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The art of being human

Visual Arts Just before Christmas in 1994, three potholers, including Jean-Marie Chauvet, were checking out a cave near Avignon…

Sat May 10 2003 - 01:00

A strange, but compelling sound world

There's nothing obvious about The Pleasure Of Compulsive Self-Destruction, which had its first public performance at St Patrick…

Wed Apr 09 2003 - 01:00

See the world in black and white

VISUAL ARTS: Greyscale/CMYK , RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, until April 27th (01-6612558)

Wed Mar 26 2003 - 00:00

Landscapes without irony

VISUAL ARTS: The photographs that make up Carmel Cleary's exhibition Passage, at the Garter Lane Arts Centre, are beautiful …

Wed Mar 19 2003 - 00:00

Like running into the Marx Brothers

REVIEWED: Permaculture , Project, Dublin, until March 22nd (1850-260027)

Wed Feb 19 2003 - 00:00

A new Arcadia near Bagenalstown

Stephen McKenna's exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery depicts a rural Ireland almost excessive in its accumulation of benign…

Mon Feb 17 2003 - 00:00

Eight artistic decades of fresh and tough aesthetics

A visit to Co Mayo in 1994 proved a turning point in the life of artist Nancy Wynne-Jones, writes Aidan Dunne

Mon Jan 06 2003 - 00:00

An initiation into occult symbolism

VISUAL ARTS:  Reviewed: José Bedia, RHA Ely Place, Dublin, until January 5th (tel: 01-6612558);Friendship of the Peoples, Goshka…

Mon Dec 30 2002 - 00:00

Obsession pursued with delicacy

VISUAL ARTS: Miroslaw Balka, whose exhibition, dig dug dug, is at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, has rapidly acquired the reputation…

Fri Dec 20 2002 - 00:00

The Catalan at Kilmainham

Enrique Juncosa, the new director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, is a Catalan with an impressive pedigree

Tue Nov 12 2002 - 00:00

Museum appoints Spanish director

The Irish Museum of Modern Art follows in the footsteps of London's Tate Modern when it announces the appointment of a new director…

Mon Nov 11 2002 - 00:00

When machines take on a life of their own

Visual Arts: The machine that thinks and feels has been an object of speculative fascination for centuries, not least because…

Wed Aug 07 2002 - 01:00

Moving out of control

Both theoretical physics and a French philosopher inform the work of artist Grace Weir

Tue Jul 09 2002 - 01:00

Subtle approach gets the message across

John Duncan's Boom Town at the Gallery of Photography is a terrific exhibition

Wed Jul 03 2002 - 01:00

Stealing beauty: the three thefts from the Beit collection

The exact circumstances surrounding the three major thefts of paintings from the Beit Collection at Russborough, in 1974, 1986…

Tue Jul 02 2002 - 01:00

Gallery offers public taste of American art

The National Gallery of Ireland yesterday began cranking up its publicity machine for the successor to its sell-out Impressionist…

Thu May 23 2002 - 01:00

A landmark year at the RHA

VISUAL ARTS : There is a celebratory air to this year's RHA Annual Exhibition, a feeling that the event marks something of a…

Wed May 22 2002 - 01:00

Two methods of making sense of the ordinary

Reviewed The Land of Ousss, Koo Jeong-a, Douglas Hyde Gallery until June 1st (01-6081116) Constructed for Leisure, Darren Murray…

Wed May 15 2002 - 01:00

Chester Beatty Library is European Museum of the Year

The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin has won the European Museum of the Year Award 2002.

Tue May 14 2002 - 01:00

Images captured under an impossibly blue Ulster sky

Reviewed

Wed Apr 24 2002 - 01:00

Looking at the spaces behind the town

Reviewed Oliver Comerford, Get Here, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery until April 27th (01-8740064)

Fri Apr 12 2002 - 01:00

Contemporary artists in search of a subtitle

Reviewed: EV+A 2002 Open and Invited, Limerick City Gallery of Art and other venues until June 9th (061-310633) Sometimes, Limerick…

Wed Mar 27 2002 - 00:00

The coherence of chaos

VISUAL ART : One of the art reviewer's classic dodges is to say that such and such a work exhibits contradictory qualities, …

Wed Mar 06 2002 - 00:00

Art that recasts a city park as a Garden of Eden

VISUAL ART/Aidan Dunne: Michael Kane has been a distinctive, slightly truculent presence on the Irish art scene since the 1960s…

Wed Feb 27 2002 - 00:00

Animal magic?

It may not be immediately apparent why Paul Nugent calls his exhibition The Franciscan Series

Thu Feb 14 2002 - 00:00

Animal magic?

It may not be immediately apparent why Paul Nugent calls his exhibition The Franciscan Series

Wed Feb 13 2002 - 00:00

Life's confusions and contradictions

Betweem his exhibition Becoming More Like Us and nightly outdoor screenings of his video Mislim Neznam/I Mean I Don't Know , …

Wed Feb 06 2002 - 00:00

By the watery light

OBSERVER: Charlie Brady's paintings eliminate any hint of drama orpretension - yet the eye is drawn to them, writes Aidan Dunne…

Sat Feb 02 2002 - 00:00

Benefiting from the generosity of an unlikely art collector

Profile Of A Collection, IMMA, Dublin, until June 23rd:  When the Irish Museum of Modern Art was being established a little …

Wed Jan 30 2002 - 00:00

Sins of the flesh

Eccentric and determinedly unmodern, Stanley Spencer was marginalised in his day, and even now his frank depictions of flesh …

Mon Jan 28 2002 - 00:00

Who's going to run IMMA now?

It looks as if the Irish Museum of Modern Art is going to headhunt its new director

Mon Jan 07 2002 - 00:00

A rewardingly obsessive attention to artistic detail

Reviewed

Wed Jan 02 2002 - 00:00

Having to come face to face with ourselves

Reviewed

Fri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00

Visual Art

The art publishing phenomenon if 2001 was David Hockney's best-selling Secret Knowledge ( Thames & Hudson, £35 in UK), a …

Sat Dec 08 2001 - 00:00

Artists who take new angles on the square

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Wed Dec 05 2001 - 00:00

Installations of bodies loitering with intent

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Wed Nov 28 2001 - 00:00

The art of living dangerously

If you visited the Irish Museum of Modern Art over the weekend of October 19th-21st this year, you were bound to experience some…

Wed Nov 28 2001 - 00:00

Paintings with glimpses of the human form

Reviewed

Wed Nov 21 2001 - 00:00

Mediating the mutabilities of landscape

Donald Urquhart's exhibition Fields, which has just finished its run at Kilkenny's Butler Gallery and opens next week at the …

Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00

Art that's off the walls

Willie Doherty is prominent among a generation of Northern artists whose work has been decisively shaped by the Troubles

Wed Nov 14 2001 - 00:00

'If I write something down it's already old'

Dave Hickey is a West Coast kind of guy

Fri Nov 09 2001 - 00:00

A painter's building blocks

Reviewed

Thu Nov 08 2001 - 00:00

Unleashing art in Portlaoise

Reviewed: Laois Arts Festival exhibitions

Thu Nov 01 2001 - 00:00

From the outside in

Reviewed: Michael Craig-Martin, Landscapes, Douglas Hyde Gallery until November 23rd (01-6081116)

Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:00

When the cows are answering back

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Wed Oct 17 2001 - 01:00

The art of making faces

For the Celts, the head was the magic box that held the spirit prisoner

Sat Oct 13 2001 - 01:00

Art as therapy bears fruit in Limerick

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Fri Oct 12 2001 - 01:00

Textbook conceptual art

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Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00

When you wish a tree were just a tree

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Wed Sept 26 2001 - 01:00

Maintaining classical calm in life's flux

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Wed Sept 19 2001 - 01:00
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