Theme: Art and Film

Cocteau: Il était une fois James Armstrong explores the continuing significance of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete in visual culture

Art and film: an unruly dialogue by Mick Wilson

Excluded by the nature of things? Irish cinema and artist's film Maeve Connolly looks at the policies and some of the products

Project: The car called the Manager Brian Hand (additional photography credit: Ros Kavanagh)

n.i.-film-art-docu-drama by Declan Sheehan

Retelling history from lost sources Orla Ryan examines the use of 'found footage' as a critical tool in art practice

Features

The state of Irish Art History The teaching of art history in Ireland: what it's like, and what should it be like? Here James Elkins gives his thoughts on the matter

"Museums patronise, isolate and neutralise artists" In the final of this series of articles, Gemma Tipton looks at the relationship of both the artist and the architect to the gallery space

Reviews

Paris: Dead Bodies at Centre Culturel Irlandais

Belfast: And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other at the Ormeau Baths

Edinburgh: After Image at the Fruitmarket

Bristol: Lucy Gunning

Portadown: Alice Maher at Millennium Court Arts Centre

Dundee: Claire Barclay at Dundee Contemporary Arts

Inishowen: Beacon head>land at Fort Dunree

Derry: Consuming Identities at Context Gallery and Workhouse Museum

Dublin: Woollenmaiden Hús at Project

Rome: Think Over at Rialto Santambrogio

Sligo: Vivienne Roche at Model Arts and Niland Gallery

The Day's All Mine, by Heather Allen

Cork: Daphne Wright at Crawford

Belfast: Perspective 2003 at the Ormeau Baths

Derry: Ciarán O'Doherty at Context

Dublin: Dearcadh: Visionaries of 1791-1803 in Kilmainham Gaol

Dublin: Superbia at 11 Coultry Gardens, Ballymun

London: Breda Breban at St. Augustine's Tower and 99 Hoxton Street

Belfast: John Duncan at Belfast Exposed

Lisbon: Veneer/Folheado at ZŽ dos Bois

Kilkenny: Ursula von Rydingsvard at Butler Gallery

Belfast: Veneer/Folheado at Catalyst

Manchester: Grace Weir at Cornerhouse

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