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Windfall by Paul Ringrose

A stark climate change warning in a devastated Cork woodland

Aidan Dunne
December 11, 2018

Paul Ringrose’s new paintings address show a shattered place where trees have been snapped like matchsticks

Art highlights from 2018 include the Roderic O’Conor show at the National Gallery (centre)

Art is thriving in a time of cultural disruption

Aidan Dunne
December 8, 2018

Year in Culture Review: Commercial galleries are under pressure despite rising economy but art still thrives

Cattle in Winter, Phoenix Park, Oil on board, John Skelton. Jorgensen Fine Art

Strange Bedfellows and stocking fillers: this week’s best visual arts

Aidan Dunne
December 8, 2018

Check out the Christmas exhibitions, and pick up some artworks for under €500

For GRS by Colin Davidson

Art in Focus: For GRS by Colin Davidson

Aidan Dunne
December 8, 2018

A painter best known for his realist portraits turns to floral still life

Johannes Vermeer: Girl With a Pearl Earring. Photograph: Mauritshuis/Google Arts & Culture/New York Times

Do you want to see all of Vermeer’s works in the world? Now you can

Nina Siegal
December 6, 2018

A new augmented reality gallery brings the Dutch master’s 36 paintings to your phone

Turner prize winner Charlotte Prodger: ‘I wouldn’t be in this room without public funding.’ Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Turner Prize 2018: Charlotte Prodger wins for films shot on iPhone

December 5, 2018

Glasgow-based artist’s film ‘Bridgit’ praised by judges as ‘unexpectedly expansive’

Richard Mosse, Heliniko Olympic Arena, 2016

Prix Pictet: Richard Mosse’s prize-winning work comes home

Aidan Dunne
December 4, 2018

Irish artist’s work contrasts with that of others in the Gallery of Photography

Canaletto and Venice: An extraordinary painter of an extraordinary city. Images courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland and the Royal Collection Trust

Water works: Canaletto’s Venice at the National Gallery of Ireland

Aidan Dunne
December 1, 2018

Dazzling paintings, drawings and prints by the greatest painter of the Italian city

Vox Hybrida 1 by Alice Maher

Art in Focus: Alice Maher – Vox Hybrida I (2018)

Aidan Dunne
December 1, 2018

Inspired by a medieval carving of a mermaid, Tipperary artist’s woodblock prints and bronzes aim to redefine representations of women

Ham Sandwich by Geraldine O’Neill, Courtesy Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

Hungry for art: food has always been a tasty subject for artists

Gemma Tipton
November 27, 2018

Feast and famine: food grows, gives life, rots – no wonder artists see its power to reveal life’s truths

Laura Fitzgerald, Brian Rock, 2018, video research still from video ‘Portrait of a Stone’. Image courtesy of the artist.

High anxiety and the fine art of falling apart

Aidan Dunne
November 27, 2018

The RHA’s annual Futures show finds emerging artists facing uncertain times

Barbara Knezevic, Tools for wellbeing, ‘Scapes: Rose Quartz’, 2018. Installation detail

Super-saturated pink palettes and giddy allegorical fantasies

Aidan Dunne
November 24, 2018

This week’s visual art highlights

Liam Gillick, “Liability Channelled”, (detail), powder-coated aluminium, 32 x 90 x 8cm. Image courtesy the artist and Kerlin Gallery

Art in Focus – Liability Channelled (detail), 2018, by Liam Gillick

Aidan Dunne
November 24, 2018

In his multifarious work the artist considers his own role in modes of production: industrial, artistic, intellectual

Maser: “I’m looking at other artists I admire and thinking I’m just a pebble in the stream. I’m very mindful of ego getting in the way and slowing things down.” Photograph: Joshua Mulholland

Maser: ‘I had a bit of a rocky year. Mentally, I just felt drained’

Una Mullally
November 24, 2018

Approaching burnout made Al Hester return to Dublin and rethink his artistic vision

Controversial: Damien Hirst’s Miraculous Journey sculptures in Qatar. Photograph: AFP/Getty

Damien Hirst’s giant uterus? It should shock us out of ignorance

Hannah Clugston
November 21, 2018

The artist’s controversial Qatar sculptures are a rare celebration of women’s bodies

The complex is a model of light-touch environmental design, providing a huge expanse of shade … Children Village by Brazilian designer Rosenbaum and architects Aleph Zero. Photograph: Leonardo Finotti/Rosenbaum Arquitetura 2017

Brazilian school made out of wood voted world’s best building

November 21, 2018

Royal Institute of British Architects 2018 prize goes to the timber and mud-brick Children Village, which doesn’t need air-con even in 45 degree heat

A matter of taste: prawn-head smoothies in a Domestic Godless installation

A matter of taste: when art and food collide

Gemma Tipton
November 21, 2018

Food is central to our lives, so how do artists engage with its symbolism and meaning?

Pour Hosseini’s protagonist, a wary, restless hybrid creature wearing a bird of prey face mask and the tattered remnants of a gown

A mythical, dreamy view of the Blasket Islands

Aidan Dunne
November 20, 2018

Iranian artist Atoosa Pour Hosseini reimagines the Co Kerry islands in the lyrical ‘Kinetics in Blue’

Bell X1 leave the stage in Dublin. Photograph: Ruth Medjber

Ruth Medjber: ‘I don’t need a therapist, because I have a camera’

Tony Clayton-Lea
November 17, 2018

The Irish photographer on capturing some of the world’s best bands

Father and son: part of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s painting The Swing, and on the set of the Jean Renoir film A Day in the Country. Original photographs courtesy Musée d’Orsay and Centre Pompidou

Lasting impression: Matching Renoir’s films with his father’s masterpieces

Lara Marlowe
November 17, 2018

Freudians would have a field day with Jean’s allusions to Pierre-Auguste’s paintings

On of the phpotographs that for part of My Magnetic North, by Gary Coyle

Art in Focus: My Magnetic North, Gary Coyle

Aidan Dunne
November 17, 2018

The latest instalment in his reflections on identity, place, death, memory – and demons within and without

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