Brian O Doherty

Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’

The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011

Review: ‘Man At The Door (Number 54)’ and ‘Pilgrimage’ at Cork Midsummer Festival

The common theme at the Sunbeam Bingo Hall and Sirius Arts Centre performances was personal identity

Artist’s hidden murals emerge after 20 years

The Art of Being Here: Brian O’Doherty’s restored murals at Sirius in Cobh are a revelation

Prawn-head smoothies from The Domestic Godless: this week’s visual arts treats

Also: Brendan Early, The Fragmented Mind, Imma Collection and ‘Breadwinner’ drawings

Freedom of Roscommon conferred on artist Brian O’Doherty

‘Last thing I expected, God knows. Then the unexpected has been a great part of my life’

Matilda to Beckett: the best in this week’s theatre

Like its protagonist, Matilda the Musical is not afraid to be clever, while Beckett’s words are put to music in Gare Saint Lazare’s Here All Night at the Abbey and beyond

Artist Brian O’Doherty to receive Freedom of Roscommon

Ballaghaderren-born Booker-shortlisted author best known at home as Patrick Ireland

How a magazine became a piece of experimental art

Art in Focus: ‘Aspen 5+6’ is an exhibition in a cardboard container rather than a gallery

Why are artists intoxicated with Samuel Beckett?

Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

Calls for Freedom of Roscommon for artist Brian O’Doherty (89)

Renowned international artist has said ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’

Remembering when Abebe Bikila took a blistering run at Fascism

Visual Art: In 1960, Bikila won Olympic gold, while running barefoot through a Fascist showcase in Rome. Mart's latest show recalls the deed and its impact

Brian O’Doherty: ‘Ireland does not appreciate its foreign achievers’

The artist, doctor and Booker-shortlisted author is as busy as ever in his 90th year, with projects in Ireland, Italy and his adopted New York

The strange and intangible attraction of colour

Two abstract exhibitions explore how differently humans perceive colour

Leading works of art popping up in Sligo schools

Model arts centre outreach scheme takes paintings out of gallery to inspire children

Ireland’s most magnificently controversial art exhibitions

ROSC events were extraordinarily ambitious but to reprise them would be a mistake

Pieces of Me: David O’Donoghue, fine art printer

An industrial dishwasher, a vintage car and a “soggy-bottom” chair