A catalogue of cultural treasuresThe new summary Catalogue: drawings, paintings and sculptures (edited by Eileen Black) of the collections of MAGNI, the combined…Wed Jan 03 2001 - 00:00
Art collector threatens to reassess link with IMMAThe businessman and art collector Mr Gordon Lambert says he intends to reassess his relationship with the Irish Museum of Modern…Sat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
Four artists on Glen Dimplex listFour artists have been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex Artists Award 2001, worth £15,000.Thu Dec 14 2000 - 00:00
Where angels fear to treadThe sculptor Antony Gormley is one of relatively few artists who can claim to have created an enduring iconic image, in the form…Mon Dec 04 2000 - 00:00
A vorticist's taleSome Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis. By Paul O'Keeffe. Jonathan CapeSat Dec 02 2000 - 00:00
Dutch visions displaced in GalwayDutch-born artist Anita Groener, whose show Heartlands is currently running at the Galway Arts Centre, moved to Ireland from …Wed Nov 22 2000 - 00:00
Emotional colour weaveYou may find there is something strangely familiar about much of the work in Louis le Brocquy's exhibition of Aubusson Tapestries…Sat Nov 18 2000 - 00:00
Pictures made and forcefully unmadeReviewed: Under Black: Michael Coleman, Green on Red Gallery until November 18th (01-6713414); Martina Corry: Photogenic Drawings…Wed Nov 15 2000 - 00:00
Some fresh takes on landscapeThe main visual arts offering in this year's Belfast Festival is Places in Mind, three complementary takes on landscape by three…Thu Nov 09 2000 - 00:00
Who's in and who's left outCan the achievements of Irish art of the last 50 years be summarised in an exhibition featuring just over 60 works?Sat Nov 04 2000 - 00:00
Icons of Irish artIcons of Identity marshals and explores nine iconic presences from the last two millennia which had an active - and in many respects…Wed Nov 01 2000 - 00:00
Nature on a grand scaleIn a brief statement accompanying her exhibition at the Ashford Gallery, Gwen O'Dowd notes that the paintings in the show are…Sat Oct 28 2000 - 01:00
No escape from the Dead HousePerhaps the most striking thing about Apocalypse at the Royal Academy in London is the unorthodox means of entryWed Oct 25 2000 - 01:00
Intriguing glimpse into someone's worldReviewed: I'm a Success, Gallery of Photography until Oct 28thTue Oct 17 2000 - 01:00
Death of sculptor James McKennaThe sculptor, playwright and poet, James McKenna, has died at his home in Kildare. He was 67Thu Oct 12 2000 - 01:00
Art Matters: Reflecting on Culture, by John Tusa (Methuen, £9.99 in UK)John Tusa, an ex-DG of the BBC World Service, now manages the Barbican Centre in London, and has strong views on the way the …Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
A capsule collectionReviewed: Perspective 2000, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast until October 14th (048 90 321402)Wed Oct 04 2000 - 01:00
Something out of the blueReviewed: extracts from a file, Willie Doherty, Kerlin Gallery until October 14th (01-6709093); More Major Mammals, Finola Jones…Wed Sept 27 2000 - 01:00
Bridging the gapThe opening of the Oresundsbron bridge between Copenhagen and Malmo last month represents something more than a functional link…Sat Sept 16 2000 - 01:00
High on New YorkCertain painters become associated with particular places and landscapes: Sean McSweeney with the Sligo shoreline, T.PSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
ArtThere's something of a Tony O'Malley fest in Cork in the form of two major exhibitions of his workSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
ArtOver a period of two years, Nigel Rolfe documented crash-sites in joyriding fatalities in Dublin city, mapping the "violent and…Sat Aug 26 2000 - 01:00
Inner worlds and outer landscapesReviewed: Sequent, Cliona Harmey, Arthouse until September 7th;Wed Aug 23 2000 - 01:00
When the sky's not the limitReviewed: The Sea & The Sky, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin (01-6612558), until August 27thTue Aug 08 2000 - 01:00
What's good with Basil?Basil Blackshaw is an exceptional figure in contemporary Irish art: a fine painter and a real countryman who actually lives in…Wed Jul 26 2000 - 01:00
Green fields of New YorkInvited by the Kerlin Gallery to curate a show that would expand the gallery's programme, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith has come …Thu Jul 20 2000 - 01:00
ArtThe Fenton Gallery in Cork occupies part of the same Wandesford Quay building complex as Cork Printmakers (the Backwater Artists…Sat Jul 15 2000 - 01:00
Dancing, shifting lightHistory Lesson, Cho Duck-Hyun, RHA Gallagher Gallery until August 27thWed Jul 12 2000 - 01:00
Prints be praisedThis year's Earagail Arts Festival celebrates the work of one of Scotland's leading and most influential artists, Elizabeth Blackadder…Sat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Surprising himselfLast Monday afternoon Leon Golub had his first glimpse of his own retrospective exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern ArtSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Is Brit-Art dying?So, Damien Hirst's shark is starting to rot, Tracey Emin didn't win the 1999 Turner Prize and the other Bad Girl of the Young…Sat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Dance to the music of artThe thing about Hollywood, as William Goldman famously wrote, is that "Nobody knows anything", and the same nugget of insight…Sat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
ArtThe three-dimensional print works by Andrew Folan, exceptional for their technical virtuosity and striking visualisation, which…Sat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
ArtWhen Harry Thuillier Jr was discovered dead in the labyrinthine spaces beneath Milan's central railway station in December 1997…Sat Jun 24 2000 - 01:00
An unmissable, outstanding show opens new ProjectJAKI Irvine's Douglas Hyde show last summer, The Hot- test Sun, The Darkest Hour, used the gallery's difficult space brilliantly…Wed Jun 21 2000 - 01:00
Students after SaatchiReviewed: National College of Art and Design Fine Art Degree and Diploma exhibitions, NCAD, 100 Thomas Street, and the RHA Gallagher…Wed Jun 14 2000 - 01:00
`At the edges of the world, the fringes of experience'Harry Thuillier Jr's photographs, like those of the US photographer, Francesca Woodman, have a strangely other-worldly, haunted…Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
ArtEvery year, the Eigse Carlow Arts Festival assembles a formidable line-up of Irish and international artists and accommodates…Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Artistic pioneer Micheal Farrell dies aged 60The painter Micheal Farrell died yesterday at his home in Cardet in southern FranceThu Jun 08 2000 - 01:00
Glen Dimplex award duo artfully blend old and newThe millennial Glen Dimplex Artists Award, worth £15,000, has gone to artistic collaborators David Phillips and Paul RowleyWed May 31 2000 - 01:00
ArtIn 1971 the Carton y Papel de Mexico company commissioned a print each from 10 Mexican artists in a project that eventually grew…Sat May 27 2000 - 01:00
Drama of the ordinaryPeople find Hannah Starkey's photographs intriguing because, in depicting people in everyday situations, they are almost completely…Sat May 20 2000 - 01:00