Elizabeth Price, the woman who gave video art a good nameThe Turner Prize winner describes the moment 10 years ago when her pioneering video art took a new, fascinating turnWed Jul 20 2016 - 06:00
When Ballymun was all towering promiseVulnerable bodies and the dispossessed also feature in three Galway International Arts Festival highlightsTue Jul 19 2016 - 01:00
Hughie O’Donoghue: Broader strokes of family historyThe artist’s new exhibition explores the personal and political, ‘the complex, detailed, contingencies of people’s lives’Sat Jul 16 2016 - 01:00
The photographer who started when her father stoppedPhotographer Dragana Jurisic picked up a camera after her father's entire archive was destroyed. And that's not the only mystery in her family historyTue Jul 12 2016 - 06:00
Visual Art: When the gallery becomes a disconcerting gardenThings resonate in Caoimhe Kilfeather’s work but usually confound your expectationsTue Jul 05 2016 - 01:00
Art that’s at home in the material worldA group exhibition curated by Janet Mullarney is accessible, unpredictable and rewardingTue Jun 28 2016 - 06:00
Visual Art: Anxious, formidable work at graduate showsBumper year with third- and fourth-year graduates’ marathon exhibitionsTue Jun 21 2016 - 06:00
Visual art: A Japanese ghost ship drops anchor in DublinBrian Duggan has made a fishing boat thought lost in the 2011 tsunamis the centre of his exhibition at ProjectTue Jun 14 2016 - 01:00
The blank canvas of Roger Casement’s lifeSeparate exhibitions highlight the complexities and ambiguities of Casement and explore the many identities that have been thrust upon himThu Jun 09 2016 - 06:00
Visual art: Patrick Pearse’s prison cell cast in a new lightKatie Moore’s Ballina residency commemorating 1916 is exceptionally effectiveTue Jun 07 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: The unpredictable magic of Merlin JamesA retrospective displays the Welsh painter’s ‘art of deceptive modesty’Tue May 31 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: Breeders in nature, all teeth and clawsThe German artist Vera Klute does not take a cosy view of motherhood and familyTue May 24 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: James Joyce’s box of tricks reopenedElaine Byrne’s foray into the wordplay of Ulysses is ingenious and entertainingTue May 17 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: A Kilkenny collective that recognises no rulesA strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingnessTue May 10 2016 - 01:00
Carsten Höller: ‘ Nobody I’ve met is aware of what sort of person they are’The in-demand artist, who’s showing at this year’s EVA International, offers ‘unique inner experiences that can be used for the exploration of the self’Sat May 07 2016 - 04:00
Visual art: Three different ways to pass the Francis Bacon testA talented trio focus on plants, backwoods scenes and crumbling facadesTue May 03 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: Mayo show puts Kathleen Lynn back in the frameA sprawling show pays tribute to Lynn, a humanitarian who was airbrushed from the 1916 pictureTue Apr 26 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: Sabine Mac Mahon finds a cure for 1916 fatigueMac Mahon’s exhibition invites us to examine the construction of cultural myths both old and modernTue Apr 19 2016 - 01:00
The future of museums: ‘soft power’ and the hard sellPerhaps surprisingly, museums are thriving in the digital age, but they must commit to constant innovation in order to capture the attention and loyalty of their audiencesMon Apr 18 2016 - 06:00
Once upon a time in the Irish midlandsEnda Bowe’s photographs of an unnamed Irish town reveal young people on the brink of greater awarenessTue Apr 12 2016 - 01:00
Patrick Hennessy at Imma: Temperament, truths and brooding youthsThe Cork artist had his critics, but his sexuality was not the issueTue Apr 05 2016 - 01:00
Visual art: The RHA’s phoenix-like rise from the ashesIt’s original home burned down during the Rising, but the RHA has become a vital part of the Irish art sceneTue Mar 29 2016 - 01:00
Richard Gorman: Art that’s as strong as the paper it’s painted onGorman’s work on kozo paper is quite something to behold – but don’t ask him how much it cost a sheetTue Mar 22 2016 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: East meets West in the centre of the voidThe vital art in Bill Lynch’s first ever exhibition (sadly posthumous) displays a heavy Chinese influenceTue Mar 22 2016 - 01:00
Who owns our heritage?James Cuno of the Getty Foundation says that antiquities belong to us all, not to the states where they happen to be, and that they should be universally accessibleSat Mar 19 2016 - 05:17
