2025 in art: Our 10 favourite Irish exhibitions of the year
Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland, Kunstkammer in Waterford and Lisa Fingleton in Tralee are among the highlights
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Grá review: Art drawn from the Crawford collection celebrates love in all its forms
At Uillinn, in west Co Cork, the artist collective Salt & Pepper and the curator Michael Waldron team up to foreground queer identity and romance
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The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Brian Teeling: ‘Every time I see someone wearing one of my T-shirts, even one of the old ones, it makes me happy’
The multidisciplinary Dublin artist is part of the exhibition Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body, at Photo Museum Ireland and has designed three new T-shirts for Medical Aid for Palestinians
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‘You know those artworks that stop you in your tracks?’ The powerful A Matter of Time opens at the Crawford gallery
The 60 works by 25 Irish and international artists on show in Cork sing together in ways that reveal richly evolving ideas
Museums could lose ‘interesting and important’ pieces due to cultural donations tax cap
Those who donate items get tax relief worth 80 per cent of the value of the heritage item
Climate change protester who threw soup at painting in Cork ‘getting life back on track’
Thomas Shinnick (27), who said he ‘did not kill anyone but climate change will’, making progress in addressing personal difficulties, court hears
IMMA and Crawford Art Gallery boost national collection with €1.5m funding
Works by artists such as Joan Jonas, Daphne Wright and Clare Langan acquired, among many others
It Took a Century: Do we still need an exhibition dedicated to art by women? Sadly, yes
The National Gallery of Ireland’s big new show marks both the RHA’s bicentennial and the 100 years it took to elect a woman academician
Coy goddesses begone: a new wave of art reframes women’s bodies and experiences
Exhibitions around the country banish reclining, bashful, passive creatures to the past
Art to inspire in April
From mammoth sculpture and disappearing places to African artefacts and Diana Copperwhite’s first solo show in 15 years, galleries around the country have much to offer this month
Plans approved for redevelopment of Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery
Cork City Council granted planning for the project on Wednesday, which will see the gallery modernised
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