The gallerist Ib Jorgensen was worried on Thursday when only a few turned up for the opening of the German artist Jupp Linssen’s exhibition in Jorgensen’s gallery on Royal Hibernian Way. The parade for today’s American football game was under way, and guests were delayed. The German government owns 17 of Linssen’s pictures, and apparently Angela Merkel likes them, according to the art historian Síle Connaughton-Deeny. The artist Carmel Kelly told the architect Martin Spillane that her picture Galway Hookers has moved from the office of the Minister for Arts to that of the Attorney General.
Jorgensen said it was difficult to find a hotel for Linssen because of today’s match, but a friend of the artist, Christopher Fettes, who lives in Bloomville House at Geashill, near Tullamore, Co Offaly, came to the rescue.
Who we spottedProf John Gilmartin; Ursula Hough-Gormley of the Feis Ceoil; Maura Fennell of Friends of the National Gallery