Meet the artist who is ‘just itching to make more silk scarves’

Artist Niall Sweeney’s colourful and surreal exhibition, I Am The Cosmos, comprises eight prints and two silk scarves

Tomi Ungerer: Layers of genius in a beautiful, busy mind

The controversial French artist made West Cork his adopted home. His posthumous exhibition of mostly collages at the Centre Culturel Irlandais reveals his maverick brilliance

Oliver Jeffers: Before my son, I wrote my children’s books for myself

Bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers always had ‘a sense of curiosity about the world’. But his perspective changed with the arrival of his son

Sigourney Weaver: ‘I want to do an Irish accent’

The towering star of ‘Alien’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Avatar’ deals with death in ‘A Monster Calls’

Review: Bake!

Paul Curley tuns a birthday party into something more chaotic with more than a hint of moral absurdity

The big draw: an A to Z of great children’s illustrators

Illustrations are a touchstone of children’s literature. Here is a potted guide to the artists behind some of the best-loved stories

Poetry in motion: tapestry tribute to Seamus Heaney

The tribute to Heaney, which was paid for by a group of the poet’s admirers, including Paul Simon and Bono, is bringing colour to Dublin airport

Spike Jonze: “This is me trying to make sense of this insane experience of being alive”

Just in time for Valentine’s Day the ever-surprising Spike Jonze returns with his first film in four years – Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. And it’s the perfect break-up movie. The goofy auteur on ripping out your heart and stomping on it forever ...

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Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

How Tomi Ungerer won over the world

The children’s author and eroticist was vilified in the US and received death threats from French fringe groups before moving to Cork and gaining acceptance