The Need for Close Looking
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Maslow’s Hammer
How can we de-intellectualise visual art? If asked this a year ago, I think I’d have pushed back at the very premise.
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TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023
A mysterious artist hovers around the programme for honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise.
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Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy, Reflex Blue, TBG+S, 28 July–24 September, 2023
There is a navel at the centre of Reflex Blue, a portal between inner and outer worlds.
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Tom dePaor, i see Earth, VISUAL Carlow, 26 February–22 May, 2022
Writing about the colour blue, Rebecca Solnit describes the inaccessible beauty of the distant horizon, ‘the colour of where you are not’.
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From the Archive
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Dominic Thorpe | Hardy Langer : The Artist Will Be Present, Galway, May 2010.
Thorpe’s live Redress State – Questions Imagined, was devised as a long-running durational performance. The artist spent days and weeks in...
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Sam Anderson, Talley’s Folly, mother’s tankstation, 8 April–23 May 2015
The influence of fables and fantasy percolates a show that is clearly indebted to various modes of storytelling. The exhibition’s title is borrowed ..
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On Our Collective Wet Dream
When I was a child, my father encouraged my sister and I to learn the names of the seven signatories of the 1916 proclamation by heart ...
Archive
- The Need for Close Looking Tim Stott Online 18 April 2024 Essay
- Maslow’s Hammer Sara Damaris M. Online 9 April 2024 Essay
- TULCA 2023: honey, milk and salt in a seashell before sunrise, multiple venues, Galway, 3–19 November 2023 Rosa Abbott Online 19 March 2024 Review
- Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, Léann Herlihy, Reflex Blue, TBG+S, 28 July–24 September, 2023 Rachel Donnelly Online 29 February 2024 Review
- Tom dePaor, i see Earth, VISUAL Carlow, 26 February–22 May, 2022 John Graham Issue 14 18 January 2024 Review
- Review of Contemporary Art, Systems and the Aesthetics of Dispersion by Francis Halsall Adrian Duncan Online 20 December 2023 Review
- Avril Corroon, GOT DAMP / PÚSCADH ANUAS, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 21 April–10 June 2023 Niamh Darling Online 15 December 2023 Review
- Dáiddadállu: A Northern Art Network Sheila de Courcy Online 5 December 2023 Essay
- William McKeown, An Open Room, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 30 August–30 September 2023 John Graham Online 27 September 2023 Review
- Loving Football Is a Problem Orit Gat Issue 14 1 July 2023 Essay
- Practical Magic Sarah Kelleher Online 21 June 2023 Essay
- In Conversation: Isabel Nolan with Chris Hayes Chris Hayes Online 8 May 2023 Uncategorized
- Michelle Malone, O, to have a little house, The LAB Gallery, 9 September–5 November 2022 Jennie Taylor Online 5 April 2023 Review
- David Beattie, Points of Contact David Beattie Issue 12 15 March 2023 Essay
- Alice Rekab, Family Lines, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 1 July–25 September 2022 Rosa Abbott Online 21 December 2022 Review
- Red Tape Erica Van Horn Issue 13 10 November 2022 Essay
- Miriam O’Connor, Tomorrow Is Sunday, Sirius Art Centre, RHA, and Macroom Town Hall Rachel Andrews Issue 13 27 October 2022 Review
- In Conversation: Laura Fitzgerald with Michael Waldron Laura Fitzgerald, Michael Waldron Issue 13 26 August 2022 Q&A
- Trisha Brown, Set and Reset, Tate Modern, 24 January–4 September 2022 Gabrielle Schwarz Online 19 April 2022 Review
- Anne Tallentire, But this material…, The MAC, Belfast, 8 September–21 November 2021 Francis Halsall Issue 13 1 April 2022 Review
- In Conversation: Mairead O’hEocha with Adrian Duncan Mairead O'hEocha, Adrian Duncan Issue 12 23 March 2022 Q&A
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