Audrey Whitty discusses highlights from the National Museum’s principal long-term exhibition, beginning this winter, which focuses on the rare Asian objects d’art donated by philanthropist Albert Bender in the early 1930s.

This month a major exhibition of the Asian art collection given by one of the first benefactors to the Irish State, Albert M Bender (1866-1941) opened at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. This long-term exhibition has been several years in planning and showcases for the first time since the 1970s the Museum’s most important Asian art collection
Róisín Kennedy discusses Carey Clarke’s Portrait of My Daughter, Michelle, the winner of the Ireland-US Council Portrait Prize at the 178th RHA Annual Exhibition
Riann Coulter finds a personal compendium collated with daring and vigour, in Basil Blackshaw’s work