Jeff Koons
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Reimagining a different future for urban communities
- Culture
- December 16, 2020, 05:00
All too often, what prevents good things happening is people not knowing where to start. Lockdowns have shone a light on the resources, or lack of the(...)

Seán Hillen: ‘The oxygen of publicity is everything for an artist’
- Visual Art
- September 19, 2020, 05:00
The artist talks about his famous collages involving John Hinde postcards, growing up in Newry during the Troubles, and being the subject of new do(...)

Room with a view: How David Hockney created digital art for a lockdown
- Art & Design
- July 18, 2020, 05:00
There are many ways in which David Hockney is a prescient genius, but how could he have predicted lockdown? Hockney has been mainly famous for his por(...)

Found in America, an Irish president's painting makes a premium price at home
- Fine Art & Antiques
- April 18, 2020, 06:00
Morgan O’Driscoll ’s Irish and international art this week was a good litmus test for the online auction market in the current health crisis. The res(...)

Fine art flip: Irish discovery in US now valued at three times the price at home
- Fine Art & Antiques
- April 4, 2020, 06:00
A rare painting by Paul Henry, Celtic Cross in a West of Ireland Landscape (1929), featuring a large cross dominating his signature bulbous cloud land(...)

Rare post box on the block in garden sale
- Fine Art & Antiques
- May 25, 2019, 00:00
To truly appreciate ornamental garden architecture requires a backdrop other than the yard of an auction room to allow would-be buyers to see how piec(...)

From Damien Hirst to Marcel Duchamp, what makes artists tick?
- Culture
- November 13, 2018, 05:00
Are artists different? Some lines from Thomas Kinsella are stuck in my mind: “I wonder whether one expects/ Flowing tie or expert sex …/ Of poets any (...)

Busting out: art at Electric Picnic 2018
- Art & Design
- August 18, 2018, 05:00
Come the end of the month, fifty thousand people will descend on Stradbally for the fourteenth Electric Picnic. Alongside catching The Prodigy, Massiv(...)

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teenage years in ‘bombed out’ New York
- Film
- July 13, 2018, 06:00
Sara Driver’s new picture, Boom for Real, about the late teenage years of the New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, is a huge cause for celebration. L(...)

Chiselled demigods and muscled heroes: Tom of Finland’s iconic images
- Film
- August 10, 2017, 05:00
Tom of Finland had more in common with Walt Disney than the American animator would have cared to admit. Both created sharp, well-defined images that (...)