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VISUAL ARTS:Tourette’s PaintingsDana Schutz. (And, in Gallery 2, works by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein.) Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Until September 15

Dana Schutz’s Tourette’s Paintingsat the Douglas Hyde Gallery look pretty cheerful, but they’re also quite dark in mood. They’re brightly coloured with a lot of pattern and comic-book drawing, but more often than not there’s something disturbing or unsettling going on in the frame. In Poke, an anodyne- looking man is being poked in the eye, as if in slow motion. Shaking, Cooking, Peeingis like a tetchy riposte to television cookery programmes that project images of personal and domestic perfection. It looks as if the vegetables aren’t the only things getting the chop.