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.
It’s difficult to discuss what makes art valuable and whether that value is natural or artificial, because there is no broad consensus on what art is, or how we determine what is art and what is not. The physical value … Continue reading Art: Value and Worth But what is it that transforms a hundred euros of supplies into a hundred million euros of art?
●●●●○ If visited in a rush, Beyond the Three Perfections, running in the Coach House of Dublin Castle Gardens until December 8th, seems utterly conventional. Sponsored by the Office of Public Works, featuring President Higgins’ verses and aimed at celebrating … Continue reading Beyond the Three Perfections – review Linking poetry, calligraphy and painting.
●●●○○ The Museum of Modern Comedy in Art (MoMCo), currently located in the Project Arts Centre, describes itself as “either an artwork in the guise of a speculative museum, or a museum dressed up as a contemporary installation.” Presented as … Continue reading Good Punchline, Poor Delivery: Museum of Modern Comedy in Art For a collection that claims to question the ‘surgical’ treatment of modern art, it doesn’t diverge greatly from what you might expect from a typical contemporary art show: high ideas, inaccessible language, and a repetitive video section.
Why did you pick fine art? To be perfectly honest art was one of the few things I actually enjoyed in school. At the same time, I was never the ‘arty kid’ so I didn’t have the pressure of being … Continue reading Five Questions with a Fine Art Student: Grace Collins
Rory Malone is currently in his first year of studying Fine Art in IADT. Why did you choose to study Fine Art? I picked fine art because it is what I am best at besides music. It seemed like … Continue reading 5 Questions with a Fine Art Student: Rory Malone