‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago
‘There’s this magical performance that’s nothing to do with drugs’
As he retires, Mick Egan looks back at 30 years working with addicts in art and drama
Dublin Bowie Festival celebrates The Man Who Sold the World
Gig of the week: producer Tony Visconti and drummer Woody Woodmansey are guests
Lou Reed the rock poet: When should songs be considered poetry?
Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme
Cathal Coughlan: ‘Microdisney ran its course. Let’s just leave it’
The songwriter on the end of the group, his solo work and Cork’s ‘human architecture’
How a magazine became a piece of experimental art
Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery
Walter Becker: Steely Dan guitarist, songwriter and avocado farmer
Obituary: Becker made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies
An alternative history of art of the last century
Exhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in art
David Bowie remembered: What we’ve learned since his death
Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year
A lost New York rescued from the bunker of William Burroughs
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
Dramatic awakenings: the theatre that changed my life
Five nominees for Irish Times theatre awards recall a performance that inspired them and informed their own approaches
David Bowie offered us a template; nothing would ever be the same again
The singer showed to be outside was where it was at and provoked and inspired by example. He showed us how we had to “own it” to set ourselves free
Blowin’ our mind: what Van Morrison means to us
‘A punk before punk was a twinkle in its eye-linered eye,’ says poet Paul Muldoon. How do other fans and friends sum him up?
Five artists push Tallaght’s boundaries | Visual art round-up
The Young Curators Project throws up some fascinating takes on the landscape
Death of former Evening Press journalist Seán McCann
Hailed by Con Houlihan as ‘a brilliant features editor’
Alexis Stamatis: ‘I read to find myself again and to re-examine my place in the world’
Brought to Book Q&A: Greek novelist and poet on Emily Dickinson and Robert Mouzil
Outhouse library: a new home in Dublin for LGBT literature
Ciarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the process
Cloudy with a chance of artistic smiley faces
Stuart Semple says creative therapy saved his life, and since then he has championed its cause, created a cracking body of work and taken on Charles Saatchi
Magical mystery tour: ‘The public weren’t aware the Beatles had changed’
Paul Howard chats to ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ collaborator Gerry Harrison about Tara Browne (the reputed subject of ‘A Day in the Life’), 1967 and LSD
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