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

This week’s shows feature a mythologised car and superstition, emerging artists, and beautiful woodturning

Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry

The prolific painter is the most popular artist at auction in Ireland and he inspires either love or hate

An atmosphere of strangeness permeates artist Martin Gale’s work – which makes him the perfect choice to paint the ESB’s storage station in the Wicklow Mountains

‘What has being a writer taught me? Precision. Restraint. Slyness. Envy. Thrift. The value of a good noun’

From ancient cave paintings to modern images, the horse and its representation have remained central to art and artists

Strong demand for the surprisingly humble collection

Total of 134 paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs for sale at Dublin saleroom

Collection of 130 prints, paintings, sculpture and photos valued at €150,000

Behind the obvious big names, the RHA Annual shines

A busy week ahead in Dublin salerooms with major auctions at Adam’s and de Veres

Rural scenes by Martin Gale and Frank McKelvey are among the items for auction