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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

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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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