The Russians are here, but they'll be gone by the close of business today. Works by artists including Nikolay Rotko (on the ground floor) and Vasiliy Morozov (on the first floor) went on view at the Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, earlier this week. The great painters of the Siberian plains are brought to us courtesy of Belfast man Sheldon Devenney, who talks of artists battling through freezing blizzards in the Novisibirsk region to bring their paintings to the public. You can almost smell the snow and the ice on the paintings hanging in the gallery.
Joan Gleeson, from Ballsbridge, loves Blue Bouquet and Heat. "They are telling a story, there's a marvellous sense of atmosphere," she says. Kevin Rutledge, a part-time art historian from Rathgar, loves Trees.
David O'Neill and his daughter, R≤is∅n O'Neill, who begins her third-level studies at art college this year, are equally taken with Heat.
Jenny Clancy and her boyfriend, Ben Marchant, a nightclub manager at Coyote Lounge on D'Olier Street (close to The Irish Times), come in too. Have we heard about the recent launch by top UK DJ Steve Sutherland of "fresh and funky" sounds on Sundays from 10.00 p.m.? he wonders.