The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Douglas Hyde Gallery
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
What’s next for … Dublin’s experimental nighttime culture?
Better nocturnal spaces in the capital could afford our art innovators the opportunity and audience to keep being strange and enchanting
Representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, Niamh O’Malley finds inspiration in the everyday
`You question the logic of what you’re doing: whether it’s work, or whether it’s just time being spent'
Trinity College Dublin names Linda Doyle as first woman provost in 429 years
Simon Harris congratulates new Provost – ‘a glass ceiling has been shattered’
Trinity to elect first woman provost in 429-year history
Online election among 800-plus staff due to take place on Saturday morning
‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’
A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon
Trinity introduces online classes in bid to limit coronavirus threat
University closes Book of Kells exhibition and Old Library to visitors
The tricky art of carbon footprints
Artists tackling the climate catastrophe in their work tread a delicate line
Brown Thomas spring/summer fashion show: shorts are set to be the season’s bestsellers
Metallics and sequined décor were flashpoints at the BT colletion for spring/summer 2020
What a load of smetch: new words to describe art
Text plays a tricky role in art – as descriptors or part of the exhibit
General Paints launching new paint brand after €1m investment
‘Curator’ brand is first Irish-owned product in the designer segment of the market
Artist’s hidden murals emerge after 20 years
The Art of Being Here: Brian O’Doherty’s restored murals at Sirius in Cobh are a revelation
Art and architecture: from Dorothy Smith’s drawings to Liliane Lijn’s sharp eye
‘I don’t like to brag about it. It was Hitler-time . . . and I somehow survived’
Vodafone Ireland promises 5G rollout within 24 months
Telco successfully demonstrates the latest mobile technology at Dublin event
A show that looks at the secret life of plants from Babylon
Visual art review: Abbas Akhavan’s show looks half made before it reveals its mysteries
Best art exhibitions this week
Diarmuid Delargy photos, illustrators, Arctic art, images of past and dystopian otherness
Why are women artists hard to find in our ‘boy crazy’ museums and galleries?
A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions
Small Town Portraits: poignant pictures of 1950s Ireland
Dennis Dinneen, publican, taxi driver and photographer, captured an Ireland that has now largely disappeared
Why are so many current art exhibitions fascinated by the occult?
The present age of anxiety has triggered a new interest in the paranormal
Eva International announces Matt Packer as new director
Douglas Hyde Gallery also gets a new curator, with Georgina Jackson taking up the post in May
From the Burren to Belfast: Sean Lynch removes our heritage from its neat packaging
The artist asks probing questions about everything from the Burren interpretive centre to the Belfast Titanic Experience
What happens when you spend most of your life photographing one city
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
Art review: unexpected views at ‘Slips and Glimpses’ and the world map reimagined
New work from Robert Armstrong, Anna Bjerger and Kathy Prendergast
People in the picture: ‘We are all part of the human comedy’
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
Visual Art: When the gallery becomes a disconcerting garden
Things resonate in Caoimhe Kilfeather’s work but usually confound your expectations
Visual art: The unpredictable magic of Merlin James
A retrospective displays the Welsh painter’s ‘art of deceptive modesty’
Visual art round-up: East meets West in the centre of the void
The vital art in Bill Lynch’s first ever exhibition (sadly posthumous) displays a heavy Chinese influence
Visual art round-up: How to capture an image of a black hole
Grace Weir’s latest films focus on her interest in science
People to watch in 2016: Arts
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
Visual art round-up: On the trail of Jack the Ripper in Drogheda
The 40 pieces from the UK’s Arts Council Collection on show in Drogheda are expertly chosen
Visual art round-up: Brian Ballard’s paintings get better with age
The Belfast painter's work has aged very well
Weighing up the value of the arts in Ireland
‘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’
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The Young Curators Project throws up some fascinating takes on the landscape
Bring up the bodies – and have a good look at them | Visual arts round-up
Sam Keogh’s fine new exhibition explores our treatment of human remains and what it reveals about us
The AIB art collection: here’s one the bankers got right
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
Rose Wylie’s goal: to paint like a five-year-old
At 81, the British artist is gaining recognition by avoiding artifice and artiness
Niamh O’Malley’s films draw us in close
The artist’s exhibition is a tactful, tentative intrusion into the Douglas Hyde Gallery’s brutalist fabric
Peter Gallo’s intensely personal art of chicken bones and ‘skin’
Visual Arts: Gallo sets out to offer an alternative way of looking at art history
Corita Kent: the radical nun who became ‘Warhol with a conscience’
Kent subverted consumerism in her art and annoyed the church with her ideas
When poverty is a virtue: ‘art is not a commodity for rich people’
Andrea Büttner’s art dispenses with market value concerns and recasts humble, workaday materials
Fire Station: a space that helps artists think big
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’
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