The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’

Bangers and Crash Percussion Group starts tour, teenage wunderkind Daniel Lozakovich

Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture

Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up

Dev Hynes returns with a little help from his famous friends on another strong outing

Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous

The scientist’s fame led to sitcom appearances, biopics, and music about him

Review: Duncan Jones’s latest film is a nod his late father, David Bowie, but it feels weirdly threadbare. It’s not disastrous – just senseless and lacking a plot

The Festival of Great Music in Irish Houses plays fast and loose with its title but delivers music of calibre and quality

Exhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in art

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year

Kingdom are living through the Dublin golden years as they’ve never had to before

Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

Ronan’s theatre debut is with Ciarán Hinds and Ben Whishaw in a formidable production directed by Ivo van Hove

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

The author has transported ‘Don Giovanni’ to Dublin for the Opera Theatre Company