Scott of the aesthetic: 70 years of golden artPainter, printmaker, architect, designer: Patrick Scott, who has died at the age of 93, made an inestimable contribution to Irish cultural lifeFri Feb 14 2014 - 17:10
Mark Garry’s show of many threadsThe artist’s exhibition at Sligo’s Model incorporates thread installations, photographs, film and a musical collaboration featuring Cillian MurphyThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:00
When poverty is a virtue: ‘art is not a commodity for rich people’Andrea Büttner’s art dispenses with market value concerns and recasts humble, workaday materialsMon Feb 03 2014 - 01:00
Art of darknessRichard Mosse’s dispatches from Congo, in ‘The Enclave’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy, dispense with familiar styles of war-zone reportage to show life in the rawSat Feb 01 2014 - 01:00
Fascinated by surfaces and what lies beneathRobert Armstrong’s work is influenced by his training as an academic not to make easy assumptions about artSat Jan 18 2014 - 01:00
Cloudy with a chance of artistic smiley facesStuart Semple says creative therapy saved his life, and since then he has championed its cause, created a cracking body of work and taken on Charles SaatchiMon Jan 06 2014 - 01:00
Paintings of taoisigh stick to the middle of the roadSome of our best artists have created uninspiring portraits of former leadersMon Jan 06 2014 - 01:00
Shack love: bothies built in the spirit of art and adventureA team of mainly non-builders has constructed four shacks in unspecified locations in Ireland, each with a specific purpose. In the remote Library, for instance, adventurers who find it can place books they loveFri Dec 13 2013 - 01:00
Anarchy and the art of survivalTemple Bar Gallery and Studios, now 30 years old, are a vital part of Dublin’s cultural quarterSat Dec 07 2013 - 01:00
French artist Laure Prouvost surprise winner of Turner Prize for tea party piecePrestigious art award presented in Derry, its first time outside BritainMon Dec 02 2013 - 20:13
Emotional intensity and extreme imagery hallmarks of Bacon’s record-breaking styleArtist’s top auction price prior to Tuesday was a still hefty $86.3mThu Nov 14 2013 - 01:00
Turner Prize 2013: trooping to Turner on tourDerry has delivered as a venue for the prestigious art award show – and is in danger of eclipsing the work by David Shrigley, Tino Seghal, Laure Prouvost and Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeSat Oct 26 2013 - 01:00
Derry courts controversy as Turner Prize opens ‘offshore’ for first timeShow features animatronic male mannequin urinating in bucketWed Oct 23 2013 - 18:37
Enter the Grouch: a world inspired by Sesame StreetOscar the Grouch was devised as a means of teaching a young audience about otherness. Artist Sam Keogh takes that concept and runs with itThu Oct 17 2013 - 13:18
Imma comes back with a bangThe Irish Museum of Modern Art is reopening its main building, at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, with a weekend of family-friendly events – and a terrific Eileen Gray exhibitionSat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00
Leonora Carrington: the mythical world of a rediscovered surrealistImma 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: IrelandWed Sept 18 2013 - 18:26
Michael Farrell: an international artist who never forgot his rootsMicheal Farrell, one of the greatest Irish artists of his generation, is well served by a new showSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:00
Sign us up: the world of Bob and RobertaThe visual art of Bob and Roberta Smith – aka Patrick Brill – is political, humorous and all about empowering the spectatorThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
O’Malley takes on Mayo: five galleries, one visionNiamh O’Malley has taken on an ambitious project that amounts to five exhibitions of her recent work in venues across Co MayoFri Aug 02 2013 - 01:00
Magnhild Opdøl: A taste for cruelty, death and doughnutsThe Irish-based Norwegian artist’s work focuses on the unpalatable realities of the natural worldMon Jul 22 2013 - 01:00
John Gerrard’s ‘Cuban Schools’ illustrate the deceit at the heart of the notion of perpetual growthProjections in the Absolut Gallery at the Galway Arts Festival’s use technology more commonly seen in gaming to build an eerie virtual world that allows viewers to explore the decline of a utopian idealSat Jul 20 2013 - 01:00
Skateboards and see-saws: gripping art in GalwayJohn Gerrard, Howard Hodgkin and Richard Gilligan shine at Galway Arts Festival’s visual-arts strand, while Heneghan Peng’s giant wooden see-saw bench is a big hitFri Jul 19 2013 - 01:00
Virtuoso displays from masters of their craftMuch of the work in ‘Five into Four’ inhabits an in-between zone where craft becomes artisticFri Jul 12 2013 - 01:00
