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Birth. Sex. Death: Francis Bacon’s tragic vision of mankind
- Visual Art
- September 28, 2019, 05:00
A MAJOR EXHIBITION IN PARIS, SPANNING THE FINAL TWO DECADES OF THE ARTIST’S WORK, MAKES CLEAR THE VISCERAL AUTOBIOGRA(...)

‘I stopped caffeine a few years back as I came to realise it just didn’t agree with me’
- Food & Drink
- September 10, 2019, 06:01
8am Yesterday I got up and did an hour of yoga but my mornings change all the time. If lecturing in Leeds I could be up at 6am to get the train or if (...)

In search of Una Watters and her ‘lost’ paintings
- Visual Art
- July 30, 2019, 00:00
It was a wet windy Monday morning in December when we arrived at the Emerald Ballroom in Ballinasloe. We weren’t there for the dancing. We were on a q(...)

THE BLUNDEN TWINS HAVE TRAVELLED THE WORLD THROUGH ART AND CULTURE. NOW THEY ARE BACK FOR A FINAL SALE OF CONTENTS AT CASTLE BLUNDEN, IN CO KILKENN(...)

Dublin bridge renamed after stained-glass artist Harry Clarke
- Irish News
- April 27, 2019, 18:15
A bridge in Cabra, north Dublin has been named after one of the State’s greatest stained-glass artists. The Cabra Road Bridge in Dublin 7 has become T(...)

Modern greats at deVeres from Yeats to Joseph Walsh
- Fine Art & Antiques
- March 16, 2019, 00:00
The forthcoming Irish Art auction by deVeres at the Royal College of Physicians on Kildare Street on March 26th will offer almost 150 lots, spanning t(...)

Rembrandt: the first great ‘selfie’ artist
- Visual Art
- February 23, 2019, 05:00
The Rijksmuseum celebrates the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age, the ninth child of a prosperous miller, with its ‘All the Rembrandts’(...)

Rebel Irish artists of another age now centre stage at Whyte’s
- Fine Art & Antiques
- February 23, 2019, 00:00
The Whyte’s Irish and International Art auction on March 4th at the RDS will offer an array of works by Louis le Brocquy, from lithographs, silkscreen(...)

Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
- Abroad
- January 9, 2019, 10:00
“To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that’s the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby,(...)

State papers: Ireland has ‘moral claim’ to paintings, UK’s National Gallery admits
- Art & Design
- December 29, 2018, 02:48
Ireland has a “moral claim” to a priceless trove of impressionist paintings, including world-famous works by Renoir, Monet and Manet, its British keep(...)