Dorothy Cross: ‘The beautiful is always bizarre ... It is never about trying to shock’
The artist’s best-known work had a lasting impact. The cabinet of curiosities that is her studio offers an insight into the master behind it
Willie Doherty
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Phil Coulter on Bloody Sunday: ‘You just felt the whole city had been violated’
The consequences of that day left a lasting impact on the lives of the people of Derry
Exploring the Border: the first challenge in Derry is to find it
In Donegal and Derry lives are lived and businesses thrive with cross-Border access
Paintings of ferocious engagement
Two Irish artists impress in iconoclastic paintings and a 1916-related video installation
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 1999 – True Nature, by Willie Doherty
The Derry artist’s multiscreen video installation explores the insecurity of emigrant identities and the diaspora’s romanticised views of Ireland
Dark art from being stalked for 25 years
Jane Prophet’s exhibition Trauma, about her personal experiences of being stalked, investigates the nature of obsession and is guided by empathy
A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-up
Bedwyr Williams shows us a broken-down future; while Gypsy Ray’s photographs display great warmth
From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmare
Mullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapes
The Mac’s screening process is hit and miss
A new international art prize in Belfast’s Mac has a mix of great and indifferent material
‘Beautiful failures’: the disturbing power of the art of the Troubles
After years of censorship, controversy and caution the Ulster Museum is staging the first major retrospective of Troubles-related art
Forged in Derry: punishment beatings and burning cars
Willie Doherty’s latest film installation is a fictional work with its feet in the real world
Our cultural highs and lows of 2013
From Pussy Riot to Netflix and Jeff Koons’s €42 million dog, our critics choose their best and worst of the past year
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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