Feature articles

If you build it, will they come? – and what will they do when they get there? Gemma Tipton looks at new art spaces around Ireland, how they're functioning, what they're doing right or wrong | Vox pop: what art would you buy? If money were no object, what art would those questioned want in their collection? | All’s fair? Peter FitzGerald interviews Helen Mason, curator of a new art fair in Dublin this May | Everything is something else Declan Long writes about the work of Patrick Hall | Archive, archive, archive! Julie Bacon on art's new(ish) interest in the archive |

Reviews

Belfast Felt experience Slavka Sverakova | Belfast / Derry Miriam de Búrca: Stealing weeds and me taken out David Hughes | Cork Niamh Lawlor and partners: Based on a true story: A seminar on mis-information Treasa O’Brien | Derry Christine Mackey: Points of departure Julie Bacon | Dublin Drawing is a verb. Drawing is a noun / The square root of drawing / Getting on mother’s nerves – psychological drama in contemporary drawing Siún Hanrahan | Makiko Nakamura Paintings Donal Maguire | John Gerrard: Dark portraits Paul O’Brien | .all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae Eimear McKeith | Santa’s sweet-shop labour force elves (Nevan Lahart and others): X-mass the spot Tim Stott | Matt Stokes: Lost in the rhythm Chris Fite-Wassilak and David Beattie | Galway Tulca Katherine Waugh | New York Corban Walker: Grid stack Tim Maul | Portadown Victor Sloan and Glenn Patterson : Luxus David Hughes | Sligo Jaki Irvine: In a world like this Aileen Blaney | Book John Onians, editor: Compression vs. expression: Containing and explaining the world’s art Brian Curtin | DVD Gary Coyle and Stephen Gardner: The Sea Aileen Blaney |