This summer sees Dublin City Gallery arrayed with its debut collection of 300 works of art and, for the first since 1913, all thirty-nine of the controversial conditional paintings will be shown together, writes Mic Moroney
After breathing the rarified air of its new modern wing since 2006, Dublin City Gallery (DCG) is reverting to its origins as Hugh Lane’s celebrated 1908 prototype of a Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. The show includes most of the 300 original works, plus pieces Lane added to the collection before he drowned with the Lusitania. It fills the entire building, seeping into the new galleries, where the old paintings have demanded staining the white walls with warmer hues, even salon-style hanging
