Have tattoos lost their taboo? As wearable art becomes mainstream Mic Moroney considers the history of this very personal art form
Mic Moroney guides us through the fabulous scenes created by Polish-born, Dublin-based artist Andrzej Mazur who is currently exhibiting at the RUA 135th Annual Exhibition
As Maser prepares for his Graphic Studio Gallery debut, his recent controversy with Dublin City Council reminds us he’s a street-writing man, writes Mic Moroney
Gottfried Helnwein’s imagery is confrontational but this provocation is ultimately designed to jolt us from complacency writes Mic Moroney
Mic Moroney examines the quiet contribution made to Irish art scholarship by the Gorry family business in Dublin
Mic Moroney explores the life and times of Lucian Freud through his paintings on view this summer at IMMA
Mic Moroney previews an exhibition of new work from Mark Francis at Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane in January 2008
The exhibition of Hughie O’Donoghue’s work, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, demonstrates that the figure has finally emerged triumphant, writes Mic Moroney
Mic Moroney investigates the most anticipated and controversial art event staged in Ireland since Ro
Mic Moroney looks at a new study from L Perry Curtis that examines images of dispossession dating from the Great Famine and the Land Wars
A new study on the Great Irish Famine finds that the predominant ideological doctrine guiding British policy in Ireland was one of divine Providentialism, writes Mic Moroney.
Mic Moroney navigates Stephen Brandes’ satirical visual diary featuring in ‘Phoenix Rising’ at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Mic Moroney previews Michael Craig-Martin, an artist whose career has kept pace with one of the most challenging periods in art history, ahead of his retrospective at IMMA
The work in Paul Mosse’s retrospective at VISUAL shows that the artist is still deeply motivated, writes Mic Moroney
Mic Moroney meets Kilkenny’s first family of creatives, war photographer Richard Mosse, potter Nicholas, and artists Tania and Paul whose Quaker background influences
their daily lives.
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