Ireland in photographs: the Uncertain State we’re inTen photographic artists address ‘the crisis in Ireland’ in a key exhibition in the PhotoIreland festivalFri Jul 05 2013 - 01:00
The cultural space that Dublin’s docklands needA second chance to convert Stack A on Dublin’s George’s Dock into a contemporary art museum must not be missedThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
A window on life in the west before the FamineWilliam Evans’s 1830s watercolours of Galway, Connemara and Mayo convey a sense of extreme beauty allied with inhospitable desolationTue Jun 25 2013 - 01:00
Picasso, Lennon, Dalí and more: artists in their own imageAn exhibition of portraits puts artists in the frame, and highlights where their public and private selves divergeThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:00
RHA Annual Exhibition 2013 Scores HighlyBehind the obvious big names, the RHA Annual shinesMon Jun 03 2013 - 01:00
Tricks and time travel at the Casino MarinoConnolly Cleary’s latest clever installation takes one of Ireland’s most intricately designed buildings as its source material and settingWed May 29 2013 - 01:00
When life gets in the way yet art continues to be made’Emerging Artists’ challenges a cultural fixation on youthTue May 28 2013 - 02:00
Five artists reinvent the Monument at Lismore CastleDanh Vo’s Statue of Liberty segments top the bill in a monumental settingFri May 10 2013 - 02:00
Imma looks for the money shot with its new exhibitionThe gallery’s new group show is about cash and all the other currencies that are shaping European identityWed May 01 2013 - 06:00
It’s not great art, but it is good mythmakingSeán Keating wanted to establish an authentically Irish school of art. It’s debatable how successful he was, but there’s no denying the importance of his paintings to our historySat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
A brush with the Troubles leaves a lasting legacy on McCann’s artPaddy McCann’s Northern-themed works are eloquent visions of the long-term costs of violenceMon Apr 15 2013 - 07:00
A pop art show that’s gone flatThe Andy Warhol exhibition at the Mac in Belfast attempts to package culture as entertainment, but there’s little depth beneath the veneerMon Apr 08 2013 - 06:00
The orchard in which art grewA family orchard inspires Helena Gorey’s latest paintings, photographs and videoMon Apr 01 2013 - 06:00
Mark Francis: making waves on a macro levelIn a previous show, Mark Francis trained his eye on a microscope. Now, he’s gone telescopicFri Mar 22 2013 - 06:00
Why it might finally be time to shout Great ScottWilliam Scott’s still lives fell out of fashion - but this is the year that could bring them backSat Mar 09 2013 - 06:00
How Cubism knocked the corners off Irish art'Analysing Cubism' at Imma examines the movement's enduring impact on Irish artistsMon Mar 04 2013 - 00:00
Trouble = ProgressMillennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Co Antrim Until Mar 20 millenniumcourt.orgFri Feb 22 2013 - 00:00
Analysing CubismIrish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin Feb 20- May 26 Tues-Sat 10am-5.30pm (Wed 10.30am-5.30pm), Sun noon-5Fri Feb 15 2013 - 00:00
Eloquence on draught: the Yeats sketchbooksJack B Yeats was known as a removed observer. A new exhibition gives an insight into the outsiderSat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
DetouchedProject Arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin Mon-Sat 11am-8pm Until Mar 30 projectartscentire.ieFri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
Fine memorial and a worthy debutJessica Sturgess remembers the late Barry Flanagan in her first solo showFri Jan 25 2013 - 00:00
The tentative beauty of Basil Blackshaw's artBasil Blackshaw cleared himself a corner in Northern Irish art in the 1950s, and he has lost none of his ability when it comes…Tue Jan 22 2013 - 00:00
A Piano in the Kitchen and Other StoriesDraíocht, Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Until Feb 16 draiocht.ie 01-8852622Fri Jan 18 2013 - 00:00
Capital honour for modest master of the countrysideLast year the painter Basil Blackshaw, by common consent one of the finest living Irish artists, turned 80 and to mark the occasion…Fri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Uncovering stories in a deserted cottageAn installation of a lost Limerick dwelling links exhibitions in Dublin and ViennaFri Jan 11 2013 - 00:00
Exploring sublimely ridiculous AntarcticaPortadown group show ‘Crystalline’ probes Antarctica’s seductive landscapesFri Jan 04 2013 - 00:00
Viola, visions and videoBill Viola is a pioneering video artist whose use of the medium has developed in tandem with video technologyMon Dec 31 2012 - 00:00
