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A showcase of pencil and charcoal drawings, and a visual diarist

Aidan Dunne
June 18, 2019

Aidan Dunne: New exhibition raises question – can drawing survive in a digital age?

“The third week in June is when we now go to the island; the longest days and shortest nights make for optimum work time.” Michael Doherty, Mick O'Dea, Ann Marie Mullan and Una Sealy making portrait of island descendant Claire King at Inishlacken schoolhouse, 2018. Photograph: Nancy Keefe Rhodes

Bringing artists back to the island of Inishlacken

Rosie McGurran
June 15, 2019

A group gathers on the remote island off Roundstone to paint, sculpt and write

Carbon Sync), 200 X 170 X 50cms, Graphite over elm by Michael Quane.

Art in Focus – Carbon Sync by Michael Quane

Aidan Dunne
June 15, 2019

The swimmer is kept afloat by the environment humanity is in the process of destroying

Put Yourself in the Picture, The Ark portrait project in Dublin Castle

Portraits of children: This week’s visual arts highlights

Aidan Dunne
June 15, 2019

Art inspired by Ulysses, the Burren annual and the search for perfection

Artist Mary A Kelly was announced as the winner of the RCSI Art Award 2019 on Wednesday. Photograph: Maxwells

Mary A Kelly painting wins RCSI Art Award

June 12, 2019

Winning artist receives €5,000, RCSI silver medal and €10,000 commission

Laura Holmes’ Uprooted

Review: TU Dublin Photography Graduate Exhibition

Aidan Dunne
June 11, 2019

This year’s graduates are in the thick of it, and wouldn’t have it any other way

Y6.19 (2019) by Charles Tyrrell

Art in Focus: Y6.19 by Charles Tyrrell

Aidan Dunne
June 8, 2019

Tyrrell’s body of work is in a sense an autobiography, a record of day-by-day activity

Saype: one of the artist’s field murals, created for a French festival. Photograph: Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty

Meet the street-art sensation who sprays mountains

Angelique Chrisafis
June 6, 2019

Saype, whose giant biodegradable artworks are best seen by drone, is coming to Ireland

Sun & Sea (Marina), an installation in which opera singers spring to vocal life on an artificial beach, by Andrej Vasilenko

Librettos on the beach: Standouts at this year’s Venice Biennale

Gemma Tipton
June 6, 2019

Also known as the Art Olympics, this vast exhibition features works from 89 countries

LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney by Ruvan Wijesooriya

LCD Soundsystem caught on camera: ‘You really get to see the ravages of time and hard living’

Seamas O'Reilly
June 5, 2019

Photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya has documented the band’s career and touring adventures for more than a decade

The group exhibition brings together four individual artistic practices that engage with space, interiors and sites using distinct voices and methodologies. Photograph: Kasia Kaminska

Staring Forms review: An elegant consideration of the spaces around us

Aidan Dunne
June 4, 2019

TS Eliot’s Waste Land manuscript becomes a starting point for Miranda Blennerhassett, Aleana Egan, Andreas Kindler von Knoblock and Tanad Williams

Natalia Black, Northern Lights (2019), Acrylic on Board (detail), from Musica Universales at Green on Red Gallery

A sense of belonging: This week’s visual arts highlights

Aidan Dunne
June 1, 2019

Oikeiôsis means ‘coming into one’s own’, and these artists have certainly come into their own

Portrait of Violet Stockley with Rabbit (oil on canvas, c1900) by Walter Frederick Osborne. Private collection, courtesy of the Gorry Gallery

Art in Focus: Walter Frederick Osborne – Violet Stockley with Rabbit

Aidan Dunne
June 1, 2019

Osborne’s painting of his niece demonstrates his understated though impressive skills

Installation view of Vasily Klyukin: In Dante Veritas, presented by the State Russian Museum. Photograph courtesy of the artist

Could virtual reality be the future of art exhibitions?

Cian Maher
June 1, 2019

With Cappasity, all you need to ‘visit’ a museum is a VR headset and hardware

Richard Noble: His career reached its zenith in the 1970s. In advertising, his biggest client was Virginia Slims cigarettes. Photograph: Charlie Joe Doherty

‘Ireland has been my saviour, bringing me an extra 20 years of life’

Siobhan Long
May 29, 2019

Richard Noble’s photo exhibition ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ opens on May 31st

Jeanette Lowe’s Skip Sculpture: on display at Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Place, until August 10th.

A wealth of invention at the RHA's annual exhibition

Aidan Dunne
May 28, 2019

Academy’s 189th outing displays implicit awareness of issues such as housing

The Invisible Past. Photograph Nick Bradshaw

Five artists shortlisted for Royal College of Surgeons award

May 27, 2019

Artworks selected from more than 500 works at the RHA Annual Exhibition

Salvator Mundi: the painting sold for $450 million after being attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty

The $450m ‘lost Leonardo’ may be worth just $1.5m

Mark Brown
May 27, 2019

Louvre show ditches Salvator Mundi as art experts remain divided on portrait’s origins

Land Sequence Burren, Anne Madden, 1964. Collective View, Boyle.

A collection from two different perspectives

Aidan Dunne
May 25, 2019

Aidan Dunne: Arts Council and Civic Art Collection join forces for an exhibition in Boyle

The Past is a Foreign Country (2018) by Anita Groener, installed in The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon

Art in Focus: The Past is a Foreign Country by Anita Groener (2018)

Aidan Dunne
May 25, 2019

Groener focuses on the trauma inflicted by strife and migration in the recent past

Detail from Lamont Cranston (2018) by Larry Poons

Larry Poons and John Gibbons: An unusual pairing that works

Aidan Dunne
May 21, 2019

The master of American modern painting and sculptor have little in common, except spirit

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