them or loathe them, but don't knock them

Why do we love some buildings and hate others? Why have some become icons, while others will forever remain symbols of a hated…

Sat Oct 31 2009 - 00:00

Art after dark at the RHA

If drink, dancing, snacks, videos, live bands, art, and the chance to win a painting by one of Ireland’s leading artists takes…

Sat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00

Breakfast in bed

Sometimes the only thing to mar the perfection of a lazy Saturday morning in bed is having to get up, and go out to get breakfast…

Sat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00

Artist looks to Dark Ages and famous faces

IT COULD be a metaphor for our times and a symbol of hope, or it might seem like blasphemous pornography

Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00

A feast for worldly culture vultures

The Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures doesn’t have to look far for its foreign flavour

Mon Aug 31 2009 - 01:00

Living in the now

THEN + NOW: EVOLVING

Fri Aug 21 2009 - 01:00

CRAFT MONTH NI

Various Artists, various Venues throughout Northern Ireland Until Aug 31 www.craftnidirectory.org 048-90323059

Fri Aug 14 2009 - 01:00

Kilkenny gets into its annual artistic groove

By day, Kilkenny is in thrall to the artists during its Arts Festival, but at night the hens come out to play

Mon Aug 10 2009 - 01:00

Visual Art At Kilkenny Arts Festival

Various artists, various venues Kilkenny Aug 7-16 056-7752175 www.kilkennyarts.ie

Fri Aug 07 2009 - 01:00

Swearing but not a lot of nudity at Kinsale festival

FESTIVAL DIARY: Would Kinsale Arts Week’s more risque events prove too hot to handle for this writer, asks GEMMA TIPTON.

Fri Jul 17 2009 - 01:00

It's music, but not as you know it

“Music,” says Fionnuala Cawkhill, “like all the arts, needs to keep reinventing itself

Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00

Picture clues

Where do artists get their inspiration? How about from crossword clues that could well have come from this paper’s very own Crosaire…

Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00

In tune with nature

Taking time to look at the Irish landscape, it is easy to see why so many artists are compelled to try and paint it

Sat Jun 27 2009 - 01:00

Look out for Indonesia

Could you tell Irish art from French? What about American from Dutch at a glance? The internet and cheap air fares have changed…

Sat Jun 20 2009 - 01:00

A very public art affair

Whether it’s giant roadside balls, steel trees or metal chieftains, how do you plan art that is going to be viewed at 120kph…

Sat Apr 25 2009 - 01:00

Designs on dogs

“There is loads of amazing jewellery design out there,” says Geraldine Murphy of Saba Jewellery

Sat Apr 18 2009 - 01:00

Art for art's sake

Some people look at art with an eye to buy, and some to soak up the beauty, colours and ideas of the work without wrestling with…

Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00

The art of appreciation

PRINTMAKING: One of the great things about the Hugh Lane Gallery is the way it mixes what is new with what we now see as the…

Sat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00

HORSES FOR COURSES

INTERVIEW: Painter Paddy Lennon has found the ideal location for his studio - the stable yard from where, along with his wife…

Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00

The night the artists open their doors

Art is constantly branded - sometimes rightly - as elitist

Tue Sept 16 2008 - 01:00

Have a bite before listening to Beethoven

CONCERTS: IT DOESN'T happen every time but when classical music gets to you you find yourself feeling it from the inside as …

Thu Aug 28 2008 - 01:00

Up front

A business opportunity for delivering witty comebacks and withering putdowns

Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00

Cracking good food in Kinsale

In Kinsale, in glorious sunshine and soaking up the atmosphere of Arts Week (make a note for your diary for next year!), we stopped…

Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00

VENI, VIDI, medici

ART PATRONS: I came, I saw, I bought..

Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00

A design for life

ART AND ACTIVISM: Vannesa Ahuactzin gets designers to think about the bigger picture to help people in the developing world, …

Sat May 17 2008 - 01:00

ART ATTACK

GALLERY GUIDE: London has Soho, Chelsea and its gritty East End; New York has a SoHo and a Chelsea too, as well as TriBeCa, …

Sat May 10 2008 - 01:00

Serenity in the sunshine

YOU SIT UP a little straighter after a conversation with yoga teacher Sinead O'Connor, and you also find yourself feeling a little…

Sat Apr 12 2008 - 01:00

Winner's enclosure

Many of the Irish runners at Cheltenham next week will be sporting saddles and bridles made by Berney's of Kilcullen

Sat Mar 08 2008 - 00:00

Designs for life

If design makes the objects we live with, then art creates the images that lift us up, set somewhere apart from everyday life…

Sat Mar 01 2008 - 00:00

Windows on the world

Taking art out of the gallery is nothing new, but putting it in hospital wards is a smart idea

Sat Oct 27 2007 - 01:00

The Bull-Ox Herding Series (Cruising Masculinity)

THE Bull-Ox Herding Series (Cruising Masculinity) draws on references as diverse as the theorist Walter Benjamin and the Far …

Thu Aug 01 1996 - 01:00
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