CULTURE NIGHT

Various cities and venues, Fri www.culturenight.ie

Tonight’s Culture Night, which this year encompasses 11 cities and towns across the country (including Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford), involves the participation of numerous visual arts venues of all sorts. In Dublin, they make up a significant proportion of the 120 or so cultural venues taking part. Participants range from such mainstream institutions as the National Gallery of Ireland with its show of prints by Edvard Munch, the RHA Gallagher Gallery with its Futures and other shows, the Chester Beatty Library with its fascinating display of Mani manuscripts, to such independent outfits as the Cross Gallery, Monster Truck Gallery and the Bad Art Gallery in the mini-cultural quarter of lower Francis Street.

Several commercial galleries on the main drag are opening their doors, and people may be tempted to venture further afield – to the Lab, for example, Dublin

City Council’s gallery on the corner of Foley St, just off Talbot St, or the Science Gallery on Pearse Street, a terrific place, or, further

along, the Stone Gallery on Pearse Street. There’s also Mother’s Tankstation on Usher’s Island, plus such newcomers as the NCAD Gallery at 100 Thomas St and the relocated Kevin Kavanagh on Chancery Lane off Golden Lane. The choice is limitless, the range and quality amazing.

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Watercolour Society of Ireland 155th Exhibition, Concourse Arts Centre, Marine Rd, Dún Laoghaire