The creative sweet spot: you can find it in your (very early) sleep
Research shows accessing a hypnagogic state as you drift into sleep can unlock creativity
Research shows accessing a hypnagogic state as you drift into sleep can unlock creativity
Painting of late SDLP founder by Irish artist Vincent Devine worth €50,000
Culloden Estate to host Holywood International Art and Sculpture Art Fair in June
America at Large: Monday is 50th anniversary of first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier bout
Review: Fast-paced documentary of a hard-edged US media showman
And, more importantly, will we be able to watch him star in Dune from a cinema seat?
Many of the world’s great museums are now available on screen, but what exactly do you get for your click?
Rare and unsual incense burners set for sale in Co Laois
Briefing for visit of Crown Prince Abdullah also advised covering wine bottles with ‘veil’
For Loco por Lorca, Theo Dorgan and Cormac Breatnach made a joyous tapestry of four cultures and four languages
Fonsie Mealy’s sale features a bed thought to have been owned by Napoleon’s wife
Wicklow exhibition and sale includes work from Irish and international sculptors
‘I think the industry has been too traditional’, says the Elon Musk of the nautical world
Westminster chaos affords preview of Britain standing alone with its demons
Malachy Clerkin looks at some of the volumes taking up the sports sections this year
Feast and famine: food grows, gives life, rots – no wonder artists see its power to reveal life’s truths
Ian Gibson has lived in Spain for decades and is best known for his work on the poet Federico García Lorca
Sleep deprivation has been linked to a long list of health problems, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression and obesity
The Dubliner scours European cities to find vintage furniture for interiors back home
Paris Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at Montparnasse
The self-proclaimed executioner of the last taboos of the Western world on his Irish blood, not drinking – and finding religion
Pilar Abel claimed her mother had an affair with the Spanish surrealist artist in 1955
Embalmer says artist’s body ‘like wood’ after samples collected to settle paternity claim
Artist died in 1989 and is buried in his museum in the north-eastern town of Figueres
St John’s Eve was an occasion for major bonfires all over our part of the world in those days
I’m fairly minimalist. I like clean, sharp lines and neutral colours
Writer and art historian Francesco Spampinato explores collaborations between musician and artists in his new book Art Record Covers
The Illusionists, who are coming to Ireland, cast a spell over charmed journalists in Paris
Study of work by major artists could help in earlier diagnosis of degenerative illness
Novelist moved to Ireland in 1968 and his best-known works are partially or totally set here
Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects to be sold by Christie’s
Amid some of the most world’s popular holiday destinations can be found hidden cultural gems of art, museums, gardens and festival
Sheer, dizzying, heartbreaking brilliance: superfan Joseph O'Connor's selects his playlist
Paula Rowan’s latest collection of gloves was inspired by the colours of the sea, which sparkle through the unadorned windows of her Sandycove apartment
With war and conflict affecting some popular tourist haunts this summer, more people are returning to old reliables such as Spain. Conor Pope finds 10 of the more offbeat – and affordable – destinations
The powerful, disturbing work of the Dutch painter, who died 500 years ago, tells us a great deal about the anxieties of his time
Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated
US professor speaks about the artist’s interests as part of Maths Week
Events North and South demonstrate fun aspects of maths - as well as subject’s importance
Imma is showing a body of work by a contemporary of Frida Kahlo and Dali who has long been under-appreciated in a country that inspired much of her work: Ireland
An exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves diverge
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