Queen spent the last hours of her life in prayer before her execution in 1587

Auction results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

What sold in the sales rooms, and upcoming auctions and fairs

Hockney makes a splash in London sale

Results and dates for upcoming events

Valentine jewellery sale, contents of Piercetown House, online art sales

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Auction includes classic 1960s Brionvega turntable; also, Asian treasures in Kildare

Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Renting artwork can be tax efficient for new apartment developments and commercial offices and it's a great way for gallery owners to showcase well-known artists

Signed edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man fetches £17,000

Banksy has last laugh as sale of his work nets whopping £1.2m

Auctions, Results & Fairs: Strong prices for jewellery

Auctions, results and fairs dates for your diary

Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home

One of the first photographs of the moon taken in 1863 goes for €5,600

For design lovers the best travel plans involve a feast for the eyes

Auction results and forthcoming sales

Leah Hewson is on a creative roll, and is finally ditching the ‘Bono’s niece’ tag

And in Tableau, Eithne Jordan shows why she needs to paint

Auction results

Actor Stephen Rea on the late Nobel laureate’s warmth, wisdom and influence on his career

‘My style is a balance – it is modern, warm, welcoming and, I hope, comfortable’

Dublin City Council study says lack of clarity may prompt Hugh Lane board’s dissolution

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

‘The idea of art as a career never entered my head until a school trip to France when 15’

A retrospective displays the Welsh painter’s ‘art of deceptive modesty’

A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness

Developer and hotelier Paddy McKillen has turned an estate on 600 acres in the picturesque south of France into a biodynamic vineyard, and a unique art and architecture project in which well-known artists and sculptors are given creative rein

An exhibition in Cork explores how we perceive value in art and in life, raising intriguing questions about the art market in the process

For the Swiss-born artist and photographer, the unmade bed is a metaphor for the reality of daily life

Venice’s first African-born curator, Okwui Enwezor, is on a mission to clean up the spiritual home of the art world and remind us of its social and political responsibilities

The Irish-born artist doesn’t do creative block. Nor, as Beijing hosts a retrospective of his work, does he have time for westerners who ‘keep banging on about Ai Weiwei’

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

600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?

‘Every time there is gun crime it undermines the community’ says SF councillor

A new weekly column brings you curated lists from Irish Times experts. Here, our art critic suggests 10 Irish paintings worth seeking out

Among this year’s essential exhibitions is Lynch’s Biennale show, which will tour Ireland after Italy

Take a work of art out of its normal context and it can be like seeing the expensive T-shirt you splashed out on at Brown Thomas screwed up on the floor in the discount corner at TK Maxx. Is it still desirable? Does it hold its value?