Woodrow Kernohan

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Matt Packer, the new director of EVA International. Photograph: Deirdre Power
Eva International announces Matt Packer as new director

The curator and writer Matt Packer has been appointed as successor to Woodrow Kernohan as director of EVA International, Ireland’s biennial exhibition(...)

Japanese pavilion: thousands of keys hang as part of Chiharu Shiota’s installation The Key in the Hand, at the 56th Biennale of Arts, in Venice. Photograph: Domenico Stinellis/AP
When Africa came to the Arsenale, and the Irish Biennale adventure

International art fairs are like art supermarkets for the wealthy, and they have come to dominate the contemporary-art market. Art biennials, on the o(...)

Sean Lynch. Photograph: Deirdre Power
The inventive and industrious Sean Lynch is a good fit for Venice Biennale

Sean Lynch is one of a handful of Irish artists to have studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. They don’t give you a degree or a(...)

Aidan Dunne’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

What were your cultural highlights of 2014? Eva International, in Limerick, curated by Bassam El Baroni, was easily on a par with other art bi(...)