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Don McCullin, Protester, Cuban Missile Crisis, Whitehall, London (1963) Credit: Don McCullin/Tate

Don McCullin: Photographs you can’t look away from

Sean Sheehan
February 21, 2019

Great British photojournalist is celebrated in major Tate retrospective

Robert Armstrong, ‘Kiribat’

Robert Armstrong takes a swipe at explosive landscapes

Aidan Dunne
February 19, 2019

‘Squeegee Paintings’, the new exhibition by the former head of painting at NCAD, is all about what's left out

“Treating time specially is a human construct and we’re using the wrong language,” says Prof David Berman.

‘Time Tries All Things’: magical physics and the nature of chronology

Gemma Tipton
February 16, 2019

Grace Weir’s new film just might explain the nature of life, the universe and everything

Detail from Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully (see full work below). Collection of the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, copyright the artist

Art in Focus: Landline Gray (2015) by Sean Scully

Aidan Dunne
February 16, 2019

Sean Scully’s Landline paintings link minimalism to northern European romanticism

Valentine's Day: A gentle Dublin love story played out on a bus

Sarah Bowie
February 14, 2019

Sarah Bowie's comic strip about an elderly couple’s relationship is also a love letter to the city

View of eastern side of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus (715 CE). Photograph: Stephennie Mulder

Separating fact and fiction in Islamic art

Aidan Dunne
February 12, 2019

Stephennie Mulder aims to expand the usual ‘European story’ and outlook on art history

Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day (detail) by Fergus FitzGerald

The five best art exhibitions to visit this week

Aidan Dunne
February 9, 2019

Fergus FitzGerald, Martin Redmond, Robert Armstrong, Siobhan McDonald, Stephen McKenna

Points of view in Waiting for Godot: the Gate Theatre Production, (Colour photograph, 2002-2003) Gerard Byrne. Image courtesy of AIB Collection

Art in Focus: Gerard Byrne – Points of view in Waiting for Godot

Aidan Dunne
February 9, 2019

Byrne’s image of the Gate production reflects his interest in cultural representations

A spectator tosses crumbs for an Ivanka Trump lookalike to vacuum at Jennifer Rubell’s art exhibit ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ on Tuesday at Flashpoint Gallery in Washington. Photograph: Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP

Ivanka Trump criticises art exhibit of lookalike vacuuming breadcrumbs

February 6, 2019

Public encouraged to throw crumbs for ‘Ivanka’ to clean up at Washington museum

The Streets, Our Brushes, Marielle Mac Leman at the LAB Gallery. Photograph: Peter Varga

The Liberties: where the past and present collide

Aidan Dunne
February 5, 2019

Ingenious work by artist Marielle MacLeman delves one of the oldest areas of Dublin

A building commissioned by the city of Dessau and designed by the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius.

Bauhaus: design and ideas of utopia

Gemma Tipton
February 5, 2019

As Bauhaus school celebrates its centenary, a conference looks at its conceptual legacy

A Dublin commute: ‘Marmite fake tans, lovers rowing and kissing couples, feet on seats’

Sarah Bowie
February 4, 2019

Sketches of a daily commute, recording the vagaries of Dubliners’ behaviour

The portrait of Lady Emily FitzGerald was painted by Joshua Reynolds when she was 43.The painting originally hung in the dining room of Carton House, Co Kildare, and is now displayed in Castletown House, formerly home of another sister, Lady Louisa Conolly

Queen of Ireland Lady Emily FitzGerald returns to Ireland

Deirdre Falvey
February 2, 2019

Quite the life: grand houses, political networking, 22 children, two husbands. Now she’s back, to hang in Castletown House

Concrete jungle: the US embassy in Dublin, designed by John M Johansen and completed in 1964. Photograph: Paul Tierney/Dublin City Council

Ugly, dated Dublin: Learning to love our concrete jungle

Gemma Tipton
February 2, 2019

Ellen Rowley is rediscovering the beauty of some of the city’s once-disliked buildings

Människans Form, Nicholas Benedict Robinson

From Utopia to damnation: This week’s visual arts highlights

Aidan Dunne
February 2, 2019

Also: ‘Crossing Permissions’ by Sinéad O’Donnell; ‘Armed Men’ by Mick O’Dea

The skull sectioned, a pen and ink drawing with traces of black chalk by Leonardo da Vinci. Photograph: Royal Collection Trust

Art in Focus: Leonardo da Vinci – The skull sectioned

Aidan Dunne
February 2, 2019

Da Vinci is known for a handful of iconic works but drawing was utterly central to everything he did

Brian Eno: The long form has a place in contemporary culture. Image courtesy of the artist and Lumen, London

Brian Eno: ‘I’ve spent longer in Ireland than I have almost anywhere else’

Aidan Dunne
January 29, 2019

The ‘Renaissance man’ on his Irish connections and his ‘deliberately slow’ epic artwork 77 Million Paintings at the RHA in Dublin

Art in Focus: from Mark Francis’s White Light (Dual Dimension). Courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Art in Focus – Mark Francis: White Light (Dual Dimension)

Aidan Dunne
January 26, 2019

Mark Francis fixes his interest on the world beyond the limits of conventional vision

Brian John Spencer self-portrait, in the style of Sir John Lavery

The strange case of Sinn Féin and the cartoonist it tried to block

Fionola Meredith
January 24, 2019

Brian John Spencer wanted to create a large scale painting. Sinn Féin was having none of it

Detail from Leah Beggs, Should Have Gone With You, at the Solomon Gallery

Chance and the space between things

Aidan Dunne
January 22, 2019

Light, mist and wonder from Leah Beggs and a group of four artists explore creativity through chance in Some Concrete Possibilites

Portrait of Miss Muriel Swanzy, 1907. Private Collection, courtesy Mary Swanzy Estate

Mary Swanzy: From strait-laced girl to first Irish cubist

Aidan Dunne
January 19, 2019

The Dublin-born artist remains something of an enigma in both her life and her art

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