Winners of Golden Fleece arts and crafts award announcedUrsula Burke, Paul Hallahan and Cecelia Moore will share €30,000 prizeThu Mar 15 2018 - 16:30
An artistic experience crafted for the modern mindIrrational Exuberance by Elva Mulchrone, Hermione Exhibition, and Nocturne by Adam PomeroyTue Mar 13 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: John Butts – View of Cork from Audley PlaceButts produced many paintings of the Cork countryside, but died penniless in DublinSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
The best art shows this week – perspectives on a great flock in feltPost impressionist landscapes, photography’s relationship with time, etherial children and elementally engaging with landscapeSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Helena Gorey: There’s more to her art than meets the eyeTo opt, as Gorey does, for monochrome compositions is brave. Is she looking for trouble?Wed Mar 07 2018 - 05:00
Five of the best art exhibitions to see this weekSuggestions of Japan; Cork Arts Society exhibition; exploring ‘life and death, religion and ritual, pain and sorrow’; existing in an age of big data; and minimalist realismSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
The Coëtivy Hours manuscript: the smartphone of its timeNest week, the Chester Beatty Library puts on display one of the greatest art works from the 15th centurySat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Art in focus: Her Own Unknown by Dragana JurišicJurišic sets out to do something unusual, to make a primarily photographic work that hinges on photographs not taken by herSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Constancy and change writ large in Louise Neiland's workLouise Neiland at the Taylor Galleries and Paul McKinley at Kevin Kavanagh GalleryTue Feb 27 2018 - 15:00
The best visual art shows and exhibitions this weekLouise Neiland’s impeccable paintings – Diverse painter-printmakers – Snagged plastic bags – Myriad Englishes – Artists at various stagesSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Hughie O’Donoghue – Island KingThis carborundum print was inspired by the story of the Inishkea islands, off Co MayoSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Human bodies taken over by anxietyLucy Beech’s short film Pharmakon is a highlight of Ex-Voto: the Body + the Institution in GalwayWed Feb 21 2018 - 05:00
Vikings in photographs and Lucian Freud Freud in focus – the week’s best art exhibitionsEven President Putin couldn’t fault Andrei Molodkin’s decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty titled ‘Failed Utopia’Sat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Donald Teskey – Valley Walk IIThis river landscape is a story of light and shade and a creek’s shimmering, mobile glintSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
An astronaut light years from home lands in Dublin galleryReview: Sam Keogh's Kapton Cadaverine has sci-fi nods to Alien and SolarisTue Feb 13 2018 - 05:00
Hand-painted panoramas, bat observations, a family mystery explored, Amsterdam, and a sisters double act: the best visual art on show this weekBelfast, Cork, Westport, Dublin and Dún Laoghaire showsSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Art in Focus: Sean Scully – Boxes of AirThe monumental sculpture shows the Irish artist’s capacity for big thinkingSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Jane O’Malley’s life drawn in black and whiteReview: A rare thing – a retrospective devoted entirely to drawingTue Feb 06 2018 - 14:15
Art in Focus: Alan Butler – Down and Out in Los SantosThis online project makes art out of a Grand Theft Auto video gameSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Emil Nolde: an artist ‘more inclined to contrast and discord’The National Gallery’s exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see the largest exhibition of the artist’s work ever shown in IrelandSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Fantastic beasts and unlikely heroes: the best visual art this weekTtopology at Visual Carlow; Sustainable Futures at Sirius Arts Centre, Zoología Fantástica at Solstice Arts Centre, and Donald Teskey goes down the river and up a creekSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Brush strokes with echoes of musicNiall de Buitléar’s paintings and sculptures start with a basic geometric motif, the circle – while Margo Dolan, Peter Maxwell and Stuart Shils put Ballycastle on the map, artisticallyWed Jan 31 2018 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions this weekSam Keogh awakes from a long sleep in space while Brian Maguire depicts the devastation in AleppoSat Jan 27 2018 - 07:00
After the deluge: Art exploring flooded landscapesArt in Focus: Bernadette Kiely’s ‘Flooded’ considers what lies beneathSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
Event of the Week: Brian Maguire – ‘War Changes its Address’The Aleppo Paintings: dismay at scale and intensity of the destruction, of place and peopleSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
A vivid dissection of social mores of English societyGrayson Perry is an unlikely pillar of the establishment, but he wears that label as lightly as he wears his dressesWed Jan 24 2018 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions this week: Grayson Perry at the RHAEncounters between the human and institutional, plus a history of Dublin in nine mapsSat Jan 20 2018 - 07:00
Ancient painting puts women centre stageArt in Focus: Painting of a Hindu woman with a covered cup,from about 1640, is extremly unusualSat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00
Visions of ordinary homes short on home comfortsVisual Art: Stephanie Deady’s paintings of sparse interiors provide a blank canvas for ideasTue Jan 16 2018 - 08:40
The best art exhibitions this weekOrdinary city scenes caught on a space camera and Tony O’Malley residency artist Stephanie Deady’s austere look at home livingSat Jan 13 2018 - 07:00
Elizabeth Magill and the art of the skeptical inquiryArt in focus: Elizabeth Magill, Headland (1)Sat Jan 13 2018 - 05:00
Dietrich Blodau’s lyrical landscapes and gritty urban scenesRetrospective of the German artist’s work is at the Hunt Museum in LimerickTue Jan 09 2018 - 13:15
How a magazine became a piece of experimental artArt in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallerySat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00
The best visual art shows this weekDestruction of Waterford’s R&H Hall building and 60 years of Irish and Japanese fashionFri Jan 05 2018 - 09:00
Rodney Graham: That’s him in the pictureVancouver School artist with a culturally vivid show at The Irish Museum of Modern ArtTue Jan 02 2018 - 08:30
From German Expressionism to Irish Modernism: art exhibitions for 2018A Mary Swanzy exhibition at Imma, a major Emil Nolde collection, a special programme of events to commemorate Alfred Chester Beatty and plenty moreSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
JMW Turner’s sensitivity to atmospheric effects was acute to point of obsessionArt in focus: Storm at the Mouth of the Grand Canal, Venice by JMW TurnerSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions this week – from Shonky in Belfast to Lennon in DublinAlso, Art@Work in Galway and The Breath from Fertile GroundsFri Dec 29 2017 - 05:00
Bruegel: one of the most evocative representations of winterArt in focus: you’ll have to make your way to Vienna to view Hunters in the SnowSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Art highlights of the weekFrom particular ocean views to exaggerating in the interests of truthFri Dec 22 2017 - 05:00
The strange, unsettling world of David Eager MaherVisual Art: David Eager Maher’s paintings blur the lines between nature and cultureTue Dec 19 2017 - 14:47
Berthe Morisot: the woman in vanguard of ImpressionismBerthe Morisot’s ‘Jour d’Eté’ can be seen and enjoyed at the Hugh Lane Gallery, DublinSat Dec 16 2017 - 10:00
Caravaggio was readers’ favourite exhibition of 2017Ticket Awards: Vermeer at National Gallery of Ireland comes in second placeSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions this week – from 2°C in Dublin to Outposts in CorkAlso, Arrival in Dún Laoghaire and David Eager Maher’s LocusFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Beit Foundation settles death duty dispute with a paintingThe Cornfield by Jacob van Ruisdael will now go to the Ulster Museum in BelfastThu Dec 14 2017 - 16:33
Is this fake radio station even better than the real thing?Gerard Byrne reckons commercial radio is genius minimalist artwork. So he built his ownWed Dec 13 2017 - 05:00
Hungarian Game of Thrones and meditations on mapsVIsual art reviews: From Fake Mountains to Faith by Szabolcs KissPál; and The nature of drifting by Ulrich VoglTue Dec 12 2017 - 08:00
A chronicler of the humble dignity of everyday lifeArt in focus: Jack B Yeats’s 'Men of Destiny' can accommodate a range of thematic concernsSat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
The best art exhibitions this week – from Winter Open Exhibition to Pop-Up 2017Also, Self-Reflections in Banbridge, Turbulence in Sligo and Interfaces in The BurrenFri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00
Explorations in a planetary version of the ‘Marie Celeste’In a vast central space of what seems to be an art gallery, a display of strange, sculptural objectsTue Dec 05 2017 - 10:53
