In recent weeks you might have seen posters advertising the Andy Warhol Three Times Out exhibition at Hugh Lane; it’s been heavily promoted throughout the city. The banners need only display Warhol’s name, and his most iconic image – a … Continue reading Andy Warhol Three Times Out A Review of the Warhol exhibit at the Hugh Lane Gallery
Originally Published in Print, February 2023. Almost three years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the National Gallery of Ireland announced an exhibition courtesy of the Tate Gallery in London: nearly ninety artworks by J.M.W. Turner on display in … Continue reading The Exuberant One A Review of Turner: The Sun is God in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Luring us into a fantastical world of fragmentation and fluidity, Bassam Al-Sabah has turned the Douglas Hyde Gallery into a space, or rather, an expanse, in which reality is unbounded. Constructs of gender, time, and body dissipate into a world … Continue reading Bassam Al-Sabah’s Dreamlike Odyssey through the Self. A review of the artist’s solo exhibition ‘IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS’ at the Douglas Hyde Gallery.
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen. A 90’s style small paperback. A man on the cover, his white blouse billowing. It barely covers his abs. A wide eyed woman gazes at him adoringly, her hair flowing behind her. The book itself … Continue reading Romance novels High Art or cheap pulp?
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Art by Emily Stevenson “I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs” – Francis Bacon The stereotype of the tortured artist is … Continue reading The Tortured Artist Trope
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. The English art critic Walter Pater once said, “all art constantly aspires to the condition of music”. Pater believed that music, unlike all other art forms, is superior in that there is no … Continue reading Sound and Vision: The Relationship Between Music and Visual Art
Published in Print December 2021 Art by Eve Smith ‘A tear, like a blob of mercury, can’t be pinned down. So why should I try to understand people who cry in front of paintings? […] For a simple reason: tears … Continue reading Why Does Art Make Us Cry? Inspired by James Elkins’ Pictures & Tears, we ask Trinity students what art has made them cry, and why.
Published in print December 2021 Art by Meghan Flood. ‘All art is propaganda’ — in many cases, these words by George Orwell are intuitively true. While the colourful, striking propaganda poster of the twentieth century is largely a dead medium, much … Continue reading Art as Propaganda
Originally published in print, September 2021. Adrian Tomine is an American cartoonist and frequent illustrator of The New Yorker. Tomine’s clean lines, striking colours and comic book style have resulted in him producing countless memorable and recognisable magazine covers … Continue reading The New Yorker – Adrian Tomine
Originally published in print, September 2021. Artificial intelligence has firmly asserted itself as one of the most influential technological developments in recent decades- an influence that is beginning to make waves in the art industry, and may soon change … Continue reading The Budding Relationship Between AI and Art
Originally published in print in September 2021. After a lengthy string of lockdowns, Dublin is beginning to open up – and so is its vibrant art scene! If you, like us here at TN2, enjoy spending hours on end … Continue reading The Ultimate Dublin Gallery Crawl
Originally published in print March 2020. 10:04 begins with moneytalk. Ben Lerner – the autofictional Ben Lerner – discusses with his agent the “six figure deal” she has negotiated for him on the strength of his debut novel and a … Continue reading Is 10:04 Art Writing? What Is Art Writing?