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An example of a previous work done by Olivier Grossetete

Fancy breaking up a building replica made from 1.5 tonnes of cardboard?

Lorna Siggins
July 23, 2017

Artist Olivier Grossetete calls for public help to destroy his model of NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima

Genius idea: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will text you a relevant piece from its collection, such as Nam June Paik’s Bakelite robot, in response to a text message

Art by text message, and other brilliant ideas

Gemma Tipton
July 22, 2017

Text a word to SFMoma and the museum will reply with a work of art

Jack B Yeats, ‘From Portacloy to Rathlin O’Beirne’, at the Hunt Museum in Limerick

The best art shows to catch this weekend

Gemma Tipton
July 20, 2017

From Enda Walsh’s ‘Bathroom’ to Voyager’s deep space odyssey, there’s plenty to ponder

Ana Maria Pacheco’s Hairy Legs of the Queen of Sheba. Courtesy of the artist and Pratt Contemporary

‘I was really interested in hairy ladies. The deviance’

Gemma Tipton
July 19, 2017

Artist Niamh McGuinne on combing through the rich and strange history of hair

Mary Grehan: says the hospital’s Youth Advisory Council “want to make a hospital that doesn’t look like a hospital from the outside”

The rules of hospital art: ‘If you can’t clean it, you can’t have it’

Gemma Tipton
July 18, 2017

Mary Grehan is forming a plan to make the National Children’s Hospital feel less, well, hospital-like

Aideen Barry, still from Not to Be Known, at Crawford Cork

The best art exhibitions to catch this weekend

Gemma Tipton
July 14, 2017

Welcome to the Neighbourhood in Askeaton; the Galway International Arts Festival and more

Raven Eyed by Loosysmokes will take over a warehouse in this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival

Dublin Fringe Festival reveals its 2017 line-up

Laurence Mackin
July 12, 2017

Artistic director Kris Nelson unveils his final programme

The Punch cartoon that depicted the Young Ireland Party as a gorilla

Apes, psychos, alcos: How British cartoonists depict the Irish

Seamas O'Reilly
July 11, 2017

The DUP’s new prominence has turned the clock back on a strand of British cartooning

Friendly and Inclusive Spaces Awards: McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects won for Coláiste Ailigh secondary school, in Co Donegal

Irish architects scoop international medals for school and parish centre

Fiachradh McDermott
July 10, 2017

McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects wins for Coláiste Ailigh, Seán Harrington Architects for Malahide Parish Centre

Arts Council director Orlaith McBride: “We must find a different way to support older artists,” she says. “There are no plans to reduce Aosdána’s funding. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Arts Council announces overhaul of funding system

Laurence Mackin
July 7, 2017

New system will simplify procedures, promote new artists and improve feedback

Anne Madden, Lemon on Tree, from Life and Death in the Garden at the Taylor Galleries, Dublin

The best art exhibitions to catch this weekend

July 6, 2017

Wormwood at the Ellis King gallery is worth a shot; as are Anne Madden’s observations of life and death at Taylor Galleries

Emma and Anita Curry from East Wall admiring a tall ship painting by Dympna O Halloran. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Young and old display new artwork at Hugh Lane Gallery

Fiachradh McDermott
July 5, 2017

Aspiring artists aged 11 to almost 80-years-old take part in Dublin Port project

Cartoonist Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow. Photograph: J.P. Trostle

Satirising Donald Trump: ‘It’s a struggle just to keep up’

Patrick Freyne
July 4, 2017

Cartoonist Dan Perkins: It’s hard coming up with something crazier than what's actually going on

Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick at the launch of the exhibitions Weekend Plans and 93% Stardust in Imma, Dublin. Photograph: Ruth Medjber

Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick: extraordinary art, extraordinary friendship

Una Mullally
July 1, 2017

The avant garde chroniclers of outsider lives met in New York in the 1970s, and it was friends at first sight

Artist Miranda Blennerhassett receives the RCSI silver medal from Prof John Hyland. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Miranda Blennerhassett wins RCSI Art Award

Laurence Mackin
June 27, 2017

Blennerhassett won for an ingenious piece made with wallpaper on a gallery stairwell

Anne Maree Barry and Patricia Cronin

Groups of garments go local and global

Aidan Dunne
June 27, 2017

Patricia Cronin’s installation ‘Shrine for Girls’ and a new film, ‘Leisure with Dignity’, by Anne Maree Barry

Robert Del Naja, singer of British band Massive Attack, has not confirmed the recent allegations. Photograph: Sandro Cmpardo/EPA

Has Banksy’s true identity just been revealed?

Niamh Towey
June 23, 2017

UK DJ Goldie may have let slip identity of the elusive graffiti artist as member of Massive Attack

Buse Kanlikilic with her work. Photograph: Marc O’Sullivan

Fine art graduates fuse forces and flex their mussels

Aidan Dunne
June 20, 2017

It's a vintage year for master’s graduates in fine art, whose work has a contemporary edge

Alice O’Conner: monumental use of insulation material

The next generation of artists: the 2017 graduate shows

Aidan Dunne
June 13, 2017

A significant number of graduates show diverse, thoughtful bodies of work that show their knowledge of the history of art

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) Woman Writing a Letter with her Maid, c.1670-71 Oil on canvas, 72.2 x 59.7 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Vermeer ‘gives you ideas, but not the manual’

Lara Marlowe
June 13, 2017

Agreement with the Louvre and National Gallery in Washington will see 10 Vermeers will be unveiled in Dublin

At the National Gallery of Ireland: Lady Writing, by Jan Vermeer, from Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

Forget the romance: Vermeer was a modern artist

Aidan Dunne
June 10, 2017

It's high time the artist was rescued from the Hollywood treatment in the film Girl with a Pearl Earring

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