The key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems facing artists

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

The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

Jesse Jones’s Venice Biennale exhibition proposes an alternative, feminist creation and foundation myth

The artist on her love of historical culture, Olwen Fouéré and her guilty TV pleasure

Destruction of Waterford’s R&H Hall building and 60 years of Irish and Japanese fashion

Hotel resort has spent €3m on capital projects over last few years

Artists have a rich history of activism, using their talents to take their messages out of the gallery and into the street

What’s not: Fair City’s Katy, fake nostalgia, 80s shoulder pads, faux fleece

A gender audit reveals a poor representation of women in some of our national cultural institutions

The present age of anxiety has triggered a new interest in the paranormal

Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power