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Johanna Householder: <em>The subject of art: Badiou, Cobain</em>, singing,  2010, performance shot, <em>CHAOS</em>; photo Jordan Hutchings; courtesy CHAOS
Figure 24: Johanna Householder: The subject of art: Badiou, Cobain, singing, 2010, performance shot, CHAOS; photo Jordan Hutchings; courtesy CHAOS

Online reviews

The Guesthouse, Cork, 23 May 2010
Video killed the radio star, RHA, Dublin, January -February 2010
Locky Morris: From day one, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, April – May 2010
Truth does not matter, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, February 2010
CHAOS, Belfast, February 2010
Ken Fandell: Between me and Galway Bay, 126, Galway, November 2009
Auto-mano, Talbot Gallery, Dublin, March - April 2010
Mark Clare: My world is over, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin, November - December 2009
Abigail O'Brien: Temperance, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, November 2009 - January 2010
Ben Sloat: Package from China, 126 Gallery, Galway, March - April, 2010
Andre Stitt: Everybody knows this is nowhere, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, December 2009 - January 2010
Clodagh Emoe: Cult of engagement, Project, Dublin, December 2009 - January 2010
Jorge Pardo, Irish Museum of Modern Art, February - May 2010
Louise Manifold: Unnatural esoteric, Galway Arts Centre, March - April 2010
Thingamajig - the secret life of objects, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 22 January - 9 May 2010
Fiona O'Dwyer: Strange the rooms we've all lived in, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, September - October 2009
Pop won't eat itself, SOMA Contemporary Art Box, Waterford, January - February 2010
Cora Cummins, Retreat, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, November 2009 - January 2010
We're all the same now, Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast, December 2009
Padraig Robinson: Fun friendship and maybe more, Monster Truck Gallery and Studios, November 2009
Michael Snow: So is this, mother's tankstation, November - December 2009
Aleana Egan, Sunday night: Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, November 2009 - January 2010
Anne Hendrick: The Surface of events, The Talbot Gallery, October - November 2009
Andrew Vickery: New scenes, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin, August - September 2009
Barbara Knezevic: in pursuit of a state of uncertainty, Pallas Contemporary Projects, August 2009
ARSenal Festival Performance - international performance-art festival, Bialystok, Poland, 8 - 10 May 2009
The Beauty of distance
In search of Utopia, Nuns Island Theatre, Galway, May - June 2009
Eoin O Conaill: Common place, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 3 September - 4 October 2009
Paul McKinley, Under the bluebells, The LAB, Dublin, July - August 2009
Elizabeth Peyton: Reading and writing, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, April - June 2009
Sara Barker: Plant dreaming deep, FOUR Gallery, Dublin, August - September 2009
William McKeown: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, November 2008 - January 2009
Art Basel, June 2009
Eoin McHugh: All cognition is recollection, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, July - Sept 2009
Under construction I, Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam, May - June 2009
Louise Neiland: 366 Moons, The Lab, Dublin, June - July 2009
Jim White: Deep fried ephemera, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 4 July - 18 August 2009
Colm Desmond: In/elegant formalism, P-C-P, Dublin, July 2009
Art Basel 40, Basel, June 2009
The Good Hatchery: Iridescence A and the ultra-ordinary, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, May - June 2009
it goes on, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, June – July 2009
Amanda Coogan: The Fall, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 25 June 2009
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, 6 - 18 July 2009
Gavin O’Curry: The Lost American / Crying in the chapel, Goethe-Institut, Dublin, April – May, 2009
Fischli Weiss Fotografias, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, March - May 2009
Angela Darby and Robert Peters: The Horror room, Space Delawab Gallery, Belfast, February 2009
Eileen Neff: Between us, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, January - February 2009
The Time Lord - 25 April 2009
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Present, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, 18 April – 23 May 2009
Fischli/ Weiss: Fotografias, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 27 March - 6 May 2009
Altermodern, Tate Britain, London, 3 February - 26 April 2009
Tsui Kuang-Yu: Invisible city, The Lab, Dublin, March - April 2009
Mark Garry, Pádraig Timoney, Hayley Tompkins: Frequency, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, February - May 2009
Miroslav Tichý, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, November 2008 - January 2009
Valerie Driscoll: Scéal eile, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co Clare, January 2009
Vanessa Donoso López: Mysteries of contemporary inspiration and other wonders, Stone Gallery, October - November 2008
Nicky Larkin and Cecilia Danell: Here and elsewhere, Crow Gallery, Dublin, July 2008
Ian Burns: Don't try this at home, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, September - October 2008
Sean Lynch, Recent finds, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, September - November
Dan Shipsides: Echo Valley/ A guiding dilemma, Void Gallery, Derry, May - June 2008
Angela Darby and Robert Peters: Public address: the people's wall, PS2 Project Space, Belfast, September 2008
Willie Doherty: The Visitor, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, April 2008 - May 2008
Culturstruction, various locations, Dublin, 16 - 19 October 2008
Graduate exhibition pilgrimages 2008: on imitation, sincerity and competition
Psycho buildings, Hayward Gallery, London, May – August 2008
Bookish: when books become art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, July – October 2008
Patricia McKenna: Seachange, Sandycove, Dublin, 3 September 2008
Lee Welch: Never odd or even, The Lab, Dublin, September – October 2008
Project Platform at Dublin Art Fair, September 2008
John Lalor: Forward pass, Pallas Contemporary Projects, March - April 2008
Rowena Dring: Skyline - landscape and memory, Rahn Contemporary, Zürich, 30 August - 25 October 200
To have or to be: contemporary Korean art, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, July – August 2008
A Life of their own, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, 26 April - 30 September 2008
Orla Whelan: We live to see each other, Thisisnotashop, September – October, 2007
‘Beyond the country’ – perspectives  of the land in historic and contemporary art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, October 2007 - February 2008
The Flight of the dodo, Project, Dublin, July - August 2008
Socrates Sculpture Park Annual International Festival, Long Island, New York, 9 July - 27 August (every Wednesday)
Under erasure, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, 10 June – 26 July
Lars Tunbjörk: Vinter and Home, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, September - December 2007
Brian Duggan: A long walk off a short pier - new work by Brian Duggan, G126, Galway, March – April 2008
Burren College of Art MFA Degree Show, April 2007
Philip Lee: Childhood lost and Samantha Clarke: Once the stain was flawless, Stone Gallery, Dublin, 6 June – 5 July 2008
Nina Canell: Slight heat of the eyelid, mother’s tankstation, Dublin, February - April 2008
Paul Mosse, Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 18 April – 27 May 27
Let'go, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, 4 - 15 April 2008
Brendan Early, The Curated Visual Arts Award (Part 2), Douglas Hyde Gallery, March - April 2008
Better is something you build, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, February - March 2008
The Garden of digital lies, The Lab, Dublin, 3 April - 26 April 2008
Ben Readman: Emanate, Stone Gallery, Dublin 2, January - March 2008
Big foot, Monster Truck Gallery and Studio, Dublin, February 2008
Miroslaw Balka: Tristes tropiques, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, November 2007 - January 2008
Ann Quinn, Autumn in Middle East, Summer in West, Cross Gallery, Francis Street, Dublin, January - February 2008
Conor McFeely, The Case of the Midwife Toad (the unrepeatable experiment), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, December 2007 - January 2008
Bill Doyle: Bill Doyle's Ireland - A Retrospective, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 6 December 2007 - 31 January 2008
18 happenings in 6 parts, Deitch Studio, New York, 5 - 11 November 2007
Felicity Clear, Place(s) without place, The LAB, Foley St., Dublin 1, October - November 2007
Thomas Brezing: Seven miles above the earth, The Lab, Foley St., Dublin 1, 15 November - 8 December
Hugh McCarthy and Danny Greaney: Pink noise: Hugh McCarthy and Danny Greaney, The Stone Gallery offsite at Cow's Lane, Temple Bar, 23 November - 1 December 2007
Martin Creed: Martin Creed, Dougles Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October - 1 December [review 2]
Miroslaw Balka: Tristes tropiques, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 14 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
Martin Creed: Martin Creed, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, 19 October - 1 December 2007
Ellen Gallagher: Coral cities, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin 1, 28 September 2007 - 20 January 2008
Overtake: the reinterpretation of modern art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 3 July - 7 October 2007
Robert Peters and Angela Darby: Social Security, Ards Arts Centre, June 2007
Brian Fay:  Some time now, The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1, April - June 2007
Cyprien Gaillard: Desniansky Raion, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, January - March 2007
Some kinda monster, Galway Arts Centre, May - June 2007
Séamus Nolan: Hotel Ballymun, Ballymun, Dublin, March - April 2007
Dylan Tighe: Mise Éire, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 31 October 2006
A Seed of zero, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, December 2006 - January 2007
LAUNCH / Making do, curated by Paul O'Neill, The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1, December 2006 - January 2007
Finola Jones: It's why [blue] birds sing, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, November 2006 - January 2007
Sonia Shiel and David Beattie, Broadstone XL, January, 2007
The Last blue sky, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, January - February 2007
Gavin Murphy: Sketches for a light/ heavy monument, Four Gallery, November - December 2006
Welcome to the neighbourhood, Askeaton, 21-28 August 2006
Tulca 20052006, Galway city, October ñ November 2005
Jill McKeown: (ath)bhaili_ch·n::(re)collection, An GailearaÌ, Fal Carrach, May - June 2006
Albert Oehlen: I will always champion good painting, Whitechapel Gallery, London, July - September
This is serious: reflecting on John Byrne’s exhibition at the Fenton Gallery in Cork, June 2005
Catherine Delaney: Fill, Ballymun (permanent installation)
Roderick Buchanan and Aisling O'Beirn, Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards, May 2006
SinÈad Aldridge: Penumbra, The Dock, Carrick–on–Shannon, February – March 2006
Brian Duggan: More often than most, Pallas Heights, Dublin, November 2005 - February 2006
Seydou Keïta: Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, February - April 2006
Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: self.life.death, Barbican Gallery, London, October 2005 - January 2006
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset: The Welfare Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, January - February 2006
Samantha McKee: The Preserves of the Mind's Larder, Lagan Lookout Tunnel, Belfast, August 2005
Carl Dreyer: The passion of Joan of Arc (La passion de Jeanne d'Arc), 1928, Kilkenny Castle, 20 August 2005
Nicholas Keogh and Patrick Bloomer at the Fifty-first Venice Biennale, October 2005
Lindsay Seers: Eyes of others, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 28 October - 27 November 2005
The September Exposition to mark by Ceremony the Expansion of the Great Defastenist Empire, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 14 - 19 September 2005
Mary-Ruth Walsh: White Goods and White Goods 2 at The Return, Dublin, and Sligo Art Gallery, 5 May - 10 June 2005 and 1 June - 25 June 2005
Patrick Graham, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 20 May - 4 June 2005
Niamh O'Malley: Window, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, May 2005 - 2006
Theo Sims: Splace, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 6 August - 3 September 2005
Franz Ackermann, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 20 July - 23 October, 2005
Ethics of Scale: Brian Walsh at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, 3 September - 1 October 2004
Flow, Lagan Weir, Belfast, 28 April - 7 May 2005
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrence, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 16 March to 29 May 2005
George Bolster: Eye of the Needle, May 6 to June 4 2005, Pallas Heights, Dublin
Pierre Huyghe, Streamside Day, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 February to 15 May; review #2
Bernard Frize: Faces et Profils, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, 2 April - 28 May 28, 2005
Monika Sosnowska: Untitled 2004, Serpentine Gallery, London, 5 December 2004 - 16 January 2005
Roger Andersson, Letters from Mayhem, with text by Albert Mobilio (Cabinet Books, New York, 2005)
Pierre Huyghe, Streamside Day, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 February to 15 May
Trish Morrissey, Seven Years, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 4 March to 3 April 2005
The Royal Art Lodge: Serpentine Musings, 25 February to 9 April, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Michael Landy: Welcome to my world built with you in mind, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, 1 December 2004 - 22 January 2005
Brian Duggan, During the meanwhile, Hugh Lane Gallery off-site project, Mayor Square, IFSC, Dublin, 3 February to 3 March, 2005
Abigail O'Brien, The Seven sacraments, 20 January to 27 February, RHA, Dublin
Gillian Kenny: New Work, Phatory Gallery, New York, 9 September - 2 October 2004
Communism , Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 21 January to 27 February
Thomas Brezing, Remember When We Were Older? Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, 7 - 27 January 2005
David Godbold, Once it was a Lie, Now it's the TruthÖ 14 January to 12 February, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Press Play, 8 January to 12 February 2005, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Eurojet Futures 04, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 17 November 2004 - 9 January 2005
A Angles Vifs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, 10 June - 26 September 2004
Margaret O'Brien: No Man's Land, West Cork Arts Centre, 6 - 27 November, 2004
El DÌa de los Muertos - The Day of the Dead, Naughton Gallery at Queen's, Belfast, 28 October - 11 December 2004
Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 27 October 2004 - 6 February 2005
Patricia Jorgensen, Irish Botanical Art, Dublin, October 2004
Mark O'Kelly, Old Holland, New Amsterdam, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 4 November to 3 December 2004
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 23 October - 1 December 2004
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 23 October - 1 December 2004
Mary Fitzpatrick: Failaka, in Streets of Desire at Jump Ship Rat, the Blade Factory, 3rd Liverpool Biennial Independent, 18 September to 24 November 2004
Niamh O'Malley, The dene, 'vignette' at Visa for 13, PS1, New York, 24 April - 1 June 2004
Gary Coyle, The Wild Wild Wood, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 30 September to 29 October 2004
Paddy McCann at the Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 29 July - 27 August 2004
September, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 3 September - 2 October, 2004
Art of the Garden at Tate Britain, 3 June to 30 August 2004
Juan UslÈ, Open Rooms, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 8 September 2004 to 3 January 2005
Gary Shaw: Art on the Seafront, Bangor, June - August 2004
Marc Quinn, Flesh, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1 July - 12 September 2004
Fred Tomaselli, Monsters of paradise, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 31 July - 3 October 2004
David Stephenson at Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 5 August - 12 September 2004
Sophie Calle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 23 June - 15 August 2004
Yoshihiro Suda, one of two artists in Ma, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 21 May - 14 July 2004
Luís Meléndez: Still Lifes, National Gallery of Ireland, 16 June- 5 September 2004
Yoshihiro Suda and Takehito Koganezawa: Ma, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 21 May - 14 July 2004
João Penalva: R, Presentation Convent, Carlow, 12 - 20 June, 2004
Ronan Smith: Design for Plate, Signal Art Centre, Bray, 27 May - 3 June 2004
Malachi Farrell: Nothing Domestic at Temple Bar Gallery, March / April 2004
Via2 : Various locations on Camden Street, Dublin, April 24 - May 22, 2004
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer : Vectorial Elevation, O'Connell Street, Dublin, April 22 - May 3, 2004
Rita Wobbe: Flight from Reality, Origin Gallery, Dublin, 29 April 29 to 31 May 31 2004
Verne Dawson, March 20 to May 13, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Francesco Clemente:New Works, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Nathan Coley, Show Home, City Arts Centre, Dublin, 25 March to 17 April 2004
Artists Books at The Workroom, 19 March - 3 April 2004
Smirnoff Pure Potential, 'Arthouse', Dublin
Jon Brunberg and Brendan Earley at Temple Bar Gallery
Goya by Robert Hughes
Brendan Earley: Arrival, Pallas Heights Gallery, Dublin, October - December 2003
Shahin Afrassiabi, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 27 January to 6 March
Louise Cherry: Members Only, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
Bernie Masterson: Landscape and Memory, Draíocht, Blanchardstown, 2 December 2004 - 30 January 2005
hungryangrysexy: BA Visual Art IADT D_n Laoghaire
Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, November 2003 - February 2004
Langlands and Bell: The House of Osama bin Laden at the Irish Museum of Modern Art , 10 December 2003 to 8 February 2004
OUR TRUE INTENT IS ALL FOR YOUR DELIGHT: The John Hinde Butlin's Photographs, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 6 December 2003 to 31 Januaary 2004
Tonico Auad at Project December 2003/ January 2004
Living in Motion: Design and Architecture for Flexible Dwelling at IMMA
Ivana Panizzi: Reredos, Trinity College Chapel, Dublin, 31 October - 9 November 2003
Damien Coyle: Art for dyslexics at OMAC
Young bloods out in force in Limerick
The Idea of North at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, January/February 2003
Alistair Wilson: Fonte, Oratorio di San Ludovico, Venice
Margaret Corcoran: An Enquiry, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, September 2002
Karen Kilimnik: Fairy battle, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, September 27, 2002, to February 2, 2003
Bernard Smyth at DraÌocht, Blanchardstown

Online articles

The collision of things: Andrew Duggan in interview with Karlyn De Jongh
Tim Maul interview with Maud Cotter, 2010
Peripheral Vision
Towards a discursive polylogue of Chinese and Western contemporary art criticism
Dorm - opening night, The Model, Sligo, 1 May 2010
Consumerism and its competitors - a Dublin sojourn (or, The last city-break of the noughties)
Ronnie Hughes in conversation with Hilary Murray
Slavka Sverakova and Dougal McKenzie: an e-mail conversation, October/ November 2009
Slavka Sverakova interviews Stephen Conlin by e-mail
Triskel developments
Core rituals: reflections on the video and sculptural installation of Lucia Barnes
The Politics of the centre
Eco-friendly
Slavka Sverakova interviews Mark McGreevy by e-mail (2008 / 2009)
On Takahiro Suzuki's IKIRO: Noah's Ark, ArtTrail 08, Cork, September - October 2008
On the beach - a letter from Nice
Irishness
N2O Vendor
Is that your dog? – a Biennale romance
Shaun Gladwell in interview, Venice Biennale 2009
Slavka Sverakova interviews Samantha McKee by e-mail
Why Rancière? Why not?
The Space in between
Prayer for the potato crop
Siobhán Tattan in conversation with Ciara Finnegan
Student Unions and art students - a report
Something rotten in the state of Denmark? An analysis of the Canon of Danish Art and Culture
Slavka Sverakova and Sinéad O'Donnell: A story of performance 2008
The art of Elizabeth Cope: an interpretation
First past the Post-Colonial
Talking Turk
The spectacle of expectation in public
Travels into urban landscape: the implications of visual culture, public space and the city
Notes on Yellow, a durational performance by Amanda Coogan
If I were you I wouldn’t start from here – ‘The way things go’
Slavka Sverakova interviews Sharon Kelly by email, February – April 2008
Making a meal of sculpture
Slavka Sverakova interviews Aisling O’Beirn by e-mail February 2008
Cultural territory reclaimed - the RUA 2008
Culture's capital
Slavka Sverakova interviews Chris Wilson by e-mail, February 2008
Slavka Sverakova in conversation by e-mail with Susan Connolly
Inspired by human curiosity: an interview with Priscila Fernandes conducted by Niall de Buitléar
ARES 2006
Slavka Sverakova interviews Danny McCarthy by e-mail
In advance of the Crawford Open
An interview with Amanda Coogan conducted by Jessica Foley, February 2007
Nalini Malani in conversation with Jennie Guy
An interview with Nina Canell and Robin Watkins conducted by e-mail
An e-mail conversation between Slavka Sverakova and Craig Staff, May 2007
Fiona Larkin in conversation with Slavka Sverakova
Global enterprise: Gerard Byrne and Willie Doherty at the 2007 Venice Biennale
The gender gap revisited
Joanna Karolini: The bath is hot
The Fine Art of Submission
On Susan MacWilliam's Dermo optics (2006) and Explaining magic to Mercer (2005)
Ronnie Hughes in conversation with Slavka Sverakova after his show, Synthesis, at Sligo Art Gallery, August - October 2006
Martina Corry: Drawing with light
A conversation with Kate Byrne
The enchanting world of Gabriele Leidloff: Imaging the unseen in between science and art
Cycle of seventeen poems by Don Byrne, inspired by a Christopher Harrington photograph
Interview: Tadhg McGrath, showing in the Irish Film Institute, Dublin, 19 April - 31 May 2005
Project: Fiona Larkin: Tesco opera
Where are the Museums...?
Portland, Oregon; The place to go to for Time Based Art
Reflections (interview with Mary Burke)
The Shape of Home from Home(sickness)
A tribute to John Hunt (1957 - 2004)
Globalisation, Cultural Baggage and the Critical Direction of Irish Art Practice
Questions on curating: Valerie Connor
Questions on curating: Cliodhna Shaffrey
Questions on curating: Grant Watson
Summer 2004 - Dislocate, Renegotiate and Flow - Part II: The Practice of Process
A different kind of practice - an interview between Katie Holten and Regina Gleeson
A different kind of practice - an interview between Katie Holten and Regina Gleeson
Dislocate, renegotiate and flow: globalisation's impact on art practice
Drawn to fabric: the art of Michael Brennand-Wood
The State of Irish Art History
Retelling history from lost sources
The collector and thewomaniser
Paul Graham: The Troubles
Outside the box
Louis le Brocquy's A Family: 'An unwholesome and satanic distortion of natural beauty'
Un Identity

Degree shows 2010
Patrick Doyle: from The Ship; courtesy the artist
Patrick Doyle: from The Ship; courtesy the artist

Some of our best writers picked out particular students' works from this year's batch of degree shows around Ireland. More here.



Blogs

Editor's blog

Yesterday in Marienbad (Friday 27 August 2010)
The John and Hazel show (Tuesday 17 August 2010)
Not genius, work (Tuesday 3 August 2010)
Ah, feck it (Wednesday 14 July 2010)
Sweet home Alabama vs Alabama (Wednesday 16 June 2010)
Pacific junk (Tuesday 8 June 2010)
Wiggle room (Tuesday 1 June 2010)
Meet Mr Chen (Monday 31 May 2010)
Quacked (Friday 28 May 2010)
Nationalism, anyone? (Thursday 27 May 2010)
I'm liking Beijing (Wednesday 26 May 2010)
Derridean daze (Tuesday 25 May 2010)
The West rides in (Monday 24 May 2010)
Beliefs (Thursday 21 January 2010)
Bart Simpson finishes in the middle, implying that Whitney Houston boos (Thursday 14 January 2010)
The new black (Monday 21 December 2009)
Placement (Thursday 12 November 2009)
Stomping on mice (Wednesday 21 October 2009)
Dolls (Monday 5 October 2009)
Visual opens (Friday 25 September 2009)
Voodoo in the gallery (Wednesday 23 September 2009)
Teabags (Monday 14 September 2009)
Art and speed (Tuesday 8 September 2009)
The rise of the PDF? (Friday 4 September 2009)
Be thrilled and beware (Friday 14 August 2009)
Going extrinsic (Friday 7 August 2009)
Toast (Friday 31 July 200)
Chainsaw (Friday 24 July 2009)
Playing the percentages (Tuesday 21 July 2009)
Too much art II (Tuesday 14 July 2009)
Too much art (Thursday 9 July 2009)
Going a bomb (Thursday 2 July 2009)
Selling by the centimetre (Thursday 25 June 2009)
Size (Tuesday 23 June 2009)
Simplexity (Wednesday 17 June 2009)
Complexity (Monday 15 June 2009)
Magic (Wednesday 3 June 2009)
Fair video (Thursday 21 May 2009)
Being seen (Friday 8 May 2009)
Mind (Tuesday 6 May 2009)
Googled (Friday 1 May 2009)
Butterflies (Wednesday 8 April 2009)
Times change (Tuesday 31 March 2009)
Depth (Thursday 26 March 2009)
Why (the hell)...? (Tuesday 24 March 2009)
Random sense (Wednesday 11 March 2009)
Community (Friday 6 March 2009)
Hugh Lane opening (Thursday 26 February 2009)
On publishing (Wednesday 25 February 2008)
Circa Salon (Monday 23 February 2009)
Historical insertedness (Friday 30 January 2009)
Sponsorship (Friday 16 January 2009)
Plug (Monday 12 January 2009)
Age limits (Thursday 18 December 2008)
Be (Tuesday 16 December 2008)
Image quality (Thursday 4 December 2008)
Members (Tuesday 2 December 2008)
Web, money, democracy (Wednesday 26 November 2008)
From Nigeria (Monday 24 November 2008)
Colleges survey
RHA (Tuesday 11 November 2008)
Online reviews etc (Monday 3 November 2008)
Space in the mag (Friday 31 October 2008)
Surveys (Wednesday 23 October 2008)
Belfast (Monday 20 October 2008)
Art and literature (Tuesday 14 October 2008)
Circa website (Wednesday 8 October 2008)
Culture Ireland (Friday 3 October 2008)
First blog (Thursday 2 October 2008)

Gemma Tipton's blog
Feeding back (Monday 9 August 2010)
On mediocrity (Friday 9 July 2010)
Protecting the private (Monday 21 June 2010)
Celebrity relationships and contemporary aesthetics (Thursday 10 June 2010)
Killing the love (Tuesday 8 December 2009)
Would different make a difference? (Wednesday 5 November 2009)
Out on the streets (Thursday 1 October 2009)
When will I be famous? (Tuesday 18 August 2009)
Winners and losers (Tuesday 30 June 2009)
Not the only one ranting (or so it seems) (Monday 8 June 2009)
It's enough to make a girl rant (Tuesday 26 May 2009)
Brick by brick (Wednesday 13 May 2009)
FÁS, where are you? (Wednesday 6 May 2009)
Bringing them all back home (Friday 10 April 2009)
When the going gets tough (Wednesday 1 April 2009)
Underpants appear briefly (Wednesday 25 March 2009)
Still thinking about money (Thursday 12 March 2009)
Thinking about money and the media (Wednesday 4 March 2009)


Hilary Murray's blog
The boys are back in town (Tuesday 11 May 2010)
A lively start to the year (Thursday 28 January 2010)
Escapology (Thursday 7 January 2010)
The Burden of proof (Thursday 3 December 2009)
It was a great affair, but now it's over! (Monday 9 November 2009)
A turn to stardom (Monday 19 October 2009)
Ad nation (Tuesday 29 September 2009)
Eye games (Thursday 17 September 2009)
Modernist mania (Tuesday 8 September 2009)
Wherein lies the talisman? (28 August 2009)


David Brancaleone's blog
Towards the other side (Wednesday 9 December 2009)
Venetian translations (Wednesday 24 June 2009)
The Venice shuffle (Monday 8 June 2009)
Print on demand (Tuesday 12 May 2009)
The year of the exchange (Friday 1 May 2009)
Going free (Friday 24 April 2009)


Rayne Booth's blog

Towards the other side (Wednesday 9 December 2009)
Venetian translations (Wednesday 24 June 2009)
The Venice shuffle (Monday 8 June 2009)
Print on demand (Tuesday 12 May 2009)
The year of the exchange (Friday 1 May 2009)
Going free (Friday 24 April 2009)




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