What separates us from our contemporaries Patrick Pye asserts, is that we believe that the work of art, a painting, is an artifice
Our society is one of quite incredible wealth, sophistication and at the same time crass incomprehension as to how the human heart functions. We drive along in charabancs the like of which Louis 14th, the Sun King, could not have dreamed up but our anxiety level is suicidal. We are our own favourite problem, like Narcissus
Shane O’ Toole finds that the tragic atmosphere that had dogged the buildings of St Joseph’s Reformatory has been exorcised
Paul O’ Reilly previews a major exhibition of new work by John Shinnors which will open in his home town of Limerick on 19 September