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El Greco: part of the 1575 version of Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple. Photograph: Minneapolis Institute of Art

El Greco: The last great Renaissance master

Lara Marlowe
October 19, 2019

The painter constantly reinvented his art – and the older he grew, the wilder it became

Amelia Stein, Portrait of Rosemarie and Seán Mulcahy at the Butler Gallery

Visual art round-up: The best exhibitions to see this week

Aidan Dunne
October 19, 2019

Xavier Theunis, Camille Souter, Jason Ellis and more

Eoin McHugh, Therapy Notebook 1, pp. 1-6, pigment ink on paper six pages, 15 x 20cm each, six pages 5.9 x 7.9in each

Art in Focus: Therapy Notebook 1, pp. 1-6 by Eoin McHugh

Aidan Dunne
October 19, 2019

Sketchbook drawings take spirit of simplified Toki Pona language and apply it to images

13BC, Corpse Cleaner, 2016/2019, digital projection, colour, sound, 18 minutes

Oblique projections from the nuclear age

Aidan Dunne
October 15, 2019

Research collective 13BC delve into the intricacies of the human fallout from nuclear warfare

Sleep of Reason, Diana Copperwhite (2019, oil on canvas, 170X229cm). Courtesy of the artist and Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

Art in Focus: Diane Copperwhite – Sleep of Reason

Aidan Dunne
October 12, 2019

The oil painting is a typical work of artist, if relatively dark in tone

Winter which was not there, Vajiko Chackiani

Hero raised from the sea: The best visual arts shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
October 12, 2019

Helen Robbins, Yanny Petters, Frieda Meaney and this year’s art graduates

Theo Dorgan and Cormac Breathnach. Photograph: Alan Betson

Loco por Lorca: An Irish celebration of the great Spanish poet

Paddy Woodworth
October 10, 2019

For Loco por Lorca, Theo Dorgan and Cormac Breatnach made a joyous tapestry of four cultures and four languages

A2 Architects at Close Encounter at the Glucksman Cork Cork. Photograph: Jed Niezgoda

Why are Irish world class architects not building in Ireland?

Gemma Tipton
October 9, 2019

Grafton Architects have just won the 2020 Royal Gold Medal, but are ineligible to tender for many major projects at home

Detail of winning photograph photograph by Enda Bowe (b.1975), Cybil McCaddy with Daughter Lulu, 2018, C-Type print, 127 x 101.6 cm. Photograph: Enda Bowe

Photographic study of mother and child wins Zurich Portrait Prize

Aidan Dunne
October 8, 2019

Enda Bowe wins €20,000 award as first young portrait prize also goes to a photograph

Sheila Rennick, Worst Pub, 2019, Hillsboro Fine Art

Meet the Fleabag school of contemporary Irish painting

Aidan Dunne
October 8, 2019

Amanda Doran, Sheila Rennick’s works at Hillsboro, Aileen Murphy in Temple Bar

A Dublin Port sign, located on East Wall Road.

Open House Dublin: Five things to see at the architecture festival

Alanna Gallagher
October 5, 2019

Your annual chance to nose around private homes and off-limits buildings, free of charge

Clodagh Emoe, Eternity by the Stars, Maynooth

Finding our place in the universe: The best visual arts shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
October 5, 2019

Clodagh Emoe looks the nature of existence; Paul Hallahan muses on perception and time

Madame Woof (2019)

Art in Focus: Madame Woof by Sheila Rennick

Aidan Dunne
October 5, 2019

Rennick uses caricaturish levels of distortion in the service of bitingly satirical humour

Architect Lorcan O’Herlihy: ‘Although I sound American, my soul is Irish.’ Photograph: Colin Lenton

The architect with an Irish soul reshaping US cities

Frank McDonald
October 5, 2019

Lorcan O’Herlihy on rebuilding Detroit, the Los Angeles housing crisis and designing with climate in mind

Gallery assistants pose as British artist Banksy’s work Devolved Parliament at a photo-call at Sotheby’s auction house in London on September 27th. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Banksy painting of chimps in Commons sells for over €10m

October 3, 2019

Devolved Parliament sets new record price for work by the British artist at auction

Yvonne Farrell and Shelly McNamara, of Grafton Architects,at their office in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Irish architects win RIBA gold medal, UK’s top award

Frank McDonald
October 2, 2019

Grafton Architects honoured for significant contribution to advancement of architecture

Worthy of honour: all of these women, from Thekla Beere (top left) to Lillian Bland (bottom right), are ideal candidates for Trinity College Dublin's Long Room bust

Trinity College’s new sculpture: 30 women to put on a pedestal

Deirdre Falvey
October 2, 2019

From Markievicz to Maeve Binchy, there’s no shortage of candidates to join its 40 men

Gross Domestic Product: Banksy’s new shop has opened in Croydon. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty

Banksy launches ‘impractical and offensive’ merchandise shop

Lanre Bakare
October 2, 2019

Artist opens Gross Domestic Product following dispute with greetings card company

Back o’Leap (2007) by Graham Crowley

Graham Crowley: Nifty shades of grey and wild colour

Aidan Dunne
October 1, 2019

In A Love of Many Things, Crowley electrifies rural Ireland

Francis Bacon in Paris in 1987. Photograph: Raphael Gaillarde/Gamma-Rapho via Getty

Birth. Sex. Death: Francis Bacon’s tragic vision of mankind

Lara Marlowe
September 28, 2019

The artist’s work is visceral yet beautiful, as a major new show in Paris makes clear

And Then the World Changed Colour, Breathing Yellow by Mariele Neudecker. Commissioned by Dulwich Picture Gallery. Photograph: Ben Jones.

Art in Focus: Mariele Neudecker - And Then the World Changed Colour, Breathing Yellow

Aidan Dunne
September 28, 2019

Beautiful vitrine sculptures explore how we try to represent and make sense of nature

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