Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives two fingers to adversity with a striking line-up
Ranging from opera to a skatepark installation, the programme marks an extraordinary balancing act
Shortlist for national portrait prize to go on show at National Gallery of Ireland
Photography features strongly, with Kim Haughton’s study of the late JP Donleavy, Fionn McCann’s Cezanne’s Apple and Mandy O’Neill’s striking study, Diane
Painting of ‘Black and White Coffee Pot’ by William Scott fetches €65,000 at de Veres
Diamond ring makes €73,900 at John Weldon
Demand for Irish art is high as market ‘due a price jump’
Art auctioneer says prices down 40-50% from peak but recovery is in sight
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show
Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises
Female portraits to go on RIA’s walls for first time in 230 years
‘Women on Walls’ project aims to redress imbalance and inspire other offices to do same
Improvised Music Company: Giving structure to Irish jazz
Since 1991, IMC has helped promote jazz and bring European musicians together
Orla Kelly: 'Why I'm all about blue'
Colour is a big part of Kelly’s Kilkenny home, but she also has a passion for ceramics
Fresh impressions: female portraits on walls
There’s a severe dearth of women in portaits on Irish walls, and the Royal Irish Academy is doing its bit to redress the balance
‘Poignant’ Jack B Yeats painting in RDS show
Whyte’s auction highlight is a ‘rare depiction of urban life in 1920s Ireland’. The show also includes work by Paul Henry, Patrick Hennessy, Edmond Delrenne and Blaise Smith
Interiors special: a house with a big personality
The blasts of colour and eclectic decor running through this Rathmines, Dublin 6, home give it a sense of fun, quirkiness and individuality, writes Elizabeth Birdthistle
New board for under-fire National College of Art and Design
Audited accounts up to the end of 2012 have now been presented to C&AG, says college
A bus brings Mad Max to Carlow | Visual Arts round-up
Bedwyr Williams shows us a broken-down future; while Gypsy Ray’s photographs display great warmth
No need for anxiety as Tulca engages in Galway
Its theme is the anxiety of life in the modern world, but the annual festival is rock steady
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