Buy a WhiskerCharlie Whisker’s paintings usually map out in-between spaces, both physical and psychologicalSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
facsimileRubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin Tues-Sat Noon-6pm Feb 25-Mar 28 01-6708055Fri Feb 20 2009 - 00:00
Conceptions of paradiseVISUAL ARTS: WE SEE THE past in terms of the representational strategies used to describe itWed Feb 18 2009 - 00:00
Three Masterpieces from DelftVERMEER, FABRITIUS DE HOOCH: National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Sq W and Clare St, Dublin Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Thurs 9Fri Feb 13 2009 - 00:00
Attacking the subject of 20th century conflictVISUAL ARTS: THE GLUCKSMAN Gallery at UCC has maintained a strategy of running two divergent but related exhibitions in tandem…Wed Feb 11 2009 - 00:00
Bringing art right back to the drawing boardVISUAL ARTS: AS INGRES famously proclaimed: “Drawing is the probity of artWed Jan 28 2009 - 00:00
Trees that branch out in many directions and digital photography with an edgeVISUAL ARTS : NEVAN LAHART’S Ugly Lovely at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery is an extended riff on just a single motif, but it’s …Wed Jan 21 2009 - 00:00
Introspective works make a fitting tribute to John KellyVISUAL ARTS: CURRENTLY SHOWING at the Ashford Gallery is a fitting, thoughtfully devised tribute to the late John KellyWed Jan 14 2009 - 00:00
Breaking the boundaries of selfVISUAL ARTS: AT THE Irish Museum of Modern Art (Imma), Self as Selves draws on pieces in the permanent collection and features…Wed Dec 10 2008 - 00:00
Mixed-media artist says he is 'chuffed' to win Turner PrizeAT TATE Britain last night, Nick Cave named Mark Leckey as the winner of this year's Turner Prize.Tue Dec 02 2008 - 00:00
The shining stars who burned out too soonVISUAL ART: A NUMBER OF ARTISTS who died fairly recently and prematurely but whose influence is still very much alive are featured…Thu Nov 27 2008 - 00:00
Art expanding to fill the historic spaceVISUAL ARTS : ALL IN ALL, this year's 178th Annual Exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy is one for the history books.Wed Nov 19 2008 - 00:00
Turner Prize fails to capture imaginationThis year's Turner Prize has little to excite the viewer, expect perhaps to see the work of the Belfast-born Cathy Wilkes in …Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00
Worlds mapped by outsidersVISUAL ARTS : HENRY DARGER is one of the most remarkable of that remarkable category of people: outsider artistsWed Oct 08 2008 - 01:00
Paintings to be seen in the fleshVISUAL ARTS: IN PRECIOUS THINGS , at the Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery in Drogheda, Graham Crowley has put together a tremendously…Wed Oct 01 2008 - 01:00
Between the eye and the landscapeVISUAL ARTS: DAVID KIELY, whose paintings are showing at the Lemonstreet Gallery, is from Cork and a graduate of the Crawford…Wed Sept 24 2008 - 01:00
The world of GodboldVISUAL ARTS: THE TITLE OF David Godbold's Kerlin Gallery exhibition, Art, Drugs and Prayer, is characteristic in its heterogeneous…Wed Sept 17 2008 - 01:00
A terrific exhibition dogged by doubtVISUAL ARTS: I CAN / CAN I?: on paintings and potentiality at Temple Bar Gallery is one of the best exhibitions running in Dublin…Wed Aug 20 2008 - 01:00
Artists who grew up with the 'Korean Tiger'VISUAL ART : TO HAVE OR TO BE: Contemporary Korean Art at Farmleigh Gallery takes its title from the theories of social psychologist…Wed Aug 13 2008 - 01:00
Twin responses to TwomblyTate Modern's retrospective to mark the 80th birthday of American artist Cy Twombly displays just why his body of work elicits…Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
The art that plays tricks with our eyesAn ambitious revival of the work of Hungarian artist Victor Vasarély reminds us how much he has influenced the fields of architecture…Thu Jul 31 2008 - 01:00
Swept along by an overwhelming torrentVISUAL ART: THE ANNUAL GROUP exhibition that dominates the visual arts strand of the Boyle Arts Festival is a remarkable phenomenon…Wed Jul 30 2008 - 01:00
Poignant images from a region apartVISUAL ARTS: THE TITLE OF MID-LAND: photographs from the interior at the Gallery of Photography may be slightly tongue-in-cheek…Wed Jul 23 2008 - 01:00
Life in high definitionAs the world shrinks we will see a realisation that the different streams of humanity are part of a greater whole, video artist…Sat Jul 19 2008 - 01:00
Plugging the gaps in history's wreckageVISUAL ARTS: THE SCOTTISH ARTIST, Anya Gallaccio, provides the star turn in the visual arts strand of this year's Kinsale Arts…Wed Jul 16 2008 - 01:00
When the paint speaks to the artistVISUAL ARTS: IF YOU SLIP into the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Trinity College Dublin throughout the month of July you'll see something…Wed Jul 09 2008 - 01:00
An emphatic end of an era for ÉigseVISUAL ARTS: This year's Éigse exhibition is as impressive as the new Visualise arts centre emerging in Carlow town's centre…Wed Jun 11 2008 - 01:00
Exposed to a process of unpainting where risk of failure is essentialVISUAL ART: TURNER, OFTEN described as the greatest of all British artists, was once criticised for "painting pictures of nothing…Wed Jun 04 2008 - 01:00
Traces of another painting found beneath portrait of Hugh LaneCONSERVATORS AT Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane have discovered traces of another painting beneath John Singer Sargent’s portrait…Sat May 24 2008 - 01:00
Final brush with death at Kilmainham for artist's alter-ego as life overtakes artPATRICK IRELAND was laid to rest early yesterday evening in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) at the Royal…Wed May 21 2008 - 01:00
Tackling the taboo subject of death with clarity and precisionVISUAL ART: CLEA VAN DER GRIJN'S Moment , currently showing at the Cross Gallery, originated at The Dock in Carrick-on-Shannon…Wed May 14 2008 - 01:00
Artistic activistPROFILE: Gerard Mannix Flynn's art, and his short-lived resignation from Aosdána's inner circle over issues arising from the…Sat May 10 2008 - 01:00
Letting go of old ideals to embrace unique new sensesVISUAL ARTS: AS BARACK OBAMA controversially commented a couple of weeks ago, people cling onto all sorts of thingsWed Apr 30 2008 - 01:00
Toy-like images help to create a storybook qualityVISUAL ARTS: SIMON ENGLISH'S paintings in Departures , his show at the Vangard Gallery, have a storybook qualityWed Apr 23 2008 - 01:00
Revelation doesn't always lead to enlightenmentAIDAN DUNNE VISUAL ARTS: THERE ARE MANY good artists in Revelation , a group show at the National Gallery, but not a lot of …Wed Apr 16 2008 - 01:00
Davie's fantastically eclectic collectionVISUAL ARTS: ALAN DAVIE, WHO was born in Grangemouth in Scotland in 1920, is one of a generation of British artists who looked…Wed Apr 09 2008 - 01:00
A young gallery's good for competitionVISUAL ARTS: Dublin's commercial gallery scene has never been as varied and vibrant as it is now, yet many artists have been…Wed Apr 02 2008 - 01:00
Literary brushes with visual artDonald Friedman's fascinating new book explores why so many writers are happiest when expressing themselves visuallyTue Mar 18 2008 - 00:00
Keeper of a wonder of the worldThe Hermitage in St Petersburg is not just any museum and, as its director, Dr Mikhail Piotrovsky, knows, running it is not just…Thu Mar 06 2008 - 00:00
Window dressed to impressVISUAL ARTS: Early last year, the German artist Lothar Hempel borrowed one of his titles, Effetti Speciali, from Fellini's film…Wed Feb 27 2008 - 00:00
Contriving a striking absence on canvasVisual Arts: Allyson Keehan once described her own work as the exploration of "contrived absence"Wed Feb 13 2008 - 00:00
Down with this sort of thingArtScape: Feck. The kettle is on and the sandwiches are being made as the organisers gear up for Ted Fest '08, the follow-up…Sat Feb 02 2008 - 00:00
Expressions of past tranquillityVisual Arts: Marc Reilly's paintings in 16 Eustace Street veer in scale between tiny, large and very largeWed Jan 23 2008 - 00:00
Recasting mass cultural formsVisual Arts: Stephen Loughman and Mark O'Kelly at the Galway Arts Centre make a good pairingWed Jan 16 2008 - 00:00
Sotheby's seeks to draw Irish art lovers away from domestic sceneSotheby's one-day exhibition of Impressionist and Modern Art from its forthcoming London auctions attracted a stream of visitors…Fri Jan 11 2008 - 00:00
Elastic connectionsVisual Arts: One, though by no means the only, good thing about Surface Tension at Broadstone XL is curator Catherine Bowe's…Wed Jan 09 2008 - 00:00
Painting PicassoBiography: A Life of Picasso: Volume III The Triumphant Years 1917-1932 By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn…Sat Jan 05 2008 - 00:00
Playful with a monstrous edgeVisual Arts: A few things might strike you immediately if you see Mark McGreevy's paintingsWed Jan 02 2008 - 00:00
The path back to the MidlandsVisual Arts: Geraldine O'Reilly's exhibition, A Circuitous Line , at the Civic Theatre Gallery in Tallaght, is a tale of four…Wed Dec 19 2007 - 00:00
