The art of 2024: 10 of Ireland’s best exhibitions of the year
From big group shows exploring topics as vast as time to small but beautifully formed solo painting exhibitions, art has rewarded on many levels this year
Hugh Lane Gallery
The address book of war: La Grande Illusion shows why Brian Maguire is one of Ireland’s most powerful painters
The Irish artist has made witnessing his work – and the subject of the astonishing art in his Hugh Lane Gallery exhibition – since the 1970s
The life model: ‘I’ve fainted because I stood in a weird pose for too long. That was a big lesson’
What I Do: Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana is a part-time life model in the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin
Rubens, Rembrandt and Vermeer invited to National Gallery’s birthday party
It’s the gallery’s 160th birthday, while Hugh Lane Gallery attracts record numbers to its Warhol exhibition
‘Too many eyes do not wear out the art’: the philanthropist who brought Warhol to Dublin
Jordan Schnitzer believes in making art available to everyone. His loans to the Hugh Lane Gallery include images of Chairman Mao, Marilyn Monroe, Campbell’s soup tins and the electric chair
Andy Warhol Three Times Out: Five years of planning, 250 works. This Irish show is a big deal
The Hugh Lane Gallery’s new exhibition is a chance to see art that recalibrated the concepts of celebrity and aesthetics across image, film and music
Augmented reality map could change how tourists and locals experience Dublin city
City council and Google partner up to make the capital ‘first city in the world’ to use AR technology for tourism
Stained glass artist adds Harry Clarke masterpiece to collection
Bluebeard’s Last Wife sold to Brian Clarke for €165,000 – double its lower estimate
‘I’d go for a pint with Willem de Kooning and dinner with Francis Bacon’
A new biography sheds new light on the enigma that is Francis Bacon
No headsets, one-way systems: Reopening Ireland’s museums
Galleries and museums set to open alongside hairdressers in Government’s plans
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Librettos on the beach: Standouts at this year’s Venice Biennale
Also known as the Art Olympics, this vast exhibition features works from 89 countries
Shock of the nude? Adam’s Irish Art sale majors in the human form
The sales feature a selection of nude styles, from the stark anatomical realism of John Luke’s Nude Male to Louis le Brocquy’s subtle Being
Modern greats at deVeres from Yeats to Joseph Walsh
Walsh’s furniture designs have made their way from Kinsale into private and public collections worldwide
Berthe Morisot: ‘I have sinned, I have suffered, I have atoned’
A fine new show re-establishes the painter as a leading impressionist but miscasts her as a feminist icon
‘Are we going to let them burn us at the stake again?’ Jesse Jones’s bewitching art
Jones’s idea for Ireland’s entry into the Venice Biennale was to create a fictional lost past where women held power
Irish musicians call for the return of stolen guitar
Jazz guitarist Hugh Buckley’s instrument was taken from his car in Dublin on Tuesday
Bacon’s brilliance bound up in a new catalogue
The book will list all of Francis Bacon’s works, including 100 previously unpublished paintings
New Year’s Eve around Ireland - how to ring in 2016
Street processions, bodhrán sessions and fireworks displays help to announce 2016
Sir John Lavery’s 1935 ‘Freeman of Dublin’ certificate to be sold at auction
Artist’s hand-decorated certificate to go under the hammer for €2,000-€3,000
Visual Art: Stephen McKenna finds the unity in fragmentation
A fascination with Europe as a ritual cultural entity is reflected in these paintings from 1980 onward
Something for the Weekend
From goats to music festivals, the bank holiday weekend has something for everybody
Harry Clarke stained glass windows to be auctioned
Pieces were made for churches in Ireland, Wales and New Zealand but never installed
One man’s radical plan for the Ha’penny Bridge
British architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens, who died 100 years ago, had strong Irish connections. He once proposed to replace the Ha’penny Bridge with an art gallery
Was sculptor Gerda Frömel too subtle for success?
The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospective
Sleepwalkers: Artistic experiments in biting the hand that feeds
A series of exhibitions organised from the Hugh Lane Gallery play with ideas around institutional critique
Gay Byrne opens Guinness first World War exhibition
Broadcaster’s father, who was a Guinness employee, and seven uncles fought in the war
What’s on around Ireland this weekend
A lovers’ special: Russian literature, hurling and the Meeting on the Turret Stairs
House of WB Yeats’s birth stages harp recital to mark first full moon of 2015
Sandymount Avenue house opens doors to public for 150th anniversary of Yeats’s birth
‘Powerful and historic’ links between Ireland and Belgium explored in new book
Belgium is now Ireland’s third largest export market
In memory of Mad Aunt Celia: painter, Home Ruler and lover of Hugh Lane
Anne Chisholm, chairwoman of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature, on her great-aunt, Sarah Cecilia Harrison, social reformer and first female member of the Dublin Corporation
A big score for this Tipperary hurler
Today is a good day for Sean Keating’s charcoal drawing of his own painting, ‘The Tipperary Hurler’, to go on auction in Dublin
Brother of Princess Diana to appear at Dublin Festival of History
Earl Spencer is best known for his famous eulogy at his sister’s funeral in 1997
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