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10 Irish art galleries worth a road trip for

Ireland is full of remarkable, free, galleries, showing all kinds of art all year round. Here, from small to large, from the regions to the capital, is our essential guide to Irish art galleries you might not have realised you definitely should visit.

Artist Siobhan McDonald on geology, time and the Anthropocene

The morning after I visit the artist Siobhán McDonald in her studio, a headline appears in my Twitter feed: 'Repeated Radio Signals Are Coming From A Galaxy 1.5 Billion Light Years Away'

Eyes peeled - eight artists to watch in 2019

From oil paint to razor wire and neon tubing to super 8 film, here are eight artists at various stages in their careers to keep on your radar in 2019.

Visual art shows to see in 2019

Culture's Art Critic Cristín Leach looks at the year ahead in Irish art exhibitions...

Q: Is it art? A: Does it matter?

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has opened a new show featuring the work of six contemporary "artist makers" as they are sometimes called, or craft artists or fine art crafters, or fine crafters, perhaps?

Performance artist Nigel Rolfe to open cross-border Brexit show

With its implementation still in hot turmoil, a long-planned, two-venue art exhibition in response to Brexit will open this week on both sides of the Irish border, with performances by an artist known for his use of blood, mud, water, milk and flour.

Caravaggio's 'The Taking of Christ' at 25 - the inside story

One of the great joys of the internet lies in occasionally stumbling upon personal websites that publicly record the kind of anecdotes that can only come from oral history and family lore, but which have wider historical associations.

Eva Rothschild to make Double Rainbow for Dublin Docklands

The Dublin-born London-based artist Eva Rothschild is set to make a new outdoor sculpture "on a monumental scale" at The Central Bank's new Docklands Campus location in Dublin.