Dalkey Book Festival, The Killers and other events to see, shows to book and ones coming your way this week
June 8th-14th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
June 8th-14th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Hilary Fannin: I felt sad I missed an opportunity to yield to Laurie Anderson’s art
The musician and artist on CD-roms, cancel culture and her new show, The Art of Falling
The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
The artist on ‘dangerous’ Andy Kaufman and the viral fear spreading in New York
Principal venue for classical concerts in Republic records a loss in excess of €41,000
Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up
How much harder it is for a star to deliver records that matter when, like Madonna, they have passed their 60th birthday?
Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America’ won four awards and Lady Gaga’s ‘Shallow’ from the movie ‘A Star Is Born’ won two
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
My transplant is not a cure for cystic fibrosis, but it means the threat to my life is gone for now
The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times
In conversation: Sally Foran and David Kitt
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet: Landfall, Nonesuch, 2 stars
Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant
For guitarist Gerry Leonard, the city itself has been his ‘biggest teacher’
And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up
What’s not: the myriad of moths and seriously underweight high street mannequins
‘The building looks imposing, officious. Getting people in the door is a big thing’
A new book asks music critics and fans that very question, and as you'd expect, the answers vary widely
Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs
CF campaigner Orla Tinsley responds to ‘devastating’ rejection of the drug she says has transformed her quality of life
Anderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, is an unmentioned presence in a sweetly sentimental tribute
From half-hearted applause to total starman: David Bowie’s biggest Irish gigs remembered
Late American singer’s fortune includes musical rights but not his homes in New York
To create her new tUnE-yArDs album, Merrill Garbus kept strict hours in the studio, writing songs and reading James Joyce. ‘He was one who really shifted what words could do,’ says the fast-talking ex-puppeteer
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices