Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Patricia Piccinini: ‘We’re hard-wired to be suspicious of difference’
The Australian artist exhibits a wilderness of imagined creatures for the Galway International Arts Festival. The works challenge our empathy and revulsion
The forgotten women Impressionists: Far more than models, muses or mothers
Celebrating the anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, our National Gallery shows four pioneering women artists
Lady of the house: Astronomers, botanists and antiquarians are the women behind some of Ireland’s great houses
Women have played an often unsung role in the history of Ireland, and of our great houses. This summer, why not take a trip to visit them?
All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield: How rich people ruin art
Art dealer and gallerist digs into his friendship with fraudster Inigo Philbrick to portray a world of greed far removed from the struggle of painters
The extraordinary art of Tino Sehgal is coming to Cork. It has has to be seen to be believed
The artist eschews objects to create ‘constructed situations’, and does not document his works – luckily they are unforgettable
The best hotels for art lovers in Ireland and across Europe
From an ultra luxurious base for the Venice Biennale to Salvador Dalí days in Co Cork
5,313 works submitted, 515 on show: RHA Annual Exhibition 2024 ready to be unveiled
This year’s show includes plenty of powerful work, as well as prices that range from €50 to €60,000. But younger painters are notable by their absence
Dozy dozen: 12 of the best spots to get 40 winks in Ireland and overseas
Sleep tourism is booming, as the pressures of modern life press in on us. How far are you willing to go for sweet oblivion?
Inside Ireland’s government nuclear fallout shelter: ‘It’s more a basement than a bunker’
A ‘secret’ facility in Athlone was designated the national control centre during the cold war. We visit with a group of artists
‘You get to hear the maddest stories … the saddest stories’: unlocking memories with family photos
Family snaps can release memories when we and our loved ones need them most, as a project by Photo Museum Ireland reveals
Visual art reviews: Each Now, Is the time, the Space; and Aleana Egan: Second-hand
Group shows can create brilliant conversations, but unless you are familiar with the work of these artists, you may need help to get in
The blink of an eye: Great street photography that finds magic in the mundane
A new festival in Dublin captures the glorious, random, intimate moments of everyday life
Eilís O’Connell and Mona Hatoum at Visual, Carlow: mysterious yet simultaneously unequivocal
Abstract art speaks of refuge and evacuation while recalling the engines of war that underpin such things
Deirdre O’Mahony’s The Quickening: the unlikely star of the show is a dung beetle
One of the most striking artists working in Ireland, O’Mahony has spent her career exploring our relationships with land