The art of being humanVisual Arts Just before Christmas in 1994, three potholers, including Jean-Marie Chauvet, were checking out a cave near Avignon…Sat May 10 2003 - 01:00
A strange, but compelling sound worldThere's nothing obvious about The Pleasure Of Compulsive Self-Destruction, which had its first public performance at St Patrick…Wed Apr 09 2003 - 01:00
See the world in black and whiteVISUAL ARTS: Greyscale/CMYK , RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, until April 27th (01-6612558)Wed Mar 26 2003 - 00:00
Landscapes without ironyVISUAL ARTS: The photographs that make up Carmel Cleary's exhibition Passage, at the Garter Lane Arts Centre, are beautiful …Wed Mar 19 2003 - 00:00
Like running into the Marx BrothersREVIEWED: Permaculture , Project, Dublin, until March 22nd (1850-260027)Wed Feb 19 2003 - 00:00
A new Arcadia near BagenalstownStephen McKenna's exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery depicts a rural Ireland almost excessive in its accumulation of benign…Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:00
Eight artistic decades of fresh and tough aestheticsA visit to Co Mayo in 1994 proved a turning point in the life of artist Nancy Wynne-Jones, writes Aidan DunneMon Jan 06 2003 - 00:00
An initiation into occult symbolismVISUAL ARTS: Reviewed: José Bedia, RHA Ely Place, Dublin, until January 5th (tel: 01-6612558);Friendship of the Peoples, Goshka…Mon Dec 30 2002 - 00:00
Obsession pursued with delicacyVISUAL ARTS: Miroslaw Balka, whose exhibition, dig dug dug, is at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, has rapidly acquired the reputation…Fri Dec 20 2002 - 00:00
The Catalan at KilmainhamEnrique Juncosa, the new director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, is a Catalan with an impressive pedigreeTue Nov 12 2002 - 00:00
Museum appoints Spanish directorThe Irish Museum of Modern Art follows in the footsteps of London's Tate Modern when it announces the appointment of a new director…Mon Nov 11 2002 - 00:00
When machines take on a life of their ownVisual Arts: The machine that thinks and feels has been an object of speculative fascination for centuries, not least because…Wed Aug 07 2002 - 01:00
Moving out of controlBoth theoretical physics and a French philosopher inform the work of artist Grace WeirTue Jul 09 2002 - 01:00
Subtle approach gets the message acrossJohn Duncan's Boom Town at the Gallery of Photography is a terrific exhibitionWed Jul 03 2002 - 01:00
Stealing beauty: the three thefts from the Beit collectionThe exact circumstances surrounding the three major thefts of paintings from the Beit Collection at Russborough, in 1974, 1986…Tue Jul 02 2002 - 01:00
Gallery offers public taste of American artThe National Gallery of Ireland yesterday began cranking up its publicity machine for the successor to its sell-out Impressionist…Thu May 23 2002 - 01:00
A landmark year at the RHAVISUAL ARTS : There is a celebratory air to this year's RHA Annual Exhibition, a feeling that the event marks something of a…Wed May 22 2002 - 01:00
Two methods of making sense of the ordinaryReviewed The Land of Ousss, Koo Jeong-a, Douglas Hyde Gallery until June 1st (01-6081116) Constructed for Leisure, Darren Murray…Wed May 15 2002 - 01:00
Chester Beatty Library is European Museum of the YearThe Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has won the European Museum of the Year Award 2002.Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00
Looking at the spaces behind the townReviewed Oliver Comerford, Get Here, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery until April 27th (01-8740064)Fri Apr 12 2002 - 01:00
Contemporary artists in search of a subtitleReviewed: EV+A 2002 Open and Invited, Limerick City Gallery of Art and other venues until June 9th (061-310633) Sometimes, Limerick…Wed Mar 27 2002 - 00:00
The coherence of chaosVISUAL ART : One of the art reviewer's classic dodges is to say that such and such a work exhibits contradictory qualities, …Wed Mar 06 2002 - 00:00
Art that recasts a city park as a Garden of EdenVISUAL ART/Aidan Dunne: Michael Kane has been a distinctive, slightly truculent presence on the Irish art scene since the 1960s…Wed Feb 27 2002 - 00:00
Animal magic?It may not be immediately apparent why Paul Nugent calls his exhibition The Franciscan SeriesThu Feb 14 2002 - 00:00
Animal magic?It may not be immediately apparent why Paul Nugent calls his exhibition The Franciscan SeriesWed Feb 13 2002 - 00:00
Life's confusions and contradictionsBetweem his exhibition Becoming More Like Us and nightly outdoor screenings of his video Mislim Neznam/I Mean I Don't Know , …Wed Feb 06 2002 - 00:00
By the watery lightOBSERVER: Charlie Brady's paintings eliminate any hint of drama orpretension - yet the eye is drawn to them, writes Aidan Dunne…Sat Feb 02 2002 - 00:00
Benefiting from the generosity of an unlikely art collectorProfile Of A Collection, IMMA, Dublin, until June 23rd: When the Irish Museum of Modern Art was being established a little …Wed Jan 30 2002 - 00:00
Sins of the fleshEccentric and determinedly unmodern, Stanley Spencer was marginalised in his day, and even now his frank depictions of flesh …Mon Jan 28 2002 - 00:00
Who's going to run IMMA now?It looks as if the Irish Museum of Modern Art is going to headhunt its new directorMon Jan 07 2002 - 00:00
Visual ArtThe art publishing phenomenon if 2001 was David Hockney's best-selling Secret Knowledge ( Thames & Hudson, £35 in UK), a …Sat Dec 08 2001 - 00:00
The art of living dangerouslyIf you visited the Irish Museum of Modern Art over the weekend of October 19th-21st this year, you were bound to experience some…Wed Nov 28 2001 - 00:00
Mediating the mutabilities of landscapeDonald Urquhart's exhibition Fields, which has just finished its run at Kilkenny's Butler Gallery and opens next week at the …Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00
Art that's off the wallsWillie Doherty is prominent among a generation of Northern artists whose work has been decisively shaped by the TroublesWed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00
'If I write something down it's already old'Dave Hickey is a West Coast kind of guyFri Nov 09 2001 - 00:00
From the outside inReviewed: Michael Craig-Martin, Landscapes, Douglas Hyde Gallery until November 23rd (01-6081116)Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:00
The art of making facesFor the Celts, the head was the magic box that held the spirit prisonerSat Oct 13 2001 - 01:00
