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The painting was originally attributed in the online catalogue to a 17th-century artist who was a notable follower of Caravaggio. Photograph: Handout

‘The owners’ faces turned pale. They were speechless’: How a €3m painting was discovered

April 26, 2021

A small oil painting that hung in a home in Spain for decades turned out to be a Caravaggio

Three Graces by Gabriel Hayes on Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin.

Ireland’s sculptures: Where are the women?

Paula Murphy
April 21, 2021

Women have as much right to be commemorated in public spaces as men

Frank Gehry at his architecture studio in Los Angeles. Photograph: Erik Carter/The New York Times

Frank Gehry: ‘I'm just free to build, now I don't have to worry about fees’

Robin Pogrebin
April 17, 2021

Renowned architect is focused on social justice projects but also has lighthearted pursuits

Salvator Mundi: the Louvre has certified it as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. But it kept those findings secret after a squabble with the painting’s owners. Photograph: Benjamin Norman/New York Times

The mystery of the Salvator Mundi: Where has Leonardo da Vinci’s €375m painting gone?

April 15, 2021

A clash of wills has kept the masterpiece hidden since it was sold for a record price in 2017

A motorbike drives past the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 April 2021. Cambodian authorities called on US media group Vice and Irish artist Matt Loughrey to withdraw an article featured altered images of Khmer Rouge victims. The article was later removed from the Vice website. EPA/KITH SEREY

The Khmer Rouge controversy: Why colourising old photos is always a falsification of history

Emily Mark-FitzGerald
April 14, 2021

Matt Loughrey has falsely doctored photos from 1970s Cambodia – but all colourisation does that

Charlie Whisker, photographed for an Irish Times interview in 2007. Photograph: Eric Luke

Charlie Whisker: ‘The coolest dad, a rockstar, with a different way of looking at the world’

Deirdre McQuillan
April 12, 2021

One of Ireland’s finest painters has died aged 71, having lived with Alzheimer’s since 2014

Mayo-based visual artist Tracy Sweeney has seen a huge increase in Irish customers. Photograph: Al Higgins

‘I’ve seen a massive increase in Irish customers’

Marie Kelly
April 6, 2021

Many Irish artists are reporting a rise in sales since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic

David Marriott with Russell, the horse he created from hotel lunch bags. Photograph: Instagram/David Marriott

Horsing around: Quarantining Australian creates paper pony out of hotel lunch bags

Elias Visontay
April 5, 2021

Art director David Marriott is making the most of his design skills – and lifting morale

Morna Valley villa designed for Iris and the late Claus Michel on Ibiza

John Meagher: Architect who could ‘invent the unimaginable’

Frank McDonald
April 3, 2021

John Meagher, who died this week, was one of Ireland’s most accomplished architects

Bassam Al-Sabah: Wandering, wandering with a sun on my back

Time and space: How awards can help unblock creativity

Gemma Tipton
April 1, 2021

Four award-winning artists talk about the many obstacles to creating their work

The pandemic, coupled with an increasingly chaotic news cycle, has us striving towards the ultimate #smoothbrain state – meaning there’s a global audience regularly seeking out the oddly satisfying. Photograph: iStock

Visual ASMR: The weird online world of hypnotic loops and satisfying sounds

March 31, 2021

A subreddit devoted to strangely soothing video clips has grown into a behemoth

Covid cartoons: 2020s’ Sisyphus, from Vecer, in Slovenia. Cartoonist: Ciril Horjak

‘Orgy at my place’: The world’s best Covid cartoons from the past year

March 13, 2021

Newspapers around the globe share their pandemic-themed cartoons and illustrations

Charles Hill, pictured circa 2007, was a Scotland Yard detective whose investigations, often undercover, led to the recovery of Munch’s masterpiece The Scream as well as stolen paintings by Vermeer and Titian. Photograph: Richard Ansett via New York Times

Detective who found Munch’s Scream and Irish Vermeer stolen by Martin Cahill dies at 73

Richard Sandomir
March 12, 2021

Charles Hill’s work led to recovery of masterpieces including Russborough raid painting

The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca. Photograph courtesy of Arte & Immagini via Getty Images

On the trail of a curious Italian painting

David Orr
March 11, 2021

For three years, I had looked at a reproduction of this masterpiece hanging in my apartment block in Rome

A computer-generated image of how the Waterfront South Central development (right) may look. Image: Visual Lab

Johnny Ronan replies to Frank McDonald: Tall buildings must be part of Dublin’s future

Johnny Ronan
March 6, 2021

Waterfront South Central is a solution – not ‘two fingers’ – to Dublin’s problems

Eoghan Nolan at home in Bray, Co Wicklow in 2011, when he featured in an Irish Times article on the merits and demerits of Kindles and hardcopy books. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

Eoghan Nolan, creator of the Glasnevin Cemetery ‘One Million Dubliners’ poster, has died

Conor Goodman
February 28, 2021

Eoghan Nolan was an advertising copywriter and a lynchpin of Dublin’s creative community

Fr Peter McVerry photographed with his dog Tiny near his home in Ballymun. Photograph: Alan Betson/ The Irish Times

Dublin’s suburbs are ‘buzzing, thriving’. Well, some of them are

Kitty Holland
February 27, 2021

New outdoor facilities have transformed Blackrock and Dalkey. No such luck for Ballymun

Spare Tyres. Painting: Mary Burke

Art and the essence of farming

Manchán Magan
February 27, 2021

Mary Burke’s exhibition At Home on the Farm avoids bucolic cliche to catch rural functionality

A computer-generated view of the proposed Waterfront South Central towers with the Capital Dock tower — currently Dublin’s tallest building — on the left. Photograph: Visual Labs

15:17 Frank McDonald: Johnny Ronan’s docklands towers give ‘two fingers’ to Dublin

Frank McDonald
February 27, 2021

Opinion: The development would stand head and shoulders above the city skyline

Hugh Lane Gallery director Dr Barbara Dawsonand the Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu looking at the Edouard Manet ‘Music in the Tuileries Gardens ‘ painting at the announcement of a new partnership agreed between the National Gallery, London and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times

Truce in century-long row between Ireland and UK over Hugh Lane’s paintings

Deirdre Falvey
February 26, 2021

New partnership around 39 works agreed between Dublin and London galleries

Damien Hirst: Temple (2008) installed in St Moritz. Photograph: Felix Friedmann/© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021

Damien Hirst: ‘I was a Catholic until I was 12. I loved the imagery – the blood’

Jonathan Jones
February 25, 2021

The artist has always rammed home the fragility of life. It makes his work perfect for a pandemic

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