Zurich Portrait Prize 2020: Winners announced by National Gallery of Ireland
Coronavirus-themed works win both main prizes in national portrait competition
The art work that sums up the ‘complete and absolute apocalyptic confusion’ of Brexit
Rita’s Duffy’s work based on the Raft of the Medusa depicts a people cast adrift by Brexit
‘The ugliest painting to come to auction for quite some time’
Art critic Eamonn Mallie is selling some of his art collection including an unattractive portrait of Van Morrison
The best art shows to spend time with this week
Chain reactions and knitting the Border, what's on in the arts this week
We’re all deeply weird and 'normal' can be a crushing concept
The visual art at this year's Galway International Arts Festival has lots of odd junctures, strange characters and weird journeys
Why are women artists hard to find in our ‘boy crazy’ museums and galleries?
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
Away with the fairies: Irish folklore is alive and weird
You won’t find Michael Fortune’s colourful explorations of folklore in an art gallery – try the parish hall, handball alley or retirement home
Click for your art in 2017 but be discerning
Culture review 2016: It was a year of madness, brilliant takes on 1916 and continuing State starvation
Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’
Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture
1916 souvenirs and artworks you can eat
Artist Rita Duffy’s shop in Dublin is selling mementoes of the 1916 Centenary for €5
Laundered diesel and Black and Tan boot polish: the Rising gets an artful injection of mischief
Artist Rita Duffy’s send-up of the Rising and Irish culture is a refreshing antidote to the seriousness of the centenary commemorations
Irish culture in Paris: ‘I’m not a diplomat. My take is personal’
In 2013 Nora Hickey M’Sichili got her dream job of running the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the French capital. Have recent events changed the tone?
Conflict and resolution key themes in projects for 1916 Rising
Nine projects picked by Arts Council include music, dance, film and sound installations
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novel
Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards
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