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Van Gogh Dublin – An Immersive Journey ‘Van Gogh Dublin – An Immersive Journey’ is like having a very busy dream
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • May 19, 2022

Van Gogh’s expressive work is ideal for digital manipulation, but would he approve?

A 1964 Andy Warhol silk screen, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, is auctioned at Christie’s on Monday in New York. Photograph: Jeenah Moon/The New York Times Andy Warhol’s Marilyn sells for record $195 million at auction
  • May 10, 2022

Shot Sage Blue Marilyn depicts actor in vibrant block colours on blue background

Helena Gorey’s interest is closely attuned to  seasonal changes in the detailed fabric of the landscape around her. Photograph: Jenny Callanan Understory: A detailed exploration of rural landscape
  • Aidan Dunne
  • May 9, 2022

Helena Gorey’s paintings are individually beautiful but collectively superb

Town House Kingston University London. Photograph: Dennis Gilbert Grafton Architects win European prize for contemporary architecture
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • April 27, 2022

The Mies Van der Rohe is awarded to the firm led by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell

The US Navy also said it would name a ship after the former Supreme Court Justice. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s auction to include Picasso ceramics
  • Johnny Diaz
  • April 23, 2022

One of the famous ceramics had a bid of €15,000 on Wednesday

Andy Warhol prophesied that in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His art  has long endured. Photograph: Bettmann Andy Warhol: Profound artist, affectless hero, subversive icon
  • Jonathan Jones
  • April 14, 2022

Warhol is set to eclipse Picasso with a $200m sale of Marilyn Monroe portrait, breaking records

Xeo Chu started drawing lessons not long after he could walk. Photograph: Antoinette Haselhorts/Contemporary Art Keen Enthusiast The 14-year-old art prodigy: ‘I don’t know what prodigy means. And I don’t care’
  • Stuart Jeffries
  • April 10, 2022

The young Vietnamese artist Xeo Chu sells paintings for upwards of $150,000

Irish artist Niamh O’Malley uses glass, metal, wood, film and photography in her work. Photograph: Dragona Jurisc, courtesy of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, Niamh O’Malley finds inspiration in the everyday
  • Gemma Tipton
  • April 9, 2022

`You question the logic of what you’re doing: whether it’s work, or whether it’s just time being spent'

Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio, circa 1949.  Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images Alberto Giacometti: Sculptor of existential angst
  • Aidan Dunne
  • April 6, 2022

A new exhibition of the artist’s works is set to open at the National Gallery of Ireland

Ciara Phillips: ‘I’m not trying to reference anything that someone else has made. It’s the moment. It’s about not knowing’ ‘It’s almost like being in the thought space of my studio’
  • Gemma Tipton
  • March 31, 2022

Turner Prize-nominated artist Ciara Phillips comes to Sligo for her first major show in Ireland

Clare Langan’s River, on the screens at Wilton Park in Dublin, shows water shot in extreme close-up and extreme slow motion, which becomes hypnotic. A very big space for art at Wilton Park
  • Gemma Tipton
  • March 5, 2022

Europe’s largest dedicated art screen has popped up in Dublin. What’s going on?

The vandalism of Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures was first noticed by  visitors. Photograph: The Art Newspaper Russia ‘Bored’ gallery guard doodles eyes on avant-garde Russian painting
  • Sian Cain
  • February 10, 2022

Anna Leporskaya painting sent for restoration after guard doodled with a ballpoint pen

‘This was a very kinetic, very fast moving environment that’s just always teetering’. Photograph: Ross McDonnell Joyriders: Remembering an Ireland washed away by the Celtic Tiger
  • Patrick Freyne
  • February 5, 2022

Photograph Ross McDonnell on his latest book showcasing Ballymun in late noughties

‘I’m trying to imagine connections between things that we don’t normally think of as being connected,’ David Byrne said of his long-running project. Photograph: Mark Sommerfeld/The New York Times David Byrne: ‘I couldn't write songs during the depth of the pandemic’
  • Frank Rose
  • January 31, 2022

The Talking Heads frontman is opening an exhibition with sketches spanning 20 years

Everydays: The first 5000 Days by Beeple. Technically, the NFT isn’t the image but a unit of data on the blockchain that says you own the image. Photograph: Handout/Christie’s/AFP via Getty What the hell are NFTs and what do they mean for art?
  • Patrick Freyne
  • January 29, 2022

Populist uprising or environmentally destructive fad – either way, there’s lots of cash in digital non-fungible tokens

The artist Francoise Gilot, former wife of Pablo Picasso, at her home in New York. Photograph: Landon Nordeman/New York Times The 100-year-old ‘it girl’: ‘Picasso took the cigarette and touched it to my right cheek’
  • Ruth La Ferla
  • January 20, 2022

Françoise Gilot, painter and girlfriend of Picasso, talks success, style and intimacy

Are we facing into a new era of compact and easier living or is it destined to flounder? Photograph: iStock Can the ‘15-minute city’ concept of urban living become a reality for Irish cities?
  • Kevin O'Sullivan
  • January 9, 2022

Are we facing into a new era of compact and easier living or is it destined to flounder?

A starling murmuration over Lough Ennell, in Co Westmeath. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho 2021 in pictures: Irish Times photographers select their images of the year
  • December 25, 2021

By Brenda Fitzsimons, Laura Hutton, Bryan O’Brien, Dara MacDónaill and Alan Betson

No self respecting Dubliner should be without Alen MacWeeney’s new collection ‘A secret of a life’: Alen MacWeeney’s evocative photographs of 1960s Dublin
  • Gemma Tipton
  • December 20, 2021

The celebrated photographer’s new book chronicles the city of 60 years ago

Michelle Duffy: (€250) A gift of art is the gift that keeps on giving
  • Arlene Harris
  • December 19, 2021

‘When we buy from local crafts people we keep our money in the community, where it gets put back into other local businesses’

In 1997 the Dún Laoghaire Baths closed and fell into disrepair, now its refurbishment nears completion Inside the new Dún Laoghaire Baths (spoiler: don’t expect baths)
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • December 17, 2021

For years the derelict amenity was a blight on the seafront, a lost opportunity for a public facility

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CLR James addressing a rally in Trafalgar Square in 1935. Photograph: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries: A scholarly and vibrant biography
Daniel Shand’s book is a witty, scabrous satire of fin de creation capitalism. Model Citizens by Daniel Shand: witty, scabrous satire
Louise O’Neill’s new novel is her best yet. Idol by Louise O’Neill: A thrilling, psychologically complex novel

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5 John Lydon: ‘I never asked to be the poster boy. I just stood up when it mattered.’ John Lydon on The Sex Pistols, or ‘those unpleasant f**ks I used to work with’

6 Beatrice Blyth, right, of the Liverpool Vigilance Association, a group of housewives organised to fight vice, greets new arrivals from Ireland in May 1958.  Ann Hughes (18), Noreen Byrne (18) Rose Maguire (19) and Irene Mullen (19) all from Dundalk, Co Louth,  were bound for London to train as nurses. Photograph:  Charlie Owens/Mirrorpix/Getty Images Diarmaid Ferriter: How the Irish became Britain’s oldest, loneliest ethnic group

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9 Catherine Clinch gives ‘a masterclass in screen acting’ in An Cailín Ciúin. Photograph: Colm Bairéad/Inscéal Making An Cailín Ciúin: ‘An Irish-language film going toe to toe with world cinema was special’

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