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Van Gogh Dublin – An Immersive Journey

‘Van Gogh Dublin – An Immersive Journey’ is like having a very busy dream

Deirdre Falvey
May 19, 2022

Van Gogh’s expressive work is ideal for digital manipulation, but would he approve?

A 1964 Andy Warhol silk screen, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, is auctioned at Christie’s on Monday in New York. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/The New York Times

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn sells for record $195 million at auction

May 10, 2022

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn depicts actor in vibrant block colours on blue background

Helena Gorey’s interest is closely attuned to seasonal changes in the detailed fabric of the landscape around her. Photograph: Jenny Callanan

Understory: A detailed exploration of rural landscape

Aidan Dunne
May 9, 2022

Helena Gorey’s paintings are individually beautiful but collectively superb

Town House Kingston University London. Photograph: Dennis Gilbert

Grafton Architects win European prize for contemporary architecture

Deirdre Falvey
April 27, 2022

The Mies Van der Rohe is awarded to the firm led by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell

The US Navy also said it would name a ship after the former Supreme Court Justice. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s auction to include Picasso ceramics

Johnny Diaz
April 23, 2022

One of the famous ceramics had a bid of €15,000 on Wednesday

Andy Warhol prophesied that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His art has long endured. Photograph: Bettmann

Andy Warhol: Profound artist, affectless hero, subversive icon

Jonathan Jones
April 14, 2022

Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records

Xeo Chu started drawing lessons not long after he could walk. Photograph: Antoinette Haselhorts/Contemporary Art Keen Enthusiast

The 14-year-old art prodigy: ‘I don’t know what prodigy means. And I don’t care’

Stuart Jeffries
April 10, 2022

The young Vietnamese artist Xeo Chu sells paintings for upwards of $150,000

Irish artist Niamh O’Malley uses glass, metal, wood, film and photography in her work. Photograph: Dragona Jurisc, courtesy of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

Representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, Niamh O’Malley finds inspiration in the everyday

Gemma Tipton
April 9, 2022

`You question the logic of what you’re doing: whether it’s work, or whether it’s just time being spent'

Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio, circa 1949. Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images

Alberto Giacometti: Sculptor of existential angst

Aidan Dunne
April 6, 2022

A new exhibition of the artist’s works is set to open at the National Gallery of Ireland

Ciara Phillips: ‘I’m not trying to reference anything that someone else has made. It’s the moment. It’s about not knowing’

‘It’s almost like being in the thought space of my studio’

Gemma Tipton
March 31, 2022

Turner Prize-nominated artist Ciara Phillips comes to Sligo for her first major show in Ireland

Clare Langan’s River, on the screens at Wilton Park in Dublin, shows water shot in extreme close-up and extreme slow motion, which becomes hypnotic.

A very big space for art at Wilton Park

Gemma Tipton
March 5, 2022

Europe’s largest dedicated art screen has popped up in Dublin. What’s going on?

The vandalism of Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures was first noticed by visitors. Photograph: The Art Newspaper Russia

‘Bored’ gallery guard doodles eyes on avant-garde Russian painting

Sian Cain
February 10, 2022

Anna Leporskaya painting sent for restoration after guard doodled with a ballpoint pen

‘This was a very kinetic, very fast moving environment that’s just always teetering’. Photograph: Ross McDonnell

Joyriders: Remembering an Ireland washed away by the Celtic Tiger

Patrick Freyne
February 5, 2022

Photograph Ross McDonnell on his latest book showcasing Ballymun in late noughties

‘I’m trying to imagine connections between things that we don’t normally think of as being connected,’ David Byrne said of his long-running project. Photograph: Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times

David Byrne: ‘I couldn't write songs during the depth of the pandemic’

Frank Rose
January 31, 2022

The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years

Everydays: The first 5000 Days by Beeple. Technically, the NFT isn’t the image but a unit of data on the blockchain that says you own the image. Photograph: Handout/Christie’s/AFP via Getty

What the hell are NFTs and what do they mean for art?

Patrick Freyne
January 29, 2022

Populist uprising or environmentally destructive fad – either way, there’s lots of cash in digital non-fungible tokens

The artist Francoise Gilot, former wife of Pablo Picasso, at her home in New York. Photograph: Landon Nordeman/New York Times

The 100-year-old ‘it girl’: ‘Picasso took the cigarette and touched it to my right cheek’

Ruth La Ferla
January 20, 2022

Françoise Gilot, painter and girlfriend of Picasso, talks success, style and intimacy

Are we facing into a new era of compact and easier living or is it destined to flounder? Photograph: iStock

Can the ‘15-minute city’ concept of urban living become a reality for Irish cities?

Kevin O'Sullivan
January 9, 2022

Are we facing into a new era of compact and easier living or is it destined to flounder?

A starling murmuration over Lough Ennell, in Co Westmeath. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho

2021 in pictures: Irish Times photographers select their images of the year

December 25, 2021

By Brenda Fitzsimons, Laura Hutton, Bryan O’Brien, Dara MacDónaill and Alan Betson

No self respecting Dubliner should be without Alen MacWeeney’s new collection

‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin

Gemma Tipton
December 20, 2021

The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago

Michelle Duffy: (€250)

A gift of art is the gift that keeps on giving

Arlene Harris
December 19, 2021

‘When we buy from local crafts people we keep our money in the community, where it gets put back into other local businesses’

In 1997 the Dún Laoghaire Baths closed and fell into disrepair, now its refurbishment nears completion

Inside the new Dún Laoghaire Baths (spoiler: don’t expect baths)

Deirdre Falvey
December 17, 2021

For years the derelict amenity was a blight on the seafront, a lost opportunity for a public facility

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