Artists understand the desire for political change better than most
The key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems facing artists
Valentine’s in an Irish restaurant, Robert Emmet and Trump’s badger ’obsession’
News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers
Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes
The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes
The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle
Dublin Fringe Festival: What should I see this year?
The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking
The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded
Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth
Jesse Jones: On My Culture Radar
The artist on her love of historical culture, Olwen Fouéré and her guilty TV pleasure
The best visual art shows this week
Destruction of Waterford’s R&H Hall building and 60 years of Irish and Japanese fashion
Profits jump at Kelly’s in Rosslare as confidence returns
Hotel resort has spent €3m on capital projects over last few years
Women artists ‘reclaiming history we were written out of’
Artists have a rich history of activism, using their talents to take their messages out of the gallery and into the street
What’s hot this week: Book spines, witches, Goldie and Kurt
What’s not: Fair City’s Katy, fake nostalgia, 80s shoulder pads, faux fleece
Why are women artists hard to find in our ‘boy crazy’ museums and galleries?
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
Why are so many current art exhibitions fascinated by the occult?
The present age of anxiety has triggered a new interest in the paranormal
‘Are we going to let them burn us at the stake again?’ Jesse Jones’s bewitching art
Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power
'In the home and in the 8th. That’s where women belong in the Constitution'
Broadside: The Touching Contract is a new show ‘about the State and how women are affected by the law’
Going Out: The best of what’s on this weekend
A round-up of the best nights out across the country, inicluding gigs by Little Green Cars, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Mmoths and more
Ten things we learned at the Theatre of Change Symposium
Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey
Abbey’s Theatre of Change opens with the body politic
The three-day conference launches the theatre’s Waking the Nation programme
Fire Station: a space that helps artists think big
The Dublin studio has offered generous residencies for artists to live and work for 20 years. As former resident Jesse Jones puts it, ‘the space demands more of you’
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