The life-changing work of Alice Maher, an artist to her bones
The Irish artist has spent decades making the everyday uncanny. With her work on show at the Venice Biennale, she talks about myth, misogyny and the power of art
Eithne Jordan
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
Get shaken - and a little stirred - with antique cocktail cabinets
Sale also features significant work by Patrick Caulfield
RHA Annual: No wallflowers at this rowdy art party
With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with
Oil paint can imitate anything but John Noel Smith pushes it beyond mimicry
And in Tableau, Eithne Jordan shows why she needs to paint
The best art shows to spend time with this week
Chain reactions and knitting the Border, what's on in the arts this week
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show
Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises
Leading works of art popping up in Sligo schools
Model arts centre outreach scheme takes paintings out of gallery to inspire children
David Crone and the art of slow accumulation
A retrospective of one of Ireland’s best living painters shows he is still innovating
Pieces of me: artist Anita Groener
This Dutch-born artist loves her studio and says interiors without art and books are lifeless
Pieces of me: Paula Rowan, glove designer
Paula Rowan’s latest collection of gloves was inspired by the colours of the sea, which sparkle through the unadorned windows of her Sandycove apartment
Leading Irish artists call for repeal of 8th amendment
Novelists, poets and painters state abortion amendment is ‘ongoing cause of shame’
Discontent and material gain at student shows | Visual Art round-up
NCAD’s troubles spilled into its degree show, although there was work of note there and at DIT and IADT
A show that’s a year in the life of the RHA’s members
Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie
Dorothy Cross’s all-seeing shark’s eye
Bits of shark and a barrister’s wig: there is no mistaking Cross’s work
Serving up an Italian architectural confection on a plate
Asked to create art works around the 18th-century Casino in Marino, artists came up with a delicious project, ‘Meditation on Plates’
RHA annual show: Forgetting the theory and focusing on the work
The beauty in the RHA annual show is that while among the 560-plus works, you’re unlikely to be ambushed by art theory
Mane frame: equine art in the Year of the Horse
From ancient cave paintings to modern images, the horse and its representation have remained central to art and artists
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