Hero raised from the sea: The best visual arts shows to see this weekHelen Robbins, Yanny Petters, Frieda Meaney and this year’s art graduatesSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
Photographic study of mother and child wins Zurich Portrait PrizeEnda Bowe wins €20,000 award as first young portrait prize also goes to a photographTue Oct 08 2019 - 19:10
Meet the Fleabag school of contemporary Irish paintingAmanda Doran, Sheila Rennick’s works at Hillsboro, Aileen Murphy in Temple BarTue Oct 08 2019 - 05:00
Finding our place in the universe: The best visual arts shows to see this weekClodagh Emoe looks the nature of existence; Paul Hallahan muses on perception and timeSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Madame Woof by Sheila RennickRennick uses caricaturish levels of distortion in the service of bitingly satirical humourSat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00
Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colourIn A Love of Many Things, Crowley electrifies rural IrelandTue Oct 01 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Mariele Neudecker - And Then the World Changed Colour, Breathing YellowBeautiful vitrine sculptures explore how we try to represent and make sense of natureSat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
Dublin’s new creative hub The Complex is a perpetual work in progressAidan Dunne: Launch exhibition references the history of the Arran St buildingTue Sept 24 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Cillín, Lacken, Mayo by Tommy WeirWeir’s melancholy, dark-lit photographs excavate the hidden history of landscapeSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
US drone strike kills at least 30 farm workers in AfghanistanFurther 40 injured after attack in which labourers and farmers accidentally targetedThu Sept 19 2019 - 18:33
Tunisia’s ousted president Ben Ali dies in Saudi exileStrongman fled in 2011 as people rose in revolt that inspired uprisings across Middle EastThu Sept 19 2019 - 17:46
An absorption with substance and finish, as antidote to a fast-paced worldAidan Dunne: Finding a handle on Niamh O’Malley’s new sculptures at the RHATue Sept 17 2019 - 05:00
This week’s best art exhibitionsShows by Conor O'Grady, Yuko Mohri, Patrick Horan, Robert Ryan and the Irish Architectural Archive's artists in residenceSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry TreeNakamura’s visual meditations on memory and livingSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art projectLive installation will be presented at the Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival in CorkSat Sept 14 2019 - 05:00
A meeting of minds between the abstract and the representationalThe two styles are suspicious of each other, but this exhibition gets them talkingTue Sept 10 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Strata, an exhibition by Kathy PrendergastIn upcoming exhibition in Scarborough, artist echoes one of her earliest, most celebrated worksSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
A new wave of appreciation for Agnès Varda: This week’s best art exhibitsDorothy Cross at the Kerlin and nighttime cityscapes are among the other highlightsSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
RHA exhibition shows painting is a broad-brush churchThe revamped €20,000 Hennessy Craig Award shortlist show is now a biennial affairTue Sept 03 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Untitled (Plate, Grapes, Pear & Jug) by William ScottThe elegant simplicity of Scott’s celebrated work emerged from a long apprenticeshipSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Vibrant decade of art in the Sacred Heart Hospital, CastlebarAidan Dunne: Work by Paul Hallahan and Lee Welch, Michael Flaherty, Anita GroenerSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Mandy O’Neill: Compelling portraiture with a Renaissance characterAidan Dunne: Compact survey exhibition of work by the Zurich Portrait Prize winnerTue Aug 27 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Sybil le Brocquy by Melanie le BrocquyMelanie le Brocquy’s sculptures are small in scale but quietly compellingSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best art exhibitionsFrom Raphael Hynes still lifes to Marja Van Kampen’s colourful paintings on childhoodSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Nathaniel Hone: A puzzle in the history of Irish artThe exhibition Travels of a Landscape Artist has a nagging sense of what might have beenTue Aug 20 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Michael Cullen – Studio Scene with Still Life and IrisesWicklow artist’s vibrant still life displays a keen appreciation of the daily studio routine – and much elseSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions of the weekScottish colourists, crises of our times and allegorical landscape paintingsSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
Sorolla: A master of light comes back out of the shadowsAn exhibition at the National Gallery aims to revive the Spanish painter’s reputationThu Aug 15 2019 - 05:00
Destruction, loss and recovery at Italy’s Monte CassinoAidan Dunne: Steven Nestor’s photo book on the Italian battle site, then and nowTue Aug 13 2019 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions from around the countryA range of works to explore in Louth, Roscommon, Cork, Dublin and BelfastSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Untitled (barrier) and Shelf (2019) – Niamh O’MalleyMayo artist’s work prompts us to consider the nuts and bolts – and limits – of perceptionSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
The performance artist presenting candid camera as artThis Finnish artist’s performance films interrogate codes and rules of social interactionsTue Aug 06 2019 - 05:00
The best visual arts shows to see this weekIncluding Eilish McCann in Cavan, Cork Printmakers Pop-up and Fenderesky showSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Sean Scully – InisheerBest known as a painter of stripes Scully’s stark painting vividly evokes a rugged islandSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Washing lines and magical hair: Amy Cutler’s modern fairy talesThe American’s art, on show in Kilkenny, evokes the rules that confine women’s livesSat Aug 03 2019 - 05:00
Object lessons in skilful juxtaposition of thingsOver three exhibitions, nag’s Mark St John Ellis weaves together East and West, painting and ceramics. The results are nothing less than intriguingTue Jul 30 2019 - 05:00
Wilhelmina Weber-Furlong: pioneering American modernist painterAfter nearly a century of neglect, her work is on show in a new exhibition in DublinSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – Eva Rothschild with her work AmphiIreland’s show at the Venice Biennale reflects an uneasy worldSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Five best art exhibitions to see this weekAnn Quinn paintings, The Stroker, Flux in FlowSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
Galway festival offers impressive art in occasionally underwhelming displaysGalway International Arts Festival 2019 largely overcomes issues with venuesTue Jul 23 2019 - 05:00
Marking the Bauhaus centenary: a major print exhibition in DublinNational Gallery show features prints from the 20th century’s most innovative art schoolSat Jul 20 2019 - 06:00
Five art shows to see this weekKaye Maahs, the Biophilia hypothesis and sculpture as a response to BrexitSat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Man Is in Love and Loves What Vanishes by Veronica BolayPainter considers WB Yeats’s dim view of the state of the world 100 years onSat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick filmVisual art reviews: Transcendence in Mayo from David Quinn and pop-up museum of photographyTue Jul 16 2019 - 05:00
Galway arts festival and painted poems: This week’s best visual arts showsA collection of labourers’ cottages in Co Wexford is among the other highlightsSat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus – A Mummers’ Banquet (detail) by John KindnessKindness excavates the history of hospitality at Hillsborough CastleSat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Valérie Blass: Figurative fragments of a double-life worldBrian Bourke on repeat and an expressly theatrical Jay MurphyTue Jul 09 2019 - 05:00
Art in Focus: The Blind Piper by Joseph Patrick HavertyA painting of Clare piper Pádraig Ó Briain was hugely popular in 19th-century IrelandSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
