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Stephen Loughman: “You look at a facade and you have no idea what’s going on inside, the lives people are leading, what they are thinking.”

‘Proven Answers’: How sci-fi and horror films feed into still-image art

Aidan Dunne
July 21, 2018

Stephen Loughman’s paintings frame modern anxiety, often through cinema’s prism

Cillian Murphy in ‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’

Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’

Gemma Tipton
July 21, 2018

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

The Valiant Adventures of Tawara Toda: part of the scrolls on view at the Chester Beatty Library until January 2019

Art in Focus: The Tale of Tawara Toda – Japanese story painters

Aidan Dunne
July 21, 2018

History meets fantasy in 17th-century scrolls at the Chester Beatty Library, in Dublin

RIBA Sterling Prize shortlist: The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford, designed by Irish architedt Niall McLaughlin. Photograph: Nick Kane

Irish architect nominated for Sterling Prize for Oxford building

Anna Joyce
July 20, 2018

Niall McLaughlin: ‘Modern buildings can take their place in older stark settings’

Fiona Tan, Vox Populi: London, 2012, 267 individually framed colour photographs, 210cm x 700cm. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL)

Former woollen mill’s works weave a singular spell

Aidan Dunne
July 17, 2018

Visual Art: An exhibition from the De Pont museum in Amsterdam comes to Dublin

‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), mixed media, Catherine Owens (Oliver Sears Gallery).

Art in Focus: ‘Light Painting, Orange’ (detail), by Catherine Owens

Aidan Dunne
July 14, 2018

Fusing traditional media and recent technology, Owens reflects on constancy in a changing world

Exposure: Maureen O’Neill, Custom House Studios Gallery

Five of the best art shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
July 14, 2018

Works from Dan Graham, Maureen O’ Neill, Maureen O’ Connor and Kelvin Mann

Kathlyn Owens, Maser, and Alex Aleande from Clay Youth Project, Crumlin. Photograph: Naoise Culhane

Maser video: Watch his latest artwork take shape in Crumlin

Anna Joyce
July 11, 2018

Watch the creation of the artist’s latest work – a collaborative mural at a Crumlin youth project

David Mach working on his installation Rock’n’Roll. Photograph: Andrew Downes

David Mach: ‘I feel that I need to fight something’

Gemma Tipton
July 11, 2018

The Scot rails against aspects of modern life as he brings his big, pugilistic art to Galway

'A Visibility Matrix' is 'a synchronised, multi-channel video installation' but its point is not to, say, showcase an expansive range of video work, and it’s not a greatest hits collection. Photography by Louis Haugh

Video thrills on the electronic super highways

Aidan Dunne
July 10, 2018

In 'A Visibility Matrix', Sven Anderson and Gerard Byrne search for a path out of the online video jungle

Travelling in a Strange Land: I force myself to look at it, try to think of some prayer to say but no words come. Photograph by Sonya Whitefield

David Park: How my latest novel became a photography exhibition

David Park
July 7, 2018

Sonya Whitefield’s responses to my writing see the mystery at the core of our existence

Sir Sidney Nolan visiting the Burren. Photograph: The Burren College of Art

Five art shows to see this week

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

Sir Sidney Nolan paitings related to his family links with Ireland on show in the Burren

From: At Mirrored River, Enda Bowe

Art in Focus: Enda Bowe – At Mirrored River

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

Lives and dreams in a midlands town captured in beautiful photographs

Roderic O’Conor: Self-Portrait, from 1903. Photograph © National Gallery of Ireland

Roderic O’Conor: Ireland’s great forgotten painter

Aidan Dunne
July 7, 2018

A spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland celebrates the post-impressionist

Lady Louisa Conolly by Anne Valérie Dupond (2018)

On a Pedestal: contemporary takes on the classical portrait bust

Aidan Dunne
July 3, 2018

A thoughtful exhibition at the Long Gallery in Castletown House, Kildare

Light Painting Orange, Catherine Owens, Oliver Sears Gallery

Five must-see visual art exhibitions this week

Aidan Dunne
June 30, 2018

Face to Face, Life at the Edges, View from Donegal, School of Looking and 6am

Marlene Dumas, Self-portrait at Noon, 2008, oil on canvas, 90 x 100 x 3 cm. Collection De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL). Photograph: Peter Cox

Art in Focus: Self-portrait at Noon, Marlene Dumas

Aidan Dunne
June 30, 2018

A powerful contemporary painter of the human condition

Elon Musk tweeted a photo of one of his original mugs featuring his cartoon drawing of a unicorn farting electricity. Photograph: Elon Musk/Twitter

Tesla CEO Elon Musk drawn into farting unicorn mug dispute

June 28, 2018

Tom Edwards was thrilled to hear CEO was a fan, until he saw Tesla using his work without permission

Ursula Burke picks up on the updating theme with Balaclava Bust (2014)

Art of the head: the portrait bust is having a moment

Gemma Tipton
June 27, 2018

A new exhibition at Castletown House proves the portrait bust is very much back in vogue

Tremble Tremble, Jesse Jones, installation view, Project Arts Centre

The persistence of the feminine, embodied in the witch, demonised, and hounded

Aidan Dunne
June 26, 2018

Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth

’Moonlight’ by Rockwell Kent. Courtesy of the Plattsburgh State Art Museum

‘Before Cong got John Wayne, Glencolmcille got Rockwell Kent’

Fionola Meredith
June 23, 2018

New BBC documentary explores the US painter who first visited Donegal in the 1920s

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