Is ‘Radical Science’ by Oisin Byrne and Gary Farrelly “Uniquely Dublin”? – Cast your vote!

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Among others, the Radical Science Guide to Dublin City – a two minute teaser by artists and Dubliners Oisin Byrne and Gary Farrelly – has been shortlisted for the Uniquely Dublin Competition, run by Dublin City Council and The Little Museum of Dublin. Re-thinking the city and renaming some of it’s monuments, the film alludes to a municipal pseudo-history. The …

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Margot Quinn on the Low-Key Philosophy of her exhibition “360 Days” at the Ormond Wine Bar, from December 6th.

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“I’m a small moment person”, shares painter Margot Quinn of her upcoming exhibition “360 Days” at the Ormond Wine Bar.  …

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Get your Catharsis at Lanigan’s Theatre Upstairs with Perfidia, by Jimmy Murphy

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It is so exciting to see a bunch of artists getting together and doing it for themselves on a profit-share …

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“Blooming Great”: Luka Bloom’s This New Morning, reviewed by Dave Kenny

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Let’s dispense with the pachyyderm in the parlour.  Luka Bloom is Christy Moore’s brother. He looks a bit like him …

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Is it a basketball hoop? Is it a cross? No – it's art, on Bray Head!

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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.

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Jeanette Doyle reports back from the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

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Irish Artist Jeanette Doyle reports back from her fifteen day adventure at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh…

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Exclusive: Photographer Sean Hillen talks about his exhibition "Ghost Shops"

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Photographer Sean Hillen chats about his eerie and insightful exhibition “Ghost Shops”, running on the top floor of “Base Camp” on Dublin’s Middle Abbey Street until Sunday, August 13th, at 5pm. VULGO says, climb those stairs to Base Camp summit, and take in the view.

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Royal Ballet-trained Joanna Banks on Coppelia at Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre

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Royal Ballet-trained Joanna Banks, who is director of The College of Dance, Monkstown, has performed in Coppelia over 300 times in her career as an international ballerina. She can’t wait to see the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of the ballet, which is opening at Grand Canal Theatre tonight.

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Deep End Dance & Swimming with my Mother by CoisCeim Dance Theatre

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This month 77 year old Madge Bolger embarks with her son, founder of CoisCeim Dance Theatre, David Bolger, on a national tour of their wonderful two-hander ‘Swimming With My Mother’.

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'A Bird in the Head', by Dragana Jurisic

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VULGO loves photographer Dragana Jurisic’s “surreal documentary” style, as manifest here in her ongoing series, ‘A Bird in the Head’, taken with the Hipstamatic iPhone App.

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Kavaleer Dispatches from the first Irish Animation Festival in Damascus, by Andrew Kavanagh. 1/2.

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Although I’m really only tagging along, I become drawn into the production somewhat and become excited by the collaborative efforts of the Syrian team of talented animators, background artists and cinematographers. There is an air of ‘anything can happen’ among the young filmmakers.Damascus is seeing a movement akin to what was happening in Dublin in the mid-nineties after the Don Bluth studio closed.

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