Malachy Clerkin looks at some of the volumes taking up the sports sections this year

Feast and famine: food grows, gives life, rots – no wonder artists see its power to reveal life’s truths

Ian Gibson has lived in Spain for decades and is best known for his work on the poet Federico García Lorca

Sleep deprivation has been linked to a long list of health problems, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression and obesity

The Dubliner scours European cities to find vintage furniture for interiors back home

Paris Letter: After months of political wrangling, Michel Déon is finally to be buried at Montparnasse

The self-proclaimed executioner of the last taboos of the Western world on his Irish blood, not drinking – and finding religion

Pilar Abel claimed her mother had an affair with the Spanish surrealist artist in 1955

Embalmer says artist’s body ‘like wood’ after samples collected to settle paternity claim

Artist died in 1989 and is buried in his museum in the north-eastern town of Figueres

St John’s Eve was an occasion for major bonfires all over our part of the world in those days

I’m fairly minimalist. I like clean, sharp lines and neutral colours

Writer and art historian Francesco Spampinato explores collaborations between musician and artists in his new book Art Record Covers

The Illusionists, who are coming to Ireland, cast a spell over charmed journalists in Paris

Study of work by major artists could help in earlier diagnosis of degenerative illness

Novelist moved to Ireland in 1968 and his best-known works are partially or totally set here

Renowned surrealist artworks among hundreds of objects to be sold by Christie’s

Amid some of the most world’s popular holiday destinations can be found hidden cultural gems of art, museums, gardens and festival

Sheer, dizzying, heartbreaking brilliance: superfan Joseph O'Connor's selects his playlist

Paula Rowan’s latest collection of gloves was inspired by the colours of the sea, which sparkle through the unadorned windows of her Sandycove apartment

With war and conflict affecting some popular tourist haunts this summer, more people are returning to old reliables such as Spain. Conor Pope finds 10 of the more offbeat – and affordable – destinations

The powerful, disturbing work of the Dutch painter, who died 500 years ago, tells us a great deal about the anxieties of his time

Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated

US professor speaks about the artist’s interests as part of Maths Week

Events North and South demonstrate fun aspects of maths - as well as subject’s importance

Imma is showing a body of work by a contemporary of Frida Kahlo and Dali who has long been under-appreciated in a country that inspired much of her work: Ireland

An exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves diverge

For the first time since leaving Belfast in the snow, the temperatures are consistently in double figures