Visual art round-up: Brian Ballard’s paintings get better with ageThe Belfast painter's work has aged very wellTue Oct 27 2015 - 06:00
Shot by firing squad for ‘cowardice and desertion’ | Visual art round-upChloe Dewe Mathews visited sites where first World War servicemen were executedTue Oct 20 2015 - 06:00
A startling clash of civilisations in Dublin | Visual art round-upA National Gallery show juxtaposes Jackie Nickerson photos from Africa with portraits of western privilege; and Makiko Nakamura’s abstract work is dramaticTue Oct 13 2015 - 06:00
Crazy, big, surreal thing called love | Visual artA kiss is not just a kiss in this big Imma show about a big emotionTue Oct 06 2015 - 06:00
Fresh takes on Stephen Shore’s gas station | Visual Art round-upPlus, David Godbold’s sarcasm continues to divide; and David Claerbout is never less than watchableTue Sept 29 2015 - 06:00
The art of conflict: paintings of 1916Jack B Yeats, Robert Ballagh and Sir John Lavery are among the artists who have taken inspiration from the 1916 Rising, writes The Irish Times art criticWed Sept 23 2015 - 05:00
Beneath the surface of ordinary family life | Visual art round-upSabine Lacey paints real photographs to explore the history of a family; Bridget O’Gorman’s sculptures point to some unspoken calamity; and Johnny Savage’s book is a thoughtful, valuable take on the 21st-century Irish landscapeTue Sept 22 2015 - 06:00
Gothic fantasy, headless horses and chilly vistas | Visual art round-upGary Coyle’s exhibition is superb, and three other Dublin shows also have plenty to exploreTue Sept 15 2015 - 06:00
A high-risk performance from Amanda Coogan | Visual artFor those who are wary of performance art, Coogan’s approach may sway youTue Sept 08 2015 - 06:00
A Sligo group show dreams big and succeeds | Visual art round-up‘Magnetism’ rises to the challenge of its venue’s scale; and Anna Macleod’s polite protests hit homeTue Sept 01 2015 - 06:00
Charles Tyrrell finds human fallibility in the logic of the grid | Visual artTyrrell’s paintings, in the tricky Uillinn gallery, aim for the ‘rightness’ of natureTue Aug 25 2015 - 06:00
Five artists push Tallaght’s boundaries | Visual art round-upThe Young Curators Project throws up some fascinating takes on the landscapeTue Aug 18 2015 - 06:00
Daring Dublin artist Kevin Gaffney goes through the millGaffney will use his Sky Academy Arts Scholarship for a project about the Shackleton Mill in Lucan that will involve film, photography and a bookWed Aug 12 2015 - 06:00
Pioneers of agitprop, from Russia to Tyrone | Visual art round-upA desire to use art to effect political change unites El Lissitzky and Alice MilliganTue Aug 11 2015 - 06:00
Visual Art: Stephen McKenna finds the unity in fragmentationA fascination with Europe as a ritual cultural entity is reflected in these paintings from 1980 onwardTue Aug 04 2015 - 00:00
Tadhg McSweeney picks up where Picasso left off | Visual art round-upMcSweeney’s collaged sculptures are a delight; while an Adam’s show looks northTue Jul 28 2015 - 04:00
Stan Douglas at Imma: Every picture reveals a thousand detailsImma is showing the work of the renowned Canadian photographerWed Jul 22 2015 - 05:45
Border tensions and a fraught relationship | Visual art at GIAFThe China-Russia border, dystopian visions, an uneasy road trip and feats of origami feature in four festival exhibitionsTue Jul 21 2015 - 04:00
Strange evolution: meet the weird relativesIt’s life but not as we know it: Australian artist Patricia Piccinini uses silicon, fibreglass and hair to make strange creatures that seem biologically plausible. But why?Wed Jul 15 2015 - 06:00
Grand gestures and a forbidding landscape | Visual art round-upMichael Coleman puts on an almost perfect show; a piece of Birmingham moves to Temple Bar; and Amelia Stein goes close to the edgeTue Jul 14 2015 - 15:55
Understated wit, wallpaper and words | Visual art round-upRamon Kassam looks for the most elegant solution; Gavin Hogg takes a Jungian path; and a posthumous Martin Folan show exudes integrityTue Jul 07 2015 - 04:00
Italian fables and the records of a break-up | Visual art round-upThree artists at Hillsboro share a love for a great Italian tradition; and Catherine Barron throws herself into her workTue Jun 30 2015 - 04:00
Lost civilisations and the uncivilised future | Visual Art round-upProject’s big summer show is an unwieldy but thought-provoking displayTue Jun 23 2015 - 04:00
We owe the Beits a considerable debtRussborough and the Beit collection together form a national treasure, and should be treated as suchSat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
Discontent and material gain at student shows | Visual Art round-upNCAD’s troubles spilled into its degree show, although there was work of note there and at DIT and IADTFri Jun 12 2015 - 01:00
A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-upBedwyr Williams shows us a broken-down future; while Gypsy Ray’s photographs display great warmthTue Jun 09 2015 - 04:00
Bring up the bodies – and have a good look at them | Visual arts round-upSam Keogh’s fine new exhibition explores our treatment of human remains and what it reveals about usTue Jun 02 2015 - 04:00
A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s membersAgainst the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfieTue May 26 2015 - 04:00
Visual Art round-up: Uncertain prospects and a park that keeps secretsKarla Black’s Imma show falls short of allowing access to an imaginative spaceTue May 19 2015 - 04:00
When Africa came to the Arsenale, and the Irish Biennale adventureVenice’s first African-born curator, Okwui Enwezor, is on a mission to clean up the spiritual home of the art world and remind us of its social and political responsibilitiesSun May 17 2015 - 14:00
Trapped in the tight, murky orbit of BallinasloeVisual Art: Ciarán Óg Arnold’s photographic book shows us a world of drinking, messing and masculine swaggerTue May 12 2015 - 03:00
Visual Art round-up: Painters who break the rulesTwo intriguing group exhibitions ask whether we can believe our eyesTue May 05 2015 - 01:00
Visual Art round-up: Back to the DeLorean, and on to the futureThis week’s shows feature a mythologised car and superstition, emerging artists, and beautiful woodturningTue Apr 28 2015 - 01:00
Visual Art round-up: Worlds on the brink and cosmic explorationsExhibitions by Clare Langan and Diana Copperwhite succeed, while a group show in Carlow is less certainTue Apr 21 2015 - 01:00
Was sculptor Gerda Frömel too subtle for success?The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospectiveThu Apr 16 2015 - 07:00
Visual Art round-up: Bent knees and a strange nostalgia for the futureInstallations, painting, etchings and photography: four Dublin shows have it allTue Apr 14 2015 - 10:00
Mick O’Dea redraws Irish historyBooks about the work of O’Dea and Robert Armstrong are, respectively, provocative and sumptuousTue Apr 07 2015 - 01:00
The magnificant seven treasures of Japanese cloisonnéThe golden age of this ancient enamelling technique is given an exceptional showcaseTue Mar 31 2015 - 01:00
The AIB art collection: here’s one the bankers got rightFar from being a corporate bauble, the AIB Art Collection, featuring Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Roderic O’Conor among others, is an exceptional showcase of 20th-century Irish workTue Mar 24 2015 - 01:00
Rose Wylie’s goal: to paint like a five-year-oldAt 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artinessTue Mar 17 2015 - 01:00
Saints alive (and almost dead): the power of Counter-Reformation paintingsThe power of these images goes far beyond their historical significanceTue Mar 10 2015 - 09:51
Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feedsA series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critiqueTue Mar 03 2015 - 10:00
The Whitworth: bigger is better for the ‘Tate of the north’The expanded Manchester gallery is looking to make an explosive impactTue Feb 24 2015 - 01:00
Anthony Lyttle's drawings hold vast reservoirs of feeling beneath the surfaceHis densely patterned works have an in-between quality that unsettles the eye but also keeps it interestedTue Feb 17 2015 - 10:00
From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmareMullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapesTue Feb 10 2015 - 10:00
The bright new gallery by the sea: welcome to Dún Laoghaire’s MunicipalThe fine gallery is part of the flagship Lexicon library, a testament to civic generosityWed Feb 04 2015 - 14:41
Mark Garry’s thread rainbows and the elephant in the roomThe sense of something fleeting and fading gives exhibitions by Garry, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra and Nick Miller their strengthTue Feb 03 2015 - 06:00
List of the week: 10 great Irish paintings on public displayA new weekly column brings you curated lists from Irish Times experts. Here, our art critic suggests 10 Irish paintings worth seeking outSat Jan 31 2015 - 12:06
The age-old traditions of Gareth Kennedy’s invented worldsThe artist’s latest projects centre on what he calls ‘folk fictions’Tue Jan 27 2015 - 01:00
Niamh O’Malley’s films draw us in closeThe artist’s exhibition is a tactful, tentative intrusion into the Douglas Hyde Gallery’s brutalist fabricTue Jan 20 2015 - 10:00
