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The recent event ahead of Offset in the Twisted Pepper, Dublin

‘Speed-dating’ with the best creative businesswomen at Offset

Art & Design
Una Mullally
March 5, 2015, 13:01

A recent event gave newcomers a chance to learn from some of the smartest women in the local creative industries

The Closing of Mystical Anarchism by Clodagh Emoe. Photograph: Sean Breithaupt

Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds

Visual Art
Aidan Dunne
March 3, 2015, 10:00

A series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critique

Painting of Brendan Behan and Lucian Freud is part of Mark McFadden’s debut exhibition in Dublin, ‘Literary Greats’, at the Residence club on St Stephen’s Green

Mark McFadden’s ‘Literary Greats’ exhibition begins in Dublin

Art & Design
Conor Goodman
February 28, 2015, 14:16

Annie Atkins: “I was born in Wales, though my Mum’s Irish. Dad was a graphic designer and from the time I was little, I wanted to be one too.”

Design Matters: Film and TV

Art & Design
Gemma Tipton
February 28, 2015, 07:00

A guide to who’s who in the Irish design world

Cornelia Parker’s installation War Room in the Whitworth Gallery in the University of Manchester

The Whitworth: bigger is better for the ‘Tate of the north’

Art & Design
Aidan Dunne
February 24, 2015, 01:00

The expanded Manchester gallery is looking to make an explosive impact

Detail from Thicket by Anthony Lyttle

Anthony Lyttle's drawings hold vast reservoirs of feeling beneath the surface

Visual Art
Aidan Dunne
February 17, 2015, 10:00

His densely patterned works have an in-between quality that unsettles the eye but also keeps it interested

Loved up? Love Dublin

Art & Design
Alanna Gallagher
February 14, 2015, 11:04

The art project by Cliona Harmey displays the names of the most recent ships to arrive into and leave from Dublin Port

The shipping news: Dublin is reacquainted with its docks

Art & Design
Gemma Tipton
February 11, 2015, 01:00

Dublin port is a fascinating place, although it has become separated from the city and the people it serves. Artist Cliona Harmey’s new project aims to revive the connection

Francis Bacon self-portrait sells for almost €20m

Visual Art
Michael Parsons
February 10, 2015, 23:03

‘Two Studies for Self-Portrait’ sold in less than two minutes at Sotheby's in London

One of four adjoining, spacious lightboxes that form an extensive arena in My Mind’s I by Janet Mullarney

From Janet Mullarney’s fairy tale realm to Paul Seawright’s living nightmare

Visual Art
Aidan Dunne
February 10, 2015, 10:00

Mullarney sets memorable characters loose on stage; while Seawright shows us malevolent landscapes

‘Nafea Faa Ipoipo’ (When Will You Marry?) is said to have been sold to a museum in Qatar for €265 million. Photograph: EPA

Gauguin painting sets all-time record with €265m sale

Visual Art
February 7, 2015, 16:08

Work was painted in 1892 and is said to have sold to museum in Qatar

Lovely Water No 747 by Gary Coyle

The bright new gallery by the sea: welcome to Dún Laoghaire’s Municipal

Visual Art
Aidan Dunne
February 4, 2015, 14:41

The fine gallery is part of the flagship Lexicon library, a testament to civic generosity

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