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The work in full. Photograph: Anne Hansteen/Vincent van Gogh

Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic

Mark Brown
January 21, 2020

Only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is ‘unmistakably’ his work

Ronan Smyth, Westwood Jazz No 27, Pastures

Illuminating perspective on rural life in contemporary Ireland

Aidan Dunne
January 21, 2020

Aidan Dunne: Pastures is a compact show of several quite outstanding exhibits

Ack Ro’, neon, Jaki Irvine, Kerlin Gallery

Art in Focus: Jaki Irvine – Ack Ro’

Aidan Dunne
January 18, 2020

Neon installation – one of 28 – based on Neil Diamond’s song Cracklin’ Rosie

Michael J O’Connor, Faces in the Clouds, Solstice

Upcoming exhibit echos the lonely journeys of fathers burying their unbaptised babies

Aidan Dunne
January 18, 2020

Other upcoming exhibits explore why it’s okay to be lazy and homogenization of rural Ireland

Sean Lynch, A Murmur, Repeated, 2018–19. Video still courtesy of Ronchini, London

Sean Lynch’s A Murmur, Repeated: Exploring Stonehenge as a cultural phenomenon

Aidan Dunne
January 14, 2020

Irish bardic protagonist finds himself occupying ultra commodified landscape of late capitalist England

Sharon Kelly, The Salt House, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Imagination, memory and childhood: This week’s visual arts highlights

Aidan Dunne
January 11, 2020

Works by Clifford Collie, Cara Farnan, Bernadette Burns and Sharon Kelly

Two Travellers, Jack B Yeats (1942). Courtesy of the Tate

Art in Focus: Jack B Yeats – Two Travellers

Aidan Dunne
January 11, 2020

The painting of two figures in a dramatic landscape shows the artist pushing boundaries

Sarah Browne: Report to an Academy (2016), HD video 28 minutes. Courtesy: the artist

Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes

Gemma Tipton
January 8, 2020

The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like

Installation view of Tragodía, an exhibition of work by Tai Shani ar Temple Bar Gallery. Photograph: Kasia Kaminska

Tai Shani’s Tragodía tells of life, death and intense emotional bonds

Aidan Dunne
January 7, 2020

Turner Prize-winner mixes virtual reality, sculptural installation and the spoken word

Maser at his studio on Charlemont Street in Dublin: 'I met so many homeless people while I worked on murals around the city'

Maser in Mountjoy: ‘The energy was insane. I was genuinely scared’

Elizabeth Birdthistle
January 4, 2020

The graffiti artist is building a reputation abroad but working to help Dublin's homeless and prison population keeps him grounded

An image from Is everyone ok? by Daphne Wright

Art in Focus: Daphne Wright - Is everyone ok?

Aidan Dunne
January 4, 2020

A video centred on a single character gives an insight into people and the codes we live within

Susan MacWilliam, Kathleen, The Yalta Game, Letterkenny

The week’s best art exhibitions: collaborations and celebrations

Aidan Dunne
January 4, 2020

Group shows including Donegal exhibition marking life of Derry writer Kathleen Coyle

Perriand loved beachcombing on the Normandy coast

How an Irish architect helped France rediscover one of its finest female designers

Deirdre McQuillan
December 28, 2019

Architect Charlotte Perriand is celebrated in major Paris exhibition

Beech Trees at Norbury Park, JMW Turner (1797) ©National Gallery of Ireland.

Art in Focus – Beech Trees at Norbury Park by JMW Turner (1775-1851)

Aidan Dunne
December 28, 2019

This beautifully observed watercolour is typical of the artist’s early work

Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin Castle

The week’s best exhibitions: From Glass Biennale to Tai Shani

Aidan Dunne
December 28, 2019

Plus: Contemporary American art in Belfast and the Dún Laoghaire Open Exhibition

Harry Clarke, I saw them fashion the syllables of my name, The Pit and the Pendulum (detail), c 1919 (Edited version). Crawford Art Gallery

Art in Focus: The Pit and the Pendulum – Harry Clarke

Aidan Dunne
December 21, 2019

‘Admirable and terrible’ illustration typical of work done by famed stained glass designer

Farmers saving the hay, near Burrishoole, Co Mayo, 1943. Photograph: Helen Hooker O’Malley

The week’s best art exhibitions: Winter shows and stocking fillers

Aidan Dunne
December 21, 2019

Helen Hooker O’Malley in Limerick, Taoiseach’s Residence Architecture Competition in Dublin

Bust to empty boom: What shaped our public spaces in the past decade

Gemma Tipton
December 21, 2019

The Decaste in Culture: The 'quarterisation' of our cities reached a ludicrous peak with derided Grafton Quarter

“Exhibition text... can open doors into ways of thinking about the artwork; it can talk about important historical facts or writings; it can lead you into a parallel way of thinking about something else or can be entirely descriptive of what you see.”

What a load of smetch: new words to describe art

Gemma Tipton
December 18, 2019

Text plays a tricky role in art – as descriptors or part of the exhibit

John Conway, The Making of a Place

A year in the Pallas yields rich harvest of visual arts treasures

Aidan Dunne
December 17, 2019

Visual Arts: Going inside the exhibition space, it’s a Tardis-like experience

The heads laid out in a grid are variations on a theme, and one is prompted to think “the same but different” of the varied individuals depicted

Art in Focus: Charles Harper – Randomised Heads

Aidan Dunne
December 14, 2019

Harper has no problem coaxing subtle nuances of tone and colour from acrylic, and its crispness suits his brisk, darting technique

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