This week I will be mostly… blaspheming.

Blasphemous - IMOCA How times have changed. Here we are in the middle of “Holy Week” once again, but this year the build up to the Easter eggs seems a little different. In the past year, the reports on sexual abuse of children by the catholic church has fuelled renewed anger at the organisation. As a result, many people – through www.countmeout.ie – have... Read More

Sailing down Thomas Street

Kennedy Browne - 167 Tomorrow evening the annual road-trip for the Irish participants in the previous year’s Venice Biennale rolls into Dublin with the work from both the Irish and Northern Irish pavillions of 2009 going on display. The exhibitions by Sarah Browne & Gareth Kennedy and Susan MacWilliam will be installed in both the NCAD Gallery on Thomas Street and in... Read More

3 Men and A Little Exhibition

Mark Ferguson If you’re the type who pays attention to the other nonsense I spew on the interweb, such as the Twitters and when I do a Facebook, you might have seen my recommendation of an exhibition opening last Thursday evening. If not, you didn’t, but it seems that a huge crowd packed in the doors and valiantly destroyed the supply of wine and home-made cakes anyway.... Read More

This week I will be mostly… on paper.

Oisin Byrne's Paper Ball After a pretty quiet Thursday around the Dublin art scene, Friday arrives with all sorts of gusto! In the earlier part of the day, I’m hoping to catch one of the screenings of Oisin Byrne’s “Paper Ball” (pictured above). The film was shot in Castletown House last November and features a huge cast tearing about the luxurious surroundings... Read More

This week I will be mostly… spinning the wheel.

Yesterday's Tomorrow Today Some recommendations for your art-devouring pleasure this week. Thursday night is busy as always with a good few shows opening. ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrow Today’ is a collaborative show between Leslie Cullinan and mega-celebrity artist Helena O’Connor. The show deals with several questions relating to time and ultimately (the one... Read More

re: public

re: public Really wanted to post about this a while ago, but life certainly does have a habit of getting in the way. ‘re: public’ is the current exhibition in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, which opened last week with a launch event after two weeks of construction which took place openly in the gallery. You can grab the full details on the show – which is a... Read More

The Golden Bough: Katie Holten

The Golden Bough: Katie Holten The Golden Bough series at the Hugh Lane has been running for quite some time now. After several successful outings in the past year or so, the first venture for 2010 is a solo show by Katie Holten. The show will feature a mixture of drawing, sculpture and text as she continues to delve into her interest in our relationship to, and effect on, nature... Read More

Ceol na Cathrach

Photography by Mick O'Connor Temple Bar’s annual (?) TradFest kicks off this week with gigs and events happening around the city’s “cultural quarter”. As part of the whole traditional Irish music knees-up, there’ll be an exhibition of photography by Castle Ceili Band flute player, Mick O’Connor in Studio 6 of Temple Bar Gallery & Studios... Read More

This week I will be mostly… in the dark.

Wendy Stephens It’s gonna be one of those. About once a month Dublin ends up with approximately one bajillion exhibition openings on the one Thursday night. Today is one such Thursday. The mayhem is also compounded by the fact that we’re a tidy month from Christmas and the end of another calendar year of spending Arts Council funding wisely, so plenty of galleries are... Read More

On the Trail

Super Extra Bonus Party - ALT* Only 42 more shopping days till Christmas! I mean… I’m about to shoot off on a train to Cork for a few days. Nobody knows if or when I shall return or what I’ll be doing down there but the clever money is on me being back this weekend and more than likely checking out Art Trail goodness and Basement Project Space. But if you’ll... Read More