Art review: Roger O’Neill at The ComplexThe arts centre has had a chequered, nomadic history but things are looking upTue Mar 08 2016 - 06:00
A second family for Frank AuerbachThe artist says he coped fine with the death of both his parents in Auschwitz – but does his modus operandi suggest otherwise?Mon Mar 07 2016 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: Thoughtful films about artifice and architectsAmie Siegel’s essay films are full of ideas, and Eddie Kennedy’s paintings are informed by MayoTue Mar 01 2016 - 01:00
Visual art round-up: Yinka Shonibare’s headless mannequinsThe British-Nigerian artist’s colourful sculptures explore postcolonial identityTue Feb 23 2016 - 01:00
Visual art round-up: Vivid displays of painterly powerThree exhibitions showcase different aspects of modern painting to great effectTue Feb 16 2016 - 01:00
Visual art round-up: The kind of country Irish people have madeTwo views of the Rising and the Ireland it helped to createTue Feb 09 2016 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: Sean Lynch brings Venice to LimerickLynch’s Venice Biennale exhibition, now on tour, is quite an achievementTue Feb 02 2016 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: Sheila Rennick takes aim at hedonistic excessThe characters Rennick paints are deluded but she refuses to ridicule them; and exhibitions by Julie Merriman and Maeve McCarthy have plenty to recommend themTue Jan 26 2016 - 06:00
Visual art: An epic yet personal reflection on the 1916 RisingA clash of cultures makes for a powerful showTue Jan 19 2016 - 01:00
Visual art round-up: How to capture an image of a black holeGrace Weir’s latest films focus on her interest in scienceTue Jan 12 2016 - 06:00
Antony Gormley: ‘Sculpture is the greatest agent of change of all art forms’Gormley is once again getting a warm reception at Imma, having been part of the gallery’s inaugural exhibition in 1991. He talks about his love of Ireland and his artistic philosophyWed Jan 06 2016 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: Pallas Projects bursts out of its gated communityThe Coombe-based arts group’s periodical is a valuable exercise; and George Bolster takes on the delicate subject of depressionTue Jan 05 2016 - 06:00
Darly digs: Biting satire from the 18th centuryNot much is known about London husband-and-wife satirists the Darlys, but their work remains sharpTue Dec 22 2015 - 01:00
Aidan Dunne’s 2015: A Ruysch moment on a Turner Prize breakA number of issues come to mind, including the tendency to keep women corralled within culturally defined borders, and the downgrading of whole areas of creative endeavour as being women’s workSat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00
An exciting moment for Irish art photographyWhat stands out at the Solas show is the richness of the award-winning Irish workTue Dec 15 2015 - 06:00
Liliane Tomasko: ‘I don’t think of myself as an abstract artist’For the Swiss-born artist and photographer, the unmade bed is a metaphor for the reality of daily lifeMon Dec 14 2015 - 06:00
An artistic inheritance that pays off: Visual art round-upNick Miller was inspired by working in the late Edward McGuire’s donated studioTue Dec 08 2015 - 06:00
Does art still have a place at the heart of our communities?A touring exhibition celebrates three decades of local-authority support for artists. Where does that commitment stand today, and what challenges face local arts development?Sat Dec 05 2015 - 11:55
Visual Art: A monkey’s puzzle: the zoo or the theatre?A disruptive power is evident in three shows that play with our perceptions of the worldTue Dec 01 2015 - 06:00
Disappearing islands and a planet on the edge: visual art round-upGalway’s annual winter arts festival is, fittingly enough, all about the weatherTue Nov 24 2015 - 01:00
Architecture trumps art in a strange turn for the Turner PrizeIt should embarrass the contemporary art world that the front runners for the prestigious prize are not artistsMon Nov 23 2015 - 06:00
Visual art round-up: On the trail of Jack the Ripper in DroghedaThe 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosenTue Nov 17 2015 - 01:00
Visual Art: Why Gretchen Bender’s work is ripe for revivalThe late American media artist was ahead of her time, but her reputation is now catching up with her powerful work; and Mayo artists respond to their home countyTue Nov 10 2015 - 06:00
Richard Gorman wins Savills Art Prize at VUE 2015Gorman won the prize for a series of prints made at Stoney Road PressThu Nov 05 2015 - 20:05
Visual art: EVA curator ‘has always dreamt of Ireland’In-demand Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh will relate next year’s EVA to the historical significance of 1916Tue Nov 03 2015 - 06:00
