Salgado in the Mist: Catch the Last Days of Amazon, at the Gallery of Photography. By Deirdre Mulrooney
‘Only black and white?! But there are so many amazing colours – especially in lava. Did you ever think of using colour?’ Peering at me from under the brim of his Tilly hat Sebastiao smiled in Buddha-like fashion before uttering: ‘There are many colours in black and white’.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: The Mary Wishing Tree & Speaking Suppers @ UAC, by Rosita Sweetman
The subject for discussion at March’s Speaking Supper in the United Arts Club in Dublin was, appropriately enough, ‘Being Irish’. …
'Labour': Performance Art at the Lab, Foley street, by Ailve McCormack
The exhibition seeks to address the endurance and hardships women have faced in Ireland and the significance of women in society. It references the enforced labour in the Magdelen Laundries, examines identity and gender, explores stereotypes of the feminine and investigates social ideologies that limit women’s empowerment.
Introducing Darragh Hughes' "Black and White" at the Sebastian Guinness Gallery, by Niamh Murphy
“I made a solid decision after college, I figured if I put the work into my work that other people …
'The Shore': Irish Oscar-winning short film reviewed by Andrea Grunert
Jim (Ciarán Hinds) returns for the first time after twenty-five years to his native Belfast. When his daughter Pat (Kerry …
Catch IMDT's Kooky 'Body Duet' with Ipad at Project Arts Centre til March 3rd
BODY DUET is an energy packed, highly physical duet/duel; for New York’s Michelle Boulé and Ireland’s Philip Connaughton, two exceptional, …
Greg Lloyd on contributing to 'El Gusto' #JDIFF, Algeria's answer to 'The Buena Vista Social Club', and on his new CD – launching this Thursday
My experiences in Algiers, growing up in Australia, a decade living in Ireland, as well as some years living in Paris, all inspired my compositions and the Group’s sound. The music of the GLG weaves together my original composition and re-worked Jazz standards with all of these experiences and influence in mind, for example, Algerian North African Chaabi, Cuban music, Irish music and Jazz – a world/jazz music cocktail.
Come and go to Yellow the film today at #JDIFF
This film of that event has as its premise that to endure is to live and finally to triumph. It engages with the shamanist ritual of healing. Each performance has at its foundation a simple three lined script written by Coogan and demands the performer submit to the masochistic endurance of the actions. These six extraordinary performances filmed in a series of epic takes is an Irish film unlike any other you’ll see this year.
'Without Warning': dancing close in Old Vic Tunnels, inspired by Brian Keenan, reviewed by Andrea Grunert
In 1986, Belfast-born Brian Keenan who had been working for the American University in Beirut for just a few months …
Is it a basketball hoop? Is it a cross? No – it's art, on Bray Head!
Climb to the summit of Bray Head and ponder this witty arty intervention, vulgo-verse! Does one cancel out the other? Or not? We are loving it.
Marie Jones' Directorial Debut 'Fly Me to the Moon', and Sam Millar's 'Brothers in Arms' reviewed by Conor O'Neill
Marie Jones’ first foray as a director bodes well for the future. To write and direct such terse, immediate and enthralling theatre deserves more than applause… I hate loving every show I see: surely there must be a bad play happening? Not tonight.

















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