Jacques Rivette’s film is striking for its psychological complexity, its depiction of artistic practice, and marks a timely reminder of the disquieting…

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Ever since the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined the human being both as a political animal (zoon politikon) and as an animal endowed with speech and reason (zoon logon echon), the relations...

While the visual arts remain in a fragile state, the government’s Basic Income for the Arts has helped make creative practice more viable

Pouvons-nous nous passer de gouvernement ? Peut-on lutter contre la flexibilité généralisée au nom de la plasticité ? Ce sont des questions au cœur de la…

Social media ban on under-16s a ‘sticking plaster on gaping wound’, Dáil hears

Visual art: Despite turning 80 this year, the Irish artist shows no sign of retreating into habit

The Derry artist draws on his and his family’s health problems to raise the spectre of state violence in his city

While ­these assignments ­will not turn someone ­else into me, they ­will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.

One of Ireland’s most technologically sophisticated artists renders tangible the virtual realities that underlie 21st-century economies

The accomplished artist continues to explore long-standing preoccupations into structure, scale, utility and proportion

Ella Bertilsson’s work oscillates between pointed satire and reflections on social isolation

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Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling

Visual art: Including an early work by Evie Hone, this impressive collection ranges across styles and genres of abstract painting

What Is Contemporary Art for Today? collects twenty-five responses to the titular question, with essays by artists, writers, and critics.

At Uillinn, in west Co Cork, the artist collective Salt & Pepper and the curator Michael Waldron team up to foreground queer identity and romance

The novelist has an ability to connect Ireland’s historical roots with its modern realities, but the multiple monologues of his story can struggle on a bare stage