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- 'Radharc' - the best view in New York
Thu, May 24, 2012An exhibition by six contemporary Irish painters on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan offers a perfect platform for their work – and especially so given there’s also a hot attraction across the road at the Met, writes
SINEAD GLEESON - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 19, 2012Hunt Museum - A history of Ireland in 100 objects
Sat, May 19, 2012In 1950, in the course of rebuilding works on an old house in Summerhill in Co Meath, this remarkable stone was found behind a blocked doorway. It had been in a window recess of a secret sealed-up chamber. It is a rough piece of sandstone. - Nice building, but what about the art?
Sat, May 12, 2012Giant furniture, ho-hum paintings, and a curatorial reshuffle: the Mac, Belfast’s ambitious new arts centre, needs a clear direction to go with the bold statements - King William's gauntlets, circa 1690
Sat, May 12, 2012 A history of Ireland in 100 objects : On the morning of July 14th, 1690, King William III presented these fine doeskin gloves to John Dillon, in whose home in Lismullin, Co Meath, he had stayed the previous night. The king had reason to be in a buoyant mood: he had won a major victory over his rival King James II at the nearby River Boyne two days previously. - The original Japanese sci-fi story
Fri, May 11, 2012Scrolls depicting one of the oldest Japanese stories are on display in the Chester Beatty, and their beauty, colour and format still effectively tells a very familiar story even several centuries later, writes
GEMMA TIPTON - Between a rock and an urban place
Thu, May 10, 2012Artist Mary Nally was struck by the potential of Inis Oírr for a festival where the visual arts, DJ-ing, music, design, architecture and fashion could connect, writes
AIDAN DUNNE - Books of Survey and Distribution, mid 17th century
Sat, May 5, 2012 A history of Ireland in 100 objects: There are very few plainer objects in this series, but none that is more consequential. The so-called Books of Survey and Distribution, compiled between the 1650s and 1680s, record in microcosm the seismic shift in the ownership of land in Ireland after the Cromwellian conquest. The class of Catholic proprietors, of both indigenous and Anglo-Norman descent, was all but swept away. - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 5, 2012 COLLINS BARRACKS: What is it? The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts History, at Collins Barracks in Dublin, is the largest of the museum’s four sites, three of which are in Dublin and the other of which is in Turlough Park, in Co Mayo. The museum converted the early neoclassical building, designed by Col Thomas Burgh as a military barracks, in 1997. - $120m for a painting? That's a scream
Fri, May 4, 2012FOR A RELATIVELY small, simple painting, Edvard Munch’s The Scream exercises an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination. It’s up there with the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in terms of iconographic status. - Google's window on the world of art
Wed, May 2, 2012The new Google Art Project by the world’s favourite search engine isn’t everything – there are copyright issues, some of Ireland’s best artists don’t feature – but it is fascinating and addictive, writes
GEMMA TIPTON - A history of Ireland in 100 objects
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Fleetwood Cabinet, circa 1652
- Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Swiss Cottage - For DIY, take some Swords to the material
Fri, Apr 27, 2012Mark Swords’s latest exhibition is at once rough-hewn and painstakingly crafted, works of art that reflect the energy bound up in their own making, writes
AIDAN DUNNE - Jackson set to trip the light fantastic againFri, Apr 27, 2012 SMALL PRINT: THERE WERE gasps when the rapper Tupac Shakur showed up onstage at the recent Coachella music festival in the US. Shakur, one of music’s most influential rappers, appeared with Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre – despite being shot dead in 1996.
- A new little literary ideaFri, Apr 27, 2012 SMALL PRINT: LAUNCHED LAST month, the South Circular is a small but significant step in Irish e-publishing.
- Capturing souls, one pic at a timeFri, Apr 27, 2012 SMALL PRINT: JOHN MINIHAN is one of Ireland’s finest photographers, and a new exhibition at the United Arts Club in Dublin celebrates his work.
- Louis le Brocquy: Portrait of the artist
Thu, Apr 26, 2012Louis le Brocquy revitalised the tired genre of portraiture and turned it into an ‘archaeology of the spirit’, and it is this, along with his personal charm and open intelligence, that secured his reputation in the arts world, writes
AIDAN DUNNE - A history of Ireland in 100 objects O'Queally Chalice, 1640
Sat, Apr 21, 2012This superb silver chalice declares its origins very clearly. Engraved on the base in Latin is “Malachy O’Queally Doctor of Sacred Theology from Paris and Archbishop of Tuam had this chalice made for the convent of friars minor of Rosserrilly [Co Galway], 1640.” O’Queally, with his continental connections, was representative of the key role of the Franciscans in re-creating an Irish Catholic identity after the Flight of the Earls. Driven by the scholar and historian Luke Wadding, the order established the Irish colleges at Louvain and Rome and re-established their own houses in Ireland. - Between the darkness and the light
Wed, Apr 18, 2012DARKNESS AND LIGHT can be very close to one another, and it’s not always clear which is which. The first thing you hear if you walk into the gallery at the Cable Factory in Helsinki is the drone of aeroplanes.
