Filly that cost just €9,500 going for €150,000 first prize in inaugural EBF Ballyhane Stakes

Dowdeswell’s delphiniums are the ones to pick – a hybrid all the way from New Zealand

Many of the world’s great museums are now available on screen, but what exactly do you get for your click?

Only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is ‘unmistakably’ his work

Renting artwork can be tax efficient for new apartment developments and commercial offices and it's a great way for gallery owners to showcase well-known artists

‘You see everyone flying by on a bike - men in suits, women in stilettos, musicians with a double bass on their backs’

AstroLands will stage space camps and workshops

Review: Lucy Kirkwood’s miniseries is an artful exploration of the difference between image and meaning

Gerry Concannon stepped back from the day-to-day running of Mayo software business CBE but he remains as busy as ever

Review: The film makes a genuine effort to engage with the artist’s mental torments

Go dark inside: an artist and a landscape designers solution when their house had very little natural light

Bank says ex-chief executive met with man at heart of fraud scandal on a second occasion

Here are 10 things to do in one of America’s most celebrated and interesting destinations

Ten highlights from the summer auctions

From Enda Walsh’s ‘Bathroom’ to Voyager’s deep space odyssey, there’s plenty to ponder

So why do so many gardeners avoid the colour in garden planting schemes?

The lack of attention given to photography is dangerous and puts the discipline at risk

Artworks taken from museum in Amsterdam 14 years ago recovered after tipoff

Buyers, sellers of art use same hidden corners of global finance as dictators and fraudsters

Details of Rybolovlev divorce struggle, and many others, contained in secret files

From acting, casting and designing to writing comedy, novels and poetry, these women’s artistic endeavours have a wide influence

Extreme pride of engineers in something being well designed made me reflect on our approach to educating student engineers and innovators

Artworks are like people: you don’t have to like all of them. The best buying tip is to to trust your gut instincts

Developer and hotelier Paddy McKillen has turned an estate on 600 acres in the picturesque south of France into a biodynamic vineyard, and a unique art and architecture project in which well-known artists and sculptors are given creative rein

Marketing is moving away from the campaigns the ‘Mad Men’ ad men would have commanded

In Limerick School of Art and Design, they’re busy pulling clothes apart and reimagining them in a competely different ways

Monet, Giacometti, Rothko and Lichtenstein among the big names making record prices

The glorious pain of love unreturned isn’t all bad: it can be a creative catalyst and a part of growing up, as everyone from WB Yeats to fans of One Direction have discovered

Fionn Devenport rounds up the latest travel news from scross the globe

Its theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steady

Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated

‘Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies’ one of few works sold in artist’s lifetime

Top London auction houses report record sales for modern and impressionist art

‘Sunset at Montmajour’ had been owned by Norwegian man who kept it in his attic

Micheal Farrell, one of the greatest Irish artists of his generation, is well served by a new show

Born in cool northern France, the artist decided to call Nice home after realising the difference its light could make to his work. Now the city is celebrating him

A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market

An exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves diverge