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Exhibition Review | Fore, fold @ Pallas Projects/Studios
A beam of blinding spring sunlight shone through the trees into the empty schoolyard. Even this place, with brightly coloured walls and hopscotch markings on the ground, seems to bear the ghostly remnants of the lives who once…
Unrepresentable Trauma | Interview with filmmakers Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko
In 2017, filmmakers Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko joined forces in directing their stirring debut Kuro. Kuro follows the uncanny story of Mr. Ono (Mr. Black in Japanese). The story is recounted by a young Japanese woman named Romi, as she…
Exhibition Review | staring forms @ Temple Bar Gallery
And other withered stumps of time
Were told upon the walls; staring forms
Leaned out, leaning, hushing the room
Enclosed.
–T.S Eliot
Staring forms is a group show at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, a collaboration between artists…
Cartoon Catch Up | The Karate Kid: the Animated Series
Season two of Cobra Kai, a continuation of the hugely popular Karate Kid franchise, is back. This series looks to be an exciting addition to the Karate Kid canon. With four original films, a reboot with Jaden Smith and this series on…
Grand Tourismo | Art Through the Lens of a Smartphone
A few weeks ago I went to Florence. I visited the Uffizi Gallery. I saw Botticelli’s the Birth of Venus. I got the picture and I shared it on my Instagram story.
Like the Louvre in Paris or the MET in New York, the Uffizi attracts millions…
Save the Date | Culture Date with Dublin 8, 18-19 May
Looking for something to do this weekend? Here's over 30 events you can attend for free as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 Festival. The festival runs from Saturday 18th to Sunday 19th of May.
Now in it's third year, Culture Date…
Five Visual Artists Making Waves in Fashion
As a vehicle of creative expression, fashion is a powerful art form that often draws from neighbouring genres in its designs. Long before the Campbell’s soup cans, the Elizabeths, the Marilyns, and the Maos, there were shoes.
Andy Warhol …
‘I like to make other people look and feel good through photoshoots’ | Interview With…
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m a fashion and portrait photographer from Dublin, currently living in New York. I spent some time here during the summer last year, and came back in February on a J1 graduate…
What’s On | Top Visual Arts Events in May
Check out our top picks of visual arts events in May taking place around the country!
Fore, fold | Marie Farrington
Pallas Projects
10 - 25 May 2019
Fore, fold uses a ghost story, embedded in the history of Marsh’s Library, to unpack…
Who is Cindy Sherman? | A Postmodern Portrait of the Artist
Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills fits neatly, in many ways, into the criteria set out by postmodernism. The series grapples with the idea of the constructed self, and the illusion of identity. It also raises questions about the state of…