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Joggers by Michael Kane

Michael Kane: A fierce integrity to be applauded

Aidan Dunne
November 15, 2016

Reading, writing and publishing have been significant areas of endeavour, not distinct from printmaking and painting, but all facets of one imagination, one sensibility

John Behan’s “The Bull of Easter II”: “an ingenious amalgam of biology and technology”

Behan sculpts a Rising vision; McKeever colours in nature au naturel

Aidan Dunne
November 8, 2016

Review: John Behan at the Solomon and Marion McKeever at the Assembly House

Edgy: work by John Coyle and Gary Coyle in Now Came Still Evening On at the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon

Fathers and son in the frame: two Coyles and the Yeats patriarch impress

Aidan Dunne
November 1, 2016

John and Gary Coyle share hints of discord; John Butler Yeats demands close viewing

Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear’ (1889). Photograph: Peter Barritt/Getty Images/SuperStock RM

Why did van Gogh cut off his ear? New evidence emerges

October 31, 2016

‘News of impending wedding’ may have motivated artist to remove piece of his ear

The Kalashnikov – a design classic

Design is seen as a good thing but it has a dark side

Lisa Godson
October 29, 2016

Design and Violence at the Science Gallery shows destructive and intimidating objects

Piece by Anita Groener in Facebook’s Dublin office. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh

How great thou art: Facebook embraces Irish creativity

Aidan Dunne
October 28, 2016

Dublin HQ of the social media giant is a hotbed of artistic activity and dynamism

RDS Visual Arts Awards finalists: Dr Nadia Kelbova by Justyna Kielbowicz.

RDS Visual Arts Awards: encouraging a new generation

Gemma Tipton
October 28, 2016

Revamped event, with prize fund of €20,000, showcases the work of emerging artists

Johanne Mullan, collections programmer at Imma, with Lucian Freud’s “The Painter’s Mother Resting” at a preview of the Freud Project 2016-2021. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Lucian Freud: important retrospective comes to Imma

Aidan Dunne
October 26, 2016

The 50 pieces in Freud Project are invaluable opportunity to assess British painter’s work

Hong Ling: A Peak of Reds

Hong Ling: retrospective of a great living Chinese artist

Aidan Dunne
October 25, 2016

Huangshan region and landscape informs Hong Ling’s work

Detail from La Lecture, 1877, by Henri Fantin-Latour. Photograph: Alain Basset/© Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Henri Fantin-Latour: ‘The painter of silence’

Lara Marlowe
October 22, 2016

The first monographic exhibition in Paris since 1982 of the neglected 19th century master

Blue Drift 5, by Graham Crowley

In debt to Constable: Graham Crowley’s magic modern art

Aidan Dunne
October 18, 2016

Artists’s response to ‘The Hay Wain’ is not nostalgia but modernity. Plus Stephen Loughman is inspired by WI postcards and Brian Fay explores time and change

Three Women (1908), by Pablo Picasso, comes from the Hermitage museum in Saint-Petersburg.

Loadsa Monet: the rich Russian who patroned Picasso, made Matisse

Lara Marlowe
October 18, 2016

After being trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Russia’s Shchukin collection, including works by Picasso and Matisse, is back in Paris for a blockbuster show

The sale of works given to Dalí’s patron and friend Edward James, is expected to raise up to €2.8 million. Photograph: Christie’s Images. 2016

Salvador Dalí’s lobster telephone and Mae West lips sofa to be sold at auction

October 17, 2016

Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects to be sold by Christie’s

Giving Donald Trump the finger, Hollywood style

Kenneth O'Halloran
October 15, 2016

Irish photographer Ken O’Halloran on documenting Americans’ pilgrimage to Hollywood Boulevard, where they vent their anti-Trump anger in inventive ways

Silent Moves: the title and action of the piece recall the slapstick comedy of Buster Keaton

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2015 – Silent Moves, by Aideen Barry, Emma O’Kane, Ridgepool Training Centre and Scannán Technologies

Catherine Marshall
October 15, 2016

The people’s choice for our final artwork was a collaborative project about the challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities in a society that still restricts their behaviour

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: Irish road to modernity has no straight lines

Fintan O'Toole
October 15, 2016

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Model Melina Gesto in a Ramones T-shirt in Paris, France. Photograph:Melodie Jeng/Getty Images

I’m with the T-shirt: how a punk band invented a design classic

Brian Boyd
October 14, 2016

Ramones top is still a fashion staple, 40 years on, underlining the power of good design

A still from Jaki Irvine’s video and sound installation If the Ground Should Open . . . which will be in the Imma in December

If the Ground Should Open... review: Anglo Tapes loom large

Aidan Dunne
October 11, 2016

Installation focuses on women of Rising and corporate Ireland greed 100 years later

The Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square in Dublin city is a registered charity. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Board’s future at Hugh Lane Gallery called into question

Mark Hilliard
October 11, 2016

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

‘The Baptism of the King of Cashel by St Patrick’ by James Barry.

Great moments in Irish history captured on the canvas

Aidan Dunne
October 8, 2016

A new exhibition at the National Gallery shows Ireland’s history in 55 paintings, and reveals a few secrets if you look carefully

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