The best visual art shows this weekExplore Irish diaspora connections in the Caribbean and nag’s latest work in DublinSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
Lucian Freud and Jack B Yeats: A couple of outsiders side by sideAn exhibition pairing work by Lucian Freud and Jack B Yeats is a triumphWed Jul 03 2019 - 05:00
Ireland in the rare old times: Photographs capture an unspoiled countryHelen Hooker O’Malley photographed medieval and ancient sites and structuresTue Jul 02 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Siobhán Hapaska – Snake and AppleSculpture reflects a world of discord and uncertaintySat Jun 29 2019 - 05:00
Visualising disaster in Anita Groener’s The Past is a Foreign CountryAn austere, biting and effective response to the experience of war, forced migration, refugee camps caused by the war in SyriaTue Jun 25 2019 - 05:00
For one month only: the Irish Museum of Contemporary PhotographyMarking its 10th anniversary PhotoIreland Festival opens a pop-up museum in DublinMon Jun 24 2019 - 05:00
On a scale of one to Zen: Buddha’s life, decorated by handThe Chester Beatty Library gives a glimpse into a world surprisingly close to our ownSat Jun 22 2019 - 05:00
Art in focus: People and a Frank Stella by Robert BallaghAn epic early commission by Robert Ballagh is given a new lease of life in ClonmelSat Jun 22 2019 - 05:00
A showcase of pencil and charcoal drawings, and a visual diaristAidan Dunne: New exhibition raises question – can drawing survive in a digital age?Tue Jun 18 2019 - 05:00
Portraits of children: This week’s visual arts highlightsArt inspired by Ulysses, the Burren annual and the search for perfectionSat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Carbon Sync by Michael QuaneThe swimmer is kept afloat by the environment humanity is in the process of destroyingSat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00
Review: TU Dublin Photography Graduate ExhibitionThis year’s graduates are in the thick of it, and wouldn’t have it any other wayTue Jun 11 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Y6.19 by Charles TyrrellTyrrell’s body of work is in a sense an autobiography, a record of day-by-day activitySat Jun 08 2019 - 05:00
Staring Forms review: An elegant consideration of the spaces around usTS Eliot’s Waste Land manuscript becomes a starting point for Miranda Blennerhassett, Aleana Egan, Andreas Kindler von Knoblock and Tanad WilliamsTue Jun 04 2019 - 05:00
A sense of belonging: This week’s visual arts highlightsOikeiôsis means ‘coming into one’s own’, and these artists have certainly come into their ownSat Jun 01 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Walter Frederick Osborne – Violet Stockley with RabbitOsborne’s painting of his niece demonstrates his understated though impressive skillsSat Jun 01 2019 - 05:00
A wealth of invention at the RHA's annual exhibitionAcademy’s 189th outing displays implicit awareness of issues such as housingTue May 28 2019 - 05:00
A collection from two different perspectivesAidan Dunne: Arts Council and Civic Art Collection join forces for an exhibition in BoyleSat May 25 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: The Past is a Foreign Country by Anita Groener (2018)Groener focuses on the trauma inflicted by strife and migration in the recent pastSat May 25 2019 - 05:00
Huawei seeks $1bn from small group of lendersMove is first major funding test since US curbs on suppliersFri May 24 2019 - 13:20
Larry Poons and John Gibbons: An unusual pairing that worksThe master of American modern painting and sculptor have little in common, except spiritTue May 21 2019 - 05:00
Burrowing into your brain: This week’s visual art highlightsTwo shows look at how touchscreens and data overload are rebooting our mindsSat May 18 2019 - 05:00
The male gaze filtered through a young woman's eyesMargaret Corcoran revisits the National Gallery of Ireland nearly 20 years on from her ground-breaking exhibition An EnquirySat May 18 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Treecurtin by David CroneFrom Troubles Belfast to his back garden, David Crone finds riches in his environmentSat May 18 2019 - 05:00
Exploring the links between Islamic and Celtic artAnne Korff’s paintings vividly reflect her experience of the refugee crisisTue May 14 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Mercedes Helnwein – Class Picture VIIArtist’s unsettling work delves into iconography of American childhood and adolescenceSat May 11 2019 - 05:00
‘Pressure and stress are viewed in a negative way. But you have to put yourself under pressure’Dubliner Eva Rothschild, Ireland’s representative at the Venice Biennale, uses industrial materials to create a compelling sculptural account of our unsettled timesThu May 09 2019 - 05:00
Quiet power of Doris Salcedo’s austere visionHer home country’s politics underpin the Colombian artist’s art of absenceTue May 07 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Tree by Joe HanlyHanly evokes a hyper-connected, troubled world through the symbol of an eternal treeSat May 04 2019 - 05:00
Our Plundered Planet: An uneasy look at our relationship with the natural worldAidan Dunne: Mark Dion’s cabinets of curiosities hark back to an era of collectingTue Apr 30 2019 - 05:00
Brutality begins at home: This week’s visual arts highlightsIn Acts of Mourning, Doris Salcedo looks at violence through everyday domestic objectsSat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00
Big country: The art of the Irish landscapeA new show at the National Gallery of Ireland explores our relationship with the landSat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00
Art in focus: Jobst Graeve by Michael O’DeaA meeting between a painter and an art collector produced an unusual portraitSat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00
The authentic Sonia Shiel and Martin Mooney, 12 years laterWorks showcase Shiel’s easy facility, while Mooney embraces the challenge of plein airTue Apr 23 2019 - 05:00
David Fox and Pete Smyth: The best art shows to see the weekOK: Hannah Fitz creates a sculptural landscape inhabited by footballersSat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Andrew Kearney – MechanismArtist’s unsettling installations underline the implicit strangeness of everyday encounters with objects, places and materialsSat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00
Hidden artistic gems of Irish modernismNew exhibition features rarely seen works by Ireland’s pioneering modernistsTue Apr 16 2019 - 05:00
Diamonds and Rust and four more of the best exhibitions this weekDerry gets a visit from the works of Dave West and Dublin sees Gabhann Dunne’sSat Apr 13 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Composition (c 1922) by Mainie JellettA superb early cubist work by a pioneer of modernism in IrelandSat Apr 13 2019 - 05:00
Past, meet the present. Present meet the pastJonathan Hunter and Stephen Lawlor’s exhibitions play with our sense of timeTue Apr 09 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Drawing from Poulaphouca No 3 by Sam RevelesThe Texan has likened his accretive process to the growth of lichen or fungusSat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art shows: From an anxiety exhibition to Damien HirstPlus: Venice Biennale works on iconic 20th-century buildings, and Ben ReillySat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00
Golden Fleece Award banishes border between art and craftTwo ceramicists and two visual artists announced as winners of annual prizeTue Apr 02 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Transgress by Ian WieczorekIan Wieczorek’s paintings address a world of mass surveillance and forced migrationSat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00
Lismore Castle’s grand display and the other best exhibitions this weekDreamy landscapes and reimaginings of historical pieces are among the highlightsSat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00
Looking at the Border from both sides nowField Notes from the Border #1 sees three photographic artists share perspectivesTue Mar 26 2019 - 05:00
Mary Swanzy arrives in Cork, and the other best exhibitions this weekSee meditations on environmental catastrophe or relics from raving in DublinSat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – The Drenched Forest by Cecilia DanellAll is not what it seems in Galway-based Swedish painter’s forested landscapesSat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
Stephen McKenna: a painters’ painterA Painter’s Life exhibition offers insight into artist whose life was process of inquiryWed Mar 20 2019 - 05:00
Liliane Tomasko’s abstract dream paintings offer no neat solutionsExhibitions by Tomasko and Michael Coleman challenge preconceptionsTue Mar 19 2019 - 05:00
