Golden Fleece Award 2025: ‘I was skint last year, and it affected my head so badly. Winning this means a huge amount’
Sasha Sykes and Sarah Browne have won €10,000 each. What do prizes like this one do for artists’ creativity?
Hugh Lane Gallery
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
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
Election 2020: 10 things you should ask your candidate but probably won’t
As funding for the arts continues to erode, here are the questions to ask on the doorstep
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
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