Portraits of politicians
Dalkey-based artist John Keating has been commissioned by the OPW to paint the official portrait of the former Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett. Read More
Comment Winter 2016
Anne Crookshank’s achievements
Although the foundation of the History of Art department in TCD was undoubtedly the major achievement in Anne Crookshank’s long and distinguished academic career, she will probably be best remembered for the landmark publication in 1978 of Painters of Ireland c. 1660-1920, with Desmond FitzGerald, the Knight of Glin. Read More
Alex Pentek down under
The last time Alex Pentek was mentioned in these pages (Spring 2014 p8), he had just secured a commission for a giant violin cast in Corten steel to be partially submerged on a bank of the N5 Longford bypass. Now he has moved on to a much larger commission for the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia with a budget of €220,000. Read More
Threat to the National Museum Update:
‘The National Museum on Kildare Street was built by the firm of J and W Beckett, respectively grandfather and granduncle of Samuel Beckett. This seems somehow apt. There is a black and bleak humour to the way the Seanad is moving in on the building – and this Beckettian tone is about the only part of this disgraceful saga that shows any awareness of Ireland’s artistic and cultural heritage.’ Read Fintan O’Toole’s article in the Irish Times here. Read More
Editor’s Letter Winter 2016: Seanad threat to National Museum
As we go to press, more than 2,400 people from all over Ireland and many from abroad have signed the Irish Arts Review Appeal to An Taoiseach to call an immediate halt to the proposed move of the Seanad into the National Museum building on Kildare Street. Read More