Irish Art at the Venice Biennale: Richard Mosse and Ella de Burca
“At the moment I am standing beside the canal, and a little boat just went by – a very posh yacht, and there was a woman drinking from a silver
Deep In The Game: Oireachtas Retort interview
Oireachtas Retort talks filling in the gaps, the futility of the Dàil and Enda Kenny as abortion promoter as Karl McDonald continues Deep In The Game
A Hand-Drawn Dublin Diary: Week 2
We've got a very talented French illustrator spending the summer with us. Rather than have her scribbling portraits of Wavves for an article you're not even going to read, we've…
Gleaming The Cube: Skating as sport or culture, and when it’s time to retire
High-profile footballers are retiring because they can't cut it - but is that the reason skaters hang up the shoes? Or should it be?
Interview: Sunil Sharpe
Sunil Sharpe has been a vital part of the Irish techno scene for well over a decade. As a producer and DJ he has long been in demand all over
Interview: Boddika
Starting off in 2000 as one half of Instra:Mental, Alex Green threw drum & bass and electro together and had everyone dancing to whatever the hell came out. Green has
Dublin Choreography: The rise of the Irish dance artist
“If you say you’re a dancer to a punter on the street, they’ll give you an eyebrow.” This statement comes from Jessica Kennedy, one half of the identical twin duo
Something In The Air
liberal eclecticism which, counter to the film's tepid suggestion, 1970s revolutionary movements failed as a (partial) result, rather than in spite, of.
The Hangover Part III
Alan, once an unpredictable, hilarious misfit, is now pathologised as a dangerous lunatic in need of rehabilitation
Interview: David Szauder
Focussing on the architecture of randomly-generated forms, Szauder works on finding humanity in the generative abstract, materiality in code. Here he talks about work emerging from the screen into substantiality.
Interview: GLITCH Festival Curator Nora O’Murchú
This year’s edition of the Glitch Festival, an Eldorado of digital and new media art, digs deep into artists encounters into digital technology. Titled Run, Computer Run, the program, diverse
The Great Gatsby
How are we to take a death seriously when it looks like something out of a cabaret?
Interview with A Hijacking’s Tobias Lindholm
Waiting for Tobias Lindholm to appear for our interview in The Merrion Hotel, one can’t help but overhear his handlers furiously planning the day’s schedule. He’s in town for a
Entry Level: Ludwig Wittgenstein
A primer on the life of Ludwig Wittgenstein from an Irish perspective ahead of a month-long celebration of his work at the Mermaid Arts Centre Bray.
A Hand-Drawn Dublin Diary: Week 1
We’ve got a very talented French illustrator spending the summer with us. Rather than have her scribbling portraits of Wavves for an article you’re not even going to read, we’ve
Interview: Evan Roth
Draw a triangle with the co-ordinates hacktivism, interactive art and gif mashups, and the zone created is where Evan Roth calls home. Having recently coloured Dublin's streets with the Science…
Deep In The Game: Not The RTE Guide
@yourRTEGuide is a world leader in making pithy remarks about real or imaginary Irish TV as if it were the actual RTE Guide. We talk to founder Alan Maguire