Working.DrawingThe Dock, St George’s Terrace, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim Tues-Sat 10am- 6pm until Apr 7 071-9650828
Hearts of stoneWith her new show at Visual in Carlow, Eileen MacDonagh has finally realised her dream: to exhibit her vast stone art works inside a gallery, rather than having them on show outside, writes AIDAN DUNNE
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Building blocks: What happens when architects turn their hand to art?Unlike artists, architects have practical responsibilities to the people who enter their buildings. With the right mix, however, a special blend can emerge
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Would the last postmodernist please turn out the lights?CULTURE SHOCK: Postmodernism means picking over the corpse of culture, using irony as the main tool. But in a time of economic crisis, art about art can feel irrelevant and disengaged, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE
The precise process in keeping it realCarey Clarke’s retrospective at the RHA shows how this respected artist’s painterly realism is not a virtuosic trick but something hard-earned
