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Gemma Tipton
September 22, 2017

From wellness to weirdness and family-friendly fun, we’ve got you covered

Bassam al Sabah, TP Tendril, at Eight Gallery

Got the blues? Plunge right in to this week’s art highlights

Gemma Tipton
September 22, 2017

Works by Vera Klute, Janet Mullarney, Bassam Al-Sabah and Nigel Rolfe are on show

Paul Henry, Dawn, Killary Harbour, 1921, Courtesy Ulster Museum

Jack B Yeats v Paul Henry: two visions of Ireland

Gemma Tipton
September 19, 2017

Visionaries or mythologisers? These two titans of Jack B Yeats and Paul Henry describe the conflict at the heart of Ireland

Our Limerick crime comic: ‘I wanted to do something Irish’

Patrick Freyne
September 19, 2017

The graphic novel Savage Town ‘treats Limerick the way The Wire treats Baltimore’

Sonia Shiel, Still Life With Plans, at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Gothic follies and ghostly films – this week’s art highlights

Gemma Tipton
September 15, 2017

There’s some seriously strong painting on show, along with a few very surreal ideas

That’s right, it’s a propeller for added speed by JP Donleavy (2017)

JP Donleavy, the artist: mad planets and strange fish

Gemma Tipton
September 14, 2017

Painting was his first love, and the author allegedly wrote The Ginger Man in a pique after his work received a lukewarm reception

Arriving into View: all of the teenage artists have lived in direct-provision centres. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

People say ‘Don’t you have your own country?’ We reply ‘Mind your own goddamn business’

Colette Sheridan
September 14, 2017

The Glucksman gallery is working with teens who lived in direct provision to make a mural - and they are alive to the politics of the form and the work

Kari Cahill and Hazel McCague are behind Tombolo, a month-long residency for eight artists on Brow Head. Photograph: Ashley Beer

Land art: making art on the scale of a landscape

Gemma Tipton
September 13, 2017

Unlike the monumentalism of some land art, a show on the Mizen peninsula scales things down so people can look more closely at the world around them

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Freedom of Movement, film still, at the MART Gallery

Remembering when Abebe Bikila took a blistering run at Fascism

Gemma Tipton
September 12, 2017

Visual Art: In 1960, Bikila won Olympic gold, while running barefoot through a Fascist showcase in Rome. Mart's latest show recalls the deed and its impact

Perishable Picnic by Deirdre O’Mahony. Photograph: Brian Cregan

Fringe benefits and hard-as-nails creatures: this week’s art highlights

Gemma Tipton
September 6, 2017

From fruity picnics to provocative pigeons. Art goes over to the wild side this week

Artist Brian O’Doherty: ‘Now that I’ve got less permanent, I would like to do some permanent installations.’ Photograph: George Tatge

Brian O’Doherty: ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’

Gemma Tipton
September 6, 2017

The artist, doctor and Booker-shortlisted author is as busy as ever in his 90th year, with projects in Ireland, Italy and his adopted New York

Caroline McCarthy, ‘Mansize’ at Butler Gallery

Fun show offers hope for the art world

Gemma Tipton
September 5, 2017

Weekly art review: Chain reactions in Kilkenny and some tantalising ‘alternative facts’ in Cork

Lapdog and Tempest by Bradley Wood

Eccentric portraits set in luscious New York interiors win Moth Art Prize

September 1, 2017

Canadian artist Bradley Wood wins €1,000 and fortnight at The Moth Retreat

Detail still from Promisings 2013 by Elaine Reynolds at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon

The best arts shows to see this week

Gemma Tipton
September 1, 2017

If you think contemporary art is no laughing matter, a trip to Project might change your mind

Eilís O’Connell’s, ‘Capsule for Destinies Unknown’, 2017. Photograph: Steve Russell Studios, courtesy Gallery Pangolin

‘In England they ask: What is it’ In Ireland they ask: What does it mean?’

Gemma Tipton
August 31, 2017

The work of Iriish artist Eilís O’Connell features in a major exhibition in England alongside artists Damien Hirst, Lynn Chadwick, Antony Gormley and Elisabeth Frink

Ciarán Murphy’s L-2 (2013) at the Hennessy Art Fund for Imma

An Imma show that's strong on skill but short on soul

Gemma Tipton
August 29, 2017

Imma’s Hennessy Art Fund collection is missing something else besides context

William Crozier’s work from ‘The Edge of the Landscape

William Crozier's glorious paintings sing of Cork and colour

Gemma Tipton
August 22, 2017

From land to sea, William Crozier in West Cork, and artists getting aquatic at the Glucksman Gallery

A gig in the Partisan Collective’s space. Photograph: Sandy Rushton

Does Manchester have the answer for shared arts centres?

Shilpa Ganatra
August 21, 2017

The Partisan Collective is a future-proofed space run by volunteers. Would it work here?

Diarmuid Delargy’s Great Whitepark Shark Study I at Ballina Arts Centre

Best art exhibitions this week

Gemma Tipton
August 18, 2017

Diarmuid Delargy photos, illustrators, Arctic art, images of past and dystopian otherness

Handmade dolls from Soften the Border by Rita Duffy

The best art shows to spend time with this week

Gemma Tipton
August 16, 2017

Chain reactions and knitting the Border, what's on in the arts this week

Caroline McCarthy, MANSIZE, at Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Photograph: Roland Paschhoff

Kilkenny Arts Festival: a compelling chain of events and emotions

Gemma Tipton
August 16, 2017

From Antarctica to Ukraine and Schubert to Brexit, a one-day exploration of the festival

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