Bit of a run-around yesterday. Maria McKinney's show at the Lab, Foley Street, Dublin - catch it if you can, it ends tomorrow, and she's done some very interesting stuff with tables and jigsaws, shopping baskets and hair - then off to Drogheda. A mix-up in Swords meant we missed Amanda Coogan's reading at the Highlanes Gallery, but did get a shot at the show itself. Marienbad Palace, curated by Jacqui McIntosh, engages the whole of the space, a converted church.

Feedback is an interesting thing - thank you to everyone who responded to On mediocrity (9 July) - there's the public face and the private face, where (as was discussed) everyone says "you're great" to your face but god knows what's going on behind your back. Writing for print can be like sending words into a void, and by the time one piece is published you're in the thick of researching and writing the next, or even the one after, so print feedback can seem a little...more


Hilary Murray's blog
The boys are back in town (Tuesday 11 May 2010)

The Morton Feldman exhibition at IMMA has returned high drama to high modernism; the works chosen for the show are exquisite. Each piece sits so well within the framework of the show that it has to be seen with a mind to the music of Feldman; something IMMA adeptly managed with a concurrent concert series of Feldman's work.  It makes one nostalgic for shows that are actually linked to their original premise. Speaking of modernist masters, not that he is one but he certainly r...more


David Brancaleone's blog
Art in the Making/2: the making in theory

Could we do something for nothing and without funding? Could we even opt against funding as a way of being? Be so cheap that we are free? And instead organise Bake 2 make stalls as fundraisers. We wanted to do something tangible, talk seriously about art in the making; but also, something that was not entirely goal-oriented. Could space be found for real dialogue (Bakhtin), beyond the now neatly institutionalized boundaries of the simulacrum of rela...more


Rayne Booth's blog
Towards the other side (Wednesday 9 December 2009)

I have been off radar for a while due to a complete lack of time after taking up a new job. Anyway, I thought I would dip my toe back into the blogging waters with a general reflection on what it happening in the art world and general Irish sphere at the moment. Yesterday, Adrian Duncan for the Someblindalleys blog wrote a review of Circa's new ...more