At least 70 people, including children and entire families, have been reported missing following the Grenfell Tower fire.

Latest: Rania Ibrahim and her two daughters, Fathia, five, and Hania, three, have not been seen since the fire.

Every two years, the art world descends on Venice in a flurry of who’s who, cocktail parties, and great outfits, says Michelle Darmody.

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Here's your morning news bulletin.

Feminism and the female body are hot topics in Irish arts at the moment, as reflected by Jesse Jones and her entry for the Venice Biennale, writes Colette Sheridan

RISING MEMORABILIA

One of the visual highlights of Kinsale Arts Festival is an exhibition by celebrated Dublin artist, Kathy Prendergast, who pushes the boundaries between traditional and contemporary art.

The most prestigious award in world architecture, the RIBA Gold Medal, has been awarded to husband and wife team, O’Donnell Tuomey.

Here's your quick guide to five things that will keep you entertained this week.

Patrick Scott had a roundabout journey to the Biennale in 1960, writes Marc O’Sullivan

Cork-born Patrick Scott, who died yesterday aged 93, enjoyed a long and illustrious career as one of Ireland’s best-loved visual artists.

The veteran West Cork-born artist Patrick Scott is the subject of a major retrospective in Dublin and Carlow, Tina Darb O’Sullivan reports

MUSIC NEWS: Elbow’s gigs in Ireland could be among the highlights of the summer, and Hot Press reports that the band also have a new album almost ready to go.

AN 1829 watercolour by Daniel Maclise RA, (1806-1870), of a young girl at play comes up at Morgan O’Driscoll’s sale at the Clyde Court Hotel in Dublin next Monday evening.

FIRST there were artists. Then there were patrons — rich people with enough good taste that they enabled artists to live and make their art.

Richard Mosse’s installation at the Venice Biennale features his grim photographs of the Congo, writes Peter Murray

Louis le Brocquy, who died yesterday aged 95, was so venerated a figure in the Irish arts world that it is often forgotten how controversial a figure he had sometimes been.

Seven Days in the Art World

HARCOURT Developments and Heritage Properties were among the winners of the Allianz Business2Arts awards, which were presented in Dublin last night by President Mary McAleese.

FORGET Brendan Behan’s and Dublin’s ballad about the Auld Triangle and the banks of the Royal Canal.

THE WALLPAPER House in Woods Place, Cork, was the first domestic commission for architect Tomás de Paor, who has just scooped the Architect of the Year Award in the UK.