There’s more to hanging a collection of pictures than meets the eye

David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales

The photographer on her run-in with John Wayne and her love of Grace and Frankie

The former Sex Pistol on Sam Neill, ‘nutty’ Tokyo and the star-studded restaurant The Wolseley

Singer on how David Hockney inspired his album artwork, and the energy of New York

Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

Interior designer Jacques Grange, who created homes for YSL and Sofia Coppola, is selling his collection of a lifetime

Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair

It's high time the artist was rescued from the Hollywood treatment in the film Girl with a Pearl Earring

London Letter: Tate Britain’s landmark show tells a story of courage, shame and sex

Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art

Most British writers today are Remainers. Which side would past literary giants take?

Caravaggio was tetchy and combative, quick to take offence and always ready for a fight. That energy pours from the works in a new show at the National Gallery of Ireland

Theatre manager Stephen Faloon loves his refurbished Herbert Simms house – especially the 60in flat-screen television

A retrospective of one of Ireland’s best living painters shows he is still innovating

Mother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairs

MAC exhibition, a first for Ireland, is a fine collection with a focus on drawing

First major presentation of English artist’s work in Ireland concentrates on early work

Ryan and Trevor Oakes are undertaking brilliant experiments with observation and perception, changing views on reality along the way

A disruptive power is evident in three shows that play with our perceptions of the world

The 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosen

Dancer is offering 25 pictures for sale as part of new Firedance exhibition in London

The power of these images goes far beyond their historical significance

The expanded Manchester gallery is looking to make an explosive impact

Hockney emerges as infuriatingly egotistical, at times fiercely petulant and a hard working, brave artist in this second volume of biography

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A testing fitness regime won’t make you a success, but it will probably make you dull

In her long career, the photographer has captured everyone from Jayne Mansfield to Norman Mailer. She tells how Dennis Hopper betrayed Peter Fonda and how she earned her subjects’ trust

The big deal about moving west was not just the urge to self-taught self-expression but a hazard at surviving somewhere beautiful. But discovering that days were finite, after all, was the first big reckoning of the ‘alternative’ lifestyle

Micheal Farrell, one of the greatest Irish artists of his generation, is well served by a new show

Pat Shortt discusses his new role in a recession comedy and life as a national treasure

Los Angeles has great restaurants, a thriving cultural scene, and leisure and sporting facilities to beat the band. John Butler on where to top up your culture quota, eat great food, and work it off on hiking trails and beaches

Circumstanc es of 23-year-old Dominic Elliott’s death ‘not clear’