Designing New Bank Coins
New from the Summer 2018 edition. The Central Bank goes to considerable trouble in selecting designs for new Irish coins and recently introduced a new website where the public can buy collector coins online Read More
Art Comment
Eileen Mac Donagh’s Sculptures
New from the Summer 2018 edition. Make no mistake about it, the Per Cent for Art Scheme (PCAS) introduced in 1986 has already provided the greatest stimulus for the production of new art since the foundation of the state Read More
Supporting the art of design
New from the Summer 2018 edition. Is there any hope at all that the new Minister for the Arts, Josepha Madigan will provide a new and substantial boost of income directly to Irish artists? Read More
Spanish honour for George Campbell
New from the Spring 2018 edition: The University of Malaga has announced a research award in memory of the Irish artist George Campbell who lived for many years in the south of Spain. Read More
Aosdána Membership
In the Spring edition of the Irish Arts Review, it is stated that ‘the Arts Council has increased the Cnuas payments from €12,180 per annum to €20,000 per annum over the next three years.’ That statement was taken from an Arts Council Press Release in 2008 and unfortunately did not come to pass – to date at any rate.
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Will the new culture Minister be Innovative?
New from the Spring 2018 edition. To be elected as an ordinary (there are forty of them) councillor of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in May 2014, then to be elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2016 general election and then Read More
Patrick Pye (1929-2018)
The Irish Arts Review remembers Patrick Pye (1929-2018) who recently passed away. Patrick Pye was credited with revitalising religious art through his paintings, designs for stained-glass and a number of altarpieces. He was also a noted printmaker and a writer of clarity on … Read More
Rethinking Käthe Kollwitz
The recent discovery in Finland of three new Kollwitz works missing since the end of World War II will have pleased those who enjoyed the recent exhibition of her work entitled ‘Life, Death and War’ at the National Gallery of … Read More
Nicola Gordon Bowe
We mourn the passing of Nikki Gordon Bowe, a long-time contributor to the Irish Arts Review Read More
Melissa Ellis At Marsh’s Library
New from the Winter 2017 edition. Something different going on in Marsh’s Library beside St Patrick’s Cathedral is an exhibition of print works by Melissa Ellis. Read More