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Francis Bacon in his early twenties photo by Francis Julian Gutmann, Courtesy MB Art Collection ‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’
  • Gemma Tipton
  • January 24, 2021

A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon

Katie Holten’s Irish Tree Alphabet Why I made a new Irish Tree Alphabet
  • Katie Holten
  • September 30, 2020

I wanted to create a living alphabet – something we could plant – to literally make words matter

Over the course of his 30-year career, Rankin has captured icons of the era. Rankin: U2’s second-favourite photographer on his brushes with fame
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • September 28, 2020

‘Bono is a gorgeous man, both physically and in personality,’ says the celebrity portraitist

One of  Jeanette Lowe’s pictures exploring   Dublin inner-city street scenes. Photograph: Jeanette Lowe Berlin exhibition offers a global audience a window into modern Irish life
  • Derek Scally
  • September 19, 2020

The work in Ireland in Frame provides lessons for a Republic in the grip of a pandemic

hillen2showcase Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
  • Donald Clarke
  • September 19, 2020

The artist on cameras, John Hinde postcards and Newry during the Troubles

John Gerrard’s Mirror Pavilion ‘Even in a pre-Covid world, Mirror Pavilion would have been spectacular’
  • Gemma Tipton
  • August 29, 2020

John Gerrard’s spectacular new work in Galway reflects worlds we cannot usually see

The Butler Gallery has relocated to Evans’ Home on John’s Quay, Kilkenny. Photograph: Brian Cregan Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home
  • Turtle Bunbury
  • August 22, 2020

New venue opens on the eastern banks of river Nore with exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein

Frank McDonald: What’s not to like about Dublin’s new Kevin St development? Quite a lot
  • Frank McDonald
  • August 15, 2020

Comment: Plans for the former DIT site are a commodified vision of the ‘New Dublin’

Gerry Dalton in his garden. Photograph: Jill Mead The battle to save an Irishman’s eclectic art collection in a London council flat
  • Finn McRedmond
  • August 8, 2020

Gerry Dalton, originally from Athlone, quietly built a fantastical world of figurines, models, statues and art

Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s This Beautiful Virtual Village premieres online via the Abbey Theatre on August 17th. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw Lisa Tierney-Keogh brings her succesful play to an online audience
  • Sara Keating
  • August 8, 2020

Adapting her play for Zoom was ‘probably the hardest thing I have ever done’

Sarah Browne: Report to an Academy (2016),  HD video 28 minutes. Courtesy: the artist Do we really need an exhibition of women’s art? Yes
  • Gemma Tipton
  • August 5, 2020

The Elliptical Affinities exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery gives us a peek at what a differently-centred world might look like

The Bloods: Recce Platoon Soldier - Night Vision, Private Oisin Roche, 2019 (left); Battalion Mascot and Handler, Irish Wolfhound Fionn, Private James Dooley, 2016 (centre); and Soldier, Camogie Player, Private Ciara Nevin, 2019 Shooting soldiers in a handball alley: Amelia Stein’s The Bloods
  • Gemma Tipton
  • August 5, 2020

Defence Forces personnel appear in all their guises in the photographer’s powerful portraits

Would these Irish ads persuade you to wear a face mask?
  • Bernice Harrison
  • July 26, 2020

‘Where is the creative advertising for face masks?’ we asked. The ad industry responded

Birdwatching can be as serene or as stressful as you make it. Bird boxes: the sky's the limit for observatory design
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • July 25, 2020

Birdwatching, or ‘birding’, has soared in popularity; architects are responding with new designs for observatories

The only surviving member of a tank crew, Eastern Germany, near the Seelow Heights, April 1945. Photograph: Valery Faminsky Berlin 1945: Valery Faminsky's extraordinary photos of survival and suffering
  • Sean Sheehan
  • July 22, 2020

For someone embedded in the Red Army, Valery Faminsky did not take sides when witnessing first hand the collapse of Nazi rule

Room with a view: How David Hockney created digital art for a lockdown
  • Gemma Tipton
  • July 18, 2020

A new book of works by David Hockney drawn on an iPad a decade ago resonates today

 Banksy’s latest work sprayed on the inside of a London Underground tube carriage with messages about the spread of coronavirus. Photograph: @banksy/PA Wire Banksy’s coronavirus-related artwork removed from London underground train
  • July 15, 2020

TfL says it would welcome Banksy to recreate his message ‘in a suitable location’

The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth), 1876, Tate London James Tissot: Painter who held a mirror up to France’s ruling class
  • Lara Marlowe
  • July 11, 2020

The artist's paintings delighted and scandalised in equal measure

Sonic arrangements in the infinite fill, by Candida Powell-Williams, a Void Offsites project for Void Gallery, 2020. Image courtesy of Tansy Cowley and Void Gallery Up on a pedestal: Repurposing plinths as public art space
  • Gemma Tipton
  • July 6, 2020

Derry’s Walker Plinth points enlightened way ahead after kicking over the statues

Milton Glaser in his studio in New York in 2012. Photograph: Robert Wright/New York Times Milton Glaser obituary: I Love NY mastermind who changed US visual culture
  • William Grimes
  • June 29, 2020

Designer was also a New York magazine founder and created a memorable Bob Dylan poster

The Eve of Stagnes (1924). Photograph: The Hugh Lane God is in the Detail: Harry Clarke’s stained glass
  • Ruth McKee
  • June 27, 2020

The research in Dark Beauty is scholarly and thorough with engaging intimacy

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