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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

A glimpse of O’Connell’s exhibiton in England which can now be viewed virtually. Photograh: Steve Russell Studios

Do not touch: Eilis O’Connell at a distance online

Aidan Dunne
April 7, 2020

Irish sculptor’s work shows ‘feeling of great antiquity and novel modernity’

Andy Warhol: “His art was a really revolutionary statement . . . The New York art world before Warhol emerged was dominated by abstract expressionism.”

Andy Warhol: America focused into oblique angles by outsider eyes

Shilpa Ganatra
April 4, 2020

Tate retrospective casts light on aesthetic of faith , industry, fame and consumerism

Kari Kola’s Savage Beauty project for Galway 2020 turned Connemara mountains emerald and blue. Photograph: Christopher Lund

Can an online video or image capture an artwork in all its real-world glory?

Aidan Dunne
March 31, 2020

Visual art: Gallery closures highlight virtues and shortcomings of virtual viewing

Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns

Michael Kimmelman
March 30, 2020

The places people flocked to – plazas, beaches, tourist Meccas – all now lie empty

Cecil Beaton and Stephen Tennant

Young, glamorous socialites who indulged in every excess

Rose Mary Roche
March 28, 2020

A new exhibition in the UK features Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things of the 1920s

Pandemic portraits: Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss plus Molly O’Cathain’s restaging. Photographs: DeAgostini/Getty and Molly O’Cathain

Do these pictures look oddly familiar? How an Irish artist’s re-creations are going viral

Deirdre Falvey
March 26, 2020

Theatre designer Molly O’Cathain calls in her parents to help restage Klimt, Dalí and more

McGrath visited Salisbury, the site of the attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March 2018

Cleansweep: A magnum opus chronicling a contaminated landscape

Aidan Dunne
March 24, 2020

Aidan Dunne: Dara McGrath photographs 92 locations used in research and storage of chemical weapons

Detail from Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting by Artemisia Gentileschi

How a brilliant woman's 400-year-old paintings speak to us today

Gemma Tipton
March 21, 2020

The work of 17th century artist Artemisia Gentileschi is urgent, immediate and compelling

Gary Coyle, The Black Dog, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery

A terrifying snapshot of the way we live

Aidan Dunne
March 17, 2020

Aidan Dunne: Gary Coyle’s work presents dystopian visions from a resolutely Gothic imagination

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Shock and awe: The high passions of Baroque geniuses

Lara Marlowe
March 14, 2020

Ocean of emotion from Caravaggio, Bernini, Caravaggisti at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

Fanlight, Westland Row, Pearson Collection

Fragments of the destruction of Dublin snatched from a skip

Aidan Dunne
March 10, 2020

Aidan Dunne: Peter Pearson’s extraordinary collection captures the living city

Cathal McNaughton at his home in Waterfoot near Cushendall. “The Indian authorities said I was excluded for breaking the terms of my visa by travelling to restricted areas in Kashmir, but through government back channels we discovered it was actually because I was highlighting what was going on there.” Photograph: Charles McQuillan

The Irish photographer who won a Pulitzer, then quit ‘the best job in the world’

Fionola Meredith
March 7, 2020

Cathal McNaughton won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 – the only photojournalist in Ireland to do so

Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara: from smalltown Ireland to architecture stars

Frank McDonald
March 7, 2020

Grafton Architects founders and winners this week of the prestigious Pritzker Prize have come a long way, yet they remain as grounded as ever

The Park: reignites debate in an age where other people’s privacy is more exposed, exploited and taken for granted than ever before

Sex in the park: From lurking spectators to a surveilance state

Sean Sheehan
March 7, 2020

How Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki crossed lines between public and private

Quebec, by Richard Gorman. Photograph: Richard Gorman/Kerlin Gallery

Art in Focus: Richard Gorman – Quebec

Aidan Dunne
March 7, 2020

The Dublin-born painter is well known for his abstract arrangements of flat colour and forms

Paula Pohli, Exhibition for a Good Man

The best art exhibitions of the week

Aidan Dunne
March 7, 2020

Shows by Moss Gaynor, Paula Pohli, Orla de Brí, Anna Maye, Eva Mulchrone, Rosa Mäkelä

Pritzker Architecture Prize: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects. Photograph courtesy of Alice Clancy

Grafton Architects win Pritzker prize, architecture’s top honour

Frank McDonald
March 3, 2020

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara join Richard Rogers and IM Pei as laureates

Neil Carroll, Rupture. Courtesy of the artist

‘Built paintings’ firmly grounded in the tangibly real

Aidan Dunne
March 3, 2020

Aidan Dunne: Two RHA shows – Neil Carroll and Laura Fitzgerald

Jason: This is where I would have done a lot of drug use. A lot of selling, a lot of hanging around as a young fella as well. A lot of lads have horses and a lot of lads would be smoking weed, a lot of older lads would be drinking there and stuff like that. So, I was attracted to this place. You can go into the house; it was only boarded up the last two or three years.

‘Hello, I hear there’s someone in the house acting the b*ll*cks’

Patrick Freyne
February 29, 2020

An exhibition of photos of ordinary items gives sharp insights into addiction in families

Bloodline by Andrei Molodkin

Art in focus: Bloodline by Andrei Molodkin

Gemma Tipton
February 29, 2020

Molodkin is best known for his deliberately highly provocative blood works

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