There’s more to hanging a collection of pictures than meets the eye

David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales

The photographer on her run-in with John Wayne and her love of Grace and Frankie

The former Sex Pistol on Sam Neill, ‘nutty’ Tokyo and the star-studded restaurant The Wolseley

Singer on how David Hockney inspired his album artwork, and the energy of New York

Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

Interior designer Jacques Grange, who created homes for YSL and Sofia Coppola, is selling his collection of a lifetime

Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair

It's high time the artist was rescued from the Hollywood treatment in the film Girl with a Pearl Earring

London Letter: Tate Britain’s landmark show tells a story of courage, shame and sex

Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art

Most British writers today are Remainers. Which side would past literary giants take?

Caravaggio was tetchy and combative, quick to take offence and always ready for a fight. That energy pours from the works in a new show at the National Gallery of Ireland

Theatre manager Stephen Faloon loves his refurbished Herbert Simms house – especially the 60in flat-screen television

A retrospective of one of Ireland’s best living painters shows he is still innovating

Mother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairs

MAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawing

First major presentation of English artist’s work in Ireland concentrates on early work

Ryan and Trevor Oakes are undertaking brilliant experiments with observation and perception, changing views on reality along the way