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Helvetica Now: Monotype’s redesigned typeface offers character options such as a straight-legged capital R and a “single-storey” lowercase a, like the handwritten form of the character

Helvetica Now: Why the Marmite of fonts was redesigned

Lanre Bakare
April 25, 2019

The love-it-or-hate-it typeface has been updated to help it survive the internet age

This painting by Atsushi Kaga is among the works to go under the hammer at the Pallas Auction on May 2nd.

Upcoming art auctions all in a good cause

Gemma Tipton
April 24, 2019

Works by cutting edge contemporary artists will go under the hammer in coming weeks

Love rivals: Young Women in the Garden by Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard: The bright palette of a tortured soul

Lara Marlowe
April 23, 2019

Tate Modern’s a dazzling tribute identifies colour and memory as the two most salient features of the great French painter’s art

Sonia Shiel, Never Quieter. Photograph: Gillian Buckely

The authentic Sonia Shiel and Martin Mooney, 12 years later

Aidan Dunne
April 23, 2019

Works showcase Shiel’s easy facility, while Mooney embraces the challenge of plein air

President Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina, with Lord Mayor of Dublin Nial Ring and artist Vera Klute, having unveiled the Luke Kelly statue in Dublin 1, on January 30th, 2019. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

How one Luke Kelly statue for Dublin city became two

Gemma Tipton
April 20, 2019

The story of ‘two Lukes’ being unveiled on the same day in the capital is the subject of a new documentary

Art in Focus: Andrew Kearney – Mechanism

Aidan Dunne
April 20, 2019

Artist’s unsettling installations underline the implicit strangeness of everyday encounters with objects, places and materials

David Fox, The container, oil on canvas, Olivier Cornet Gallery

David Fox and Pete Smyth: The best art shows to see the week

Aidan Dunne
April 20, 2019

OK: Hannah Fitz creates a sculptural landscape inhabited by footballers

For people who don’t cycle regularly, the thought of a three-hour bike ride might seem daunting

Copenhagen by bike: forget the Little Mermaid and feast on the urban architecture

Bernice Harrison
April 20, 2019

From the new Noma to the city’s latest talking point, a waste centre with a ski slope

Sabina Higgins and artist Pauline Bewick with President Michael D Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin where Ms Bewick was presented with the 2019 Kerry Association in Dublin Arts Award. Photograph: Julien Behal

Artist Pauline Bewick presented with award at Áras an Uachtaráin

Colin Gleeson
April 18, 2019

Kerry Association in Dublin Arts Award designed to recognise excellence in the arts

Naoise Hennessy, a 16-year old student from Craanford, near Gorey, has been chosen overall winner of this year’s 65th Texaco Children’s Art Competition, taking first prize in the senior 16-18 years age category. Photograph: Mac Innes Photography

All-Ireland camogie player wins this year’s Texaco children’s art competition

Jack Power
April 16, 2019

Winning entry from Naoise Hennessy (16) “worthy of a place in any public gallery”

A woman cries as people look at Notre Dame engulfed in flames from the Paris’s Hotel de Ville esplanade on Monday. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

As Notre Dame burned, so too did a part of us

Jennifer O'Connell
April 16, 2019

Jennifer O’Connell: You don’t have to have lived in Paris to have had a visceral reaction to seeing Notre Dame gutted

A Bird Never Flew on One Wing by Harry Kernoff

Hidden artistic gems of Irish modernism

Aidan Dunne
April 16, 2019

New exhibition features rarely seen works by Ireland’s pioneering modernists

Dave West’s Post Office is part of the Diamonds and Rust exhibition at The Doorway Gallery in Dublin.

Diamonds and Rust and four more of the best exhibitions this week

Aidan Dunne
April 13, 2019

Derry gets a visit from the works of Dave West and Dublin sees Gabhann Dunne’s

Composition (circa 1922) by Mainie Jellett

Art in Focus: Composition (c 1922) by Mainie Jellett

Aidan Dunne
April 13, 2019

A superb early cubist work by a pioneer of modernism in Ireland

Stephen Lawlor, Red Dragon, SO Fine Art Editions.

Past, meet the present. Present meet the past

Aidan Dunne
April 9, 2019

Jonathan Hunter and Stephen Lawlor’s exhibitions play with our sense of time

Drawing from Poulaphouca No 3 by Sam Reveles

Art in Focus: Drawing from Poulaphouca No 3 by Sam Reveles

Aidan Dunne
April 6, 2019

The Texan has likened his accretive process to the growth of lichen or fungus

Close Encounters in Venice

The week’s best art shows: From an anxiety exhibition to Damien Hirst

Aidan Dunne
April 6, 2019

Plus: Venice Biennale works on iconic 20th-century buildings, and Ben Reilly

Dan Robbins, the artist behind paint-by-numbers kits, has died in Ohio aged 93. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images

Dan Robbins, inventor of paint-by-numbers, dies at 93

April 5, 2019

Artist created the phenomenon after being inspired by Leonardo da Vinci

I’m no art critic but there are a few problems with Kapoor’s work

Anish Kapoor’s Brexit art: ‘It looks like a transition year Photoshop project’

Patrick Freyne
April 3, 2019

The sculptor was asked to create a Brexit-themed artwork and this is it

Marcel Vidal, White Noise, 2018, RHA Futures

Golden Fleece Award banishes border between art and craft

Aidan Dunne
April 2, 2019

Two ceramicists and two visual artists announced as winners of annual prize

Night Crossing (oil on canvas) by Ian Wieczorek. Image courtesy of the artist

Art in Focus: Transgress by Ian Wieczorek

Aidan Dunne
March 30, 2019

Ian Wieczorek’s paintings address a world of mass surveillance and forced migration

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