Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spellVisual Art: An exhibition from the De Pont museum in Amsterdam comes to DublinTue Jul 17 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine OwensFusing traditional media and recent technology, Owens reflects on constancy in a changing worldSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Five of the best art shows to see this weekWorks from Dan Graham, Maureen O’ Neill, Maureen O’ Connor and Kelvin MannSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Video thrills on the electronic super highwaysIn 'A Visibility Matrix', Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne search for a path out of the online video jungleTue Jul 10 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – At Mirrored RiverLives and dreams in a midlands town captured in beautiful photographsSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Five art shows to see this weekSir Sidney Nolan paitings related to his family links with Ireland on show in the BurrenSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Roderic O’Conor: Ireland’s great forgotten painterA spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the post-impressionistSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
On a Pedestal: contemporary takes on the classical portrait bustA thoughtful exhibition at the Long Gallery in Castletown House, KildareTue Jul 03 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Self-portrait at Noon, Marlene DumasA powerful contemporary painter of the human conditionSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Five must-see visual art exhibitions this weekFace to Face, Life at the Edges, View from Donegal, School of Looking and 6amSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and houndedJesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation mythTue Jun 26 2018 - 05:00
Four essential visual art exhibitions to see in Ireland this weekTraveller Collection, Bower, Stampa Ora and Still.Life, and a portrait prize you can enterSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Daniel Maclise – The Marriage of Strongbow and AoifeWe have ‘Avengers: Infinity War’. In the 1850s they had Maclise and his boundless imaginationSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Visual: a richly textured, intense and unpredictable showSummer exhibitions invite us to consider our relationship to the land around usTue Jun 19 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Mick O’Dea – Robert PinskyThe artist painted the poet’s portrait during his Kilkenny Arts Festival residencySat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Who’s afraid of the big, bad, deeply symbolic ‘Wolf’?Wolves are a primal force in the popular imagination, and this exhibition by José María Yagüe Manzanares explores the intersection between the human and lupine worldsTue Jun 12 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Self Portrait, New York’ by John Butler YeatsThe father of some of Ireland’s most exceptional creative talents finds his own artistic voiceSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Must-see visual art exhibitions: Kilkenny cuts, witches and star studentsRound-up of the best shows includes Mick O’Dea portraits and work by Jesse JonesSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Seán McSweeney: An artist who gave us the whole worldThe painter was an immensely popular and generous figure, as well as a singular talentSun Jun 03 2018 - 19:20
The week’s visual arts highlightsWork by Deirdre Burke, Gerry Blake, Hannah Fitz and moreSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Beginning of Darkness’ (oil on linen) by Martin GaleThe painting eloquently sums up a decisive experience for generations of Irish peopleSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
Visual Art: Bloodlines, Aspect and Hiraeth reviewThree exhibitions offer different approaches to landscapeWed May 16 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Kevin Cosgrove – CabinCosgrove seems drawn to workshops as spaces of industry, reflection and possibility. Out of their jumble emerges coherenceSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual art highlightsSarah Walker’s tapestries, Mary Burke’s Laois and Richard Gorman in MayoSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Drawing Dublin: Dirty, delightful, disconcerting old townDrawing Dublin, at the National Gallery of Ireland, thoughtfully conveys the essence of the city in terms of place and personalityTue May 08 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual art highlightsThomas Brezing, Clare Gallagher and contemporary art from GermanySat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: James Malton – St Catherine’s, Thomas Street, DublinThe artist’s city-landmark watercolours are centre stage at the National Gallery of IrelandSat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Once upon a time in the midlandsThree contemporary photographers offer differing perspectives on the midlandsTue May 01 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ORDER – a wake-up call by DemocraciaSpanish artistic collective Democracia take on capitalism and its evils in their latest work, with the help of the Black Panthers and a Dublin youth choirSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
PhotoIreland Festival 2018: visually engaging with the abortion debateTwo exhibitions at this year’s festival, from May 1st-31st, address the referendum on the Eighth, while others look at life from different social and personal perspectivesSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Visual arts highlights of the weekAn evening of words and music with Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed at The Model, Pugin Revisited at the IAA, and the Doorway Gallery focuses on the magnificence of horsesSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
Agnieszka Polska brings impotent guns and disembodied lips to DublinThe Polish artist brings two series of videos to Project. Wit, ingenuity and stories are at their coreTue Apr 24 2018 - 05:00
This week’s visual arts highlightsEVA International looks at Ireland then and now; Michael Cullen revisits Irish mythologySat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Kenneth O’Halloran – The Handball Alley, Monaghan TownThese typological photographs are among the most significant artistic interpretations of the Irish landscape of our timeSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Affirming the beauty of a supercomputerMartina O’Brien’s two-channel video piece, ‘Loop Topology’, alludes to both aspects of the analytical enterprise, collecting the day-by-day numbers and seeing what they say, or hint atWed Apr 18 2018 - 05:00
Art in focus: David Trimble by Amanda Dunsmore‘Keeper ‘ is representative of a growing phenomenon whereby artists address, explore and use archives as a primary materialSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
The best visual art shows and exhibitions this weekFrom the Burren College of Art to the Digital Hub and Roscommon Arts CentreSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Frank Bowling: An exemplary artist for our timeBowling railed against the ‘black art’ label and his work – now gathered in a retrospective – cannot be penned inTue Apr 10 2018 - 05:00
Kenneth O’Halloran’s modern ruins, Alice Maher’s woodcuts and watercolours: the best art shows this weekKenneth O’Halloran exhibition centres on his finest project to date, the superb 'The Handball Alley' seriesMon Apr 09 2018 - 11:45
Metaphors of power: Infrastructure, cultural identity and the Irish StateOpening next week, Limerick’s 38th EVA International takes as its starting point the nation-building construction of the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power stationSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: ‘Untitled, 2018’ by Jan PleitnerYoung German’s work ‘has a lot in common with that of Caravaggio’Sat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Vanessa Donoso Lopez’s venture into the epicKeith Wilson and Claire Curneen two interwoven solo shows that work very well togetherTue Apr 03 2018 - 05:00
A hint of the sublime: the best in this week’s art showsArt highlights: Anne Korff, Amelia Stein, Joseph Keating and moreSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Turner nominee tuned to videoArt in Focus: ‘West Hinder’, video still, Elizabeth PriceSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Art and architecture: from Dorothy Smith’s drawings to Liliane Lijn’s sharp eye‘I don’t like to brag about it. It was Hitler-time . . . and I somehow survived’Tue Mar 27 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Frank Bowling – Australia to Africa, 1971Major retrospective of the Caribbean artist’s work – including his ‘Map’ paintings – is at IMMASat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Joe Hanly’s upturned tree, Darn Thorn’s shrine to mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: the best art exhibitions this weekMarianne Slevin uses abandoned bank statements to explore ideas of trustSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Radical transformations of the gallery spaceTamara Henderson’s evolving show goes big; and Bassam Al Sabah merges his own family into a fictional wallpaperWed Mar 21 2018 - 05:00
Fake at Science Gallery: the best visual art shows this weekSiobhán McDonald evokes natural change; the Science Gallery looks at the nature of fakerySat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph (1620) by Il GuercinoMore than any other individual, he was responsible for rehabilitating the reputation of 17th-century Italian Baroque paintingSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
