Deirdre O’Mahony’s The Quickening: the unlikely star of the show is a dung beetle
One of the most striking artists working in Ireland, O’Mahony has spent her career exploring our relationships with land
One of the most striking artists working in Ireland, O’Mahony has spent her career exploring our relationships with land
Better nocturnal spaces in the capital could afford our art innovators the opportunity and audience to keep being strange and enchanting
`You question the logic of what you’re doing: whether it’s work, or whether it’s just time being spent'
Simon Harris congratulates new Provost – ‘a glass ceiling has been shattered’
Online election among 800-plus staff due to take place on Saturday morning
A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon
University closes Book of Kells exhibition and Old Library to visitors
Artists tackling the climate catastrophe in their work tread a delicate line
Metallics and sequined décor were flashpoints at the BT colletion for spring/summer 2020
Text plays a tricky role in art – as descriptors or part of the exhibit
‘Curator’ brand is first Irish-owned product in the designer segment of the market
The Art of Being Here: Brian O’Doherty’s restored murals at Sirius in Cobh are a revelation
‘I don’t like to brag about it. It was Hitler-time . . . and I somehow survived’
Telco successfully demonstrates the latest mobile technology at Dublin event
Visual art review: Abbas Akhavan’s show looks half made before it reveals its mysteries
Diarmuid Delargy photos, illustrators, Arctic art, images of past and dystopian otherness
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
Dennis Dinneen, publican, taxi driver and photographer, captured an Ireland that has now largely disappeared
The present age of anxiety has triggered a new interest in the paranormal
Douglas Hyde Gallery also gets a new curator, with Georgina Jackson taking up the post in May
The artist asks probing questions about everything from the Burren interpretive centre to the Belfast Titanic Experience
Josef Sudek was known as the poet of Prague and after returning to the city after the first World War, he never left it again
New work from Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger and Kathy Prendergast
Photographer Alec Soth, who was a painfully shy teenager, has gone on to produce one of the most socially engaged bodies of work in existence
Things resonate in Caoimhe Kilfeather’s work but usually confound your expectations
A retrospective displays the Welsh painter’s ‘art of deceptive modesty’
The vital art in Bill Lynch’s first ever exhibition (sadly posthumous) displays a heavy Chinese influence
Grace Weir’s latest films focus on her interest in science
There's a nod to visual art, the stage, and even a robot-themed 3D printing company in Gemma Tipton's selection of people to watch in the arts this year
The 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosen
The Belfast painter's work has aged very well
‘It is not the number of artists assisted, or the number of events sponsored that matter but the benefits (or value) to wider society, and hence taxpayers, that accrue from this expenditure’
The Young Curators Project throws up some fascinating takes on the landscape
Sam Keogh’s fine new exhibition explores our treatment of human remains and what it reveals about us
Far from being a corporate bauble, the AIB Art Collection, featuring Sir John Lavery, Jack B Yeats and Roderic O’Conor among others, is an exceptional showcase of 20th-century Irish work
At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness
The artist’s exhibition is a tactful, tentative intrusion into the Douglas Hyde Gallery’s brutalist fabric
Visual Arts: Gallo sets out to offer an alternative way of looking at art history
Kent subverted consumerism in her art and annoyed the church with her ideas
Andrea Büttner’s art dispenses with market value concerns and recasts humble, workaday materials
The Dublin studio has offered generous residencies for artists to live and work for 20 years. As former resident Jesse Jones puts it, ‘the space demands more of you’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices