Concerns have been raised about the listing of some of Cork’s newest student apartments on Airbnb.

As the painting by Sean Keating is released as a stamp, Ellie O’Byrne tells the incredible tale behind the classic image from the War of Independence

As the Zurich Portrait Prize comes to Cork for the first time, Ellie O’Byrne hears how our definition of the genre has expanded in the modern age

Four graduates tell Siobhan Howe how their fine art degree has influenced their approach to their working life.

Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan TD announced the funding on a visit to the gallery today.

Daphne Wright’s major new exhibition at the Crawford addresses such subjects as ageing and consumerism, writes Colette Sheridan

For the cheapest available room, a standard en suite, students would be shelling out €228 per week or €3,876 for a 17-week term starting in January 2020.

EN ROUTE between shows in London and New York, a 25 year retrospective of Cork-born London-based photographer David Magee opens at the Lavit Gallery next Thursday.

Orla O'Byrne is excited about embarking on a new career in art, having always maintained her interest in it while working as a baker and running her three cafés in Cork since founding the Natural Foods Bakery in 2002.

The everyday homes and utensils of our Viking ancestors have been brought to life as archaeological artefacts from Cork’s early medieval city go on public display.

As the new director of the Cork gallery, Mary McCarthy will oversee a €22m extension, and also hopes to rejuvenate public interest in the city-centre facility, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

The Menu and his progeny have been burning the midnight oil in a flurry of green-tinged preparations for Lá Féile Pádraig and while the dye may have already run from his emerald-green undershorts, his smorgasbord of fine Irish foodstuffs to serve on the day should prove infinitely more rewarding.

 

Orla Barry’s farming background has found its way into her current exhibition at the Crawford, writes Colette Sheridan

Aileen Lee meets Audrey Lehane, Jewellery Designer/owner of Azure Jewellery in Cork

Crawford graduate Stephen Doyle visited Russia to create portraits of gay people living under that country’s oppressive sexuality laws, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Artist Siobhain Steele shows her mettle with ceramics, says Aileen Lee.

The former head of Beamish and Crawford has become the latest person to voice public fears about the future of the stalled €53m Cork event centre project on the former brewery site.

An exhibition at the Crawford showcases Cork’s place in the Arts and Crafts movement, writes Colette Sheridan

Calls are mounting for a public statement from the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre, amid renewed reassurances that the project is still on track.

The Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has become the first public gallery in Ireland to acquire work by Bob Carlos Clarke, the renowned photographer from Kinsale who took his own life in 2006.

Commercial opportunities are radiating outward from Cork’s centre.

A new education/arts use is being pencilled in for a high profile Cork city centre building by the proposed events centre/Brewery Quarter, which is being sold for well over €1 million.

Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

THERE are moments, just passing ones, but moments of real promise, at this time of the year when the hard, cobalt blue of the cold winter sky is softened by strands of viridian light, an energising, germinating light that promises that spring is coming on the next train; that the circle is indeed unbroken.

A large retail unit in the heart of Cork city’s North Main Street, with a distinctive cut limestone front facade has come up to let.

A Dublin 8 retail investment let to Tesco Express is on offer at a c 7% net initial yield. Michelle McGarry of Colliers International seeks offers around €1.6 million for the ground floor investment at 51/52 Thomas Street, Dublin 8, close to the Meath Street junction near NCAD and St James Hospital.

Today we are so technologically-minded we can hardly remember a world where everything was not accessible at the click of a mouse, where a desired item was not instantly purchasable online, but took days,weeks, months to create.

Still buoyed by World Cup success, hundreds of Germans are expected to descend on Cork to join an estimated 10,000 visitors for the Oktoberfest Beag.

‘Make’, a symposium on ‘making’ in art, technology and science, is at the CIT Cork School of Music on March 7.

A key landowner in Cork’s sprawling south docklands has backed O’Callaghan Properties’ €50m Albert Quay events centre project.

Several influential business owners have backed one of two rival developers who are bidding for €16m in public funding to help build a conference centre in Cork.

THE work of 50 artists who have intellectual disabilities will be exhibited at three venues in Cork City this week. Entitled Outside In: The Art of Inclusion, the exhibition is about inclusivity and is the result of a partnership between the Crawford Art Gallery, CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, Mayfield Arts Centre and Cork City Council.

Maud Cotter is one of Ireland’s most accomplished artists.

A new exhibition in Cork showcases artists from Berlin, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan

Return from the Horse Latitudes is a solo exhibition by sculptor, Don Cronin, in Triskel Christchurch, Cork.

Tina O’Sullivan previews a series of exhibitions in the Crawford and other venues to mark 60 years of the Arts Council

Cork City Council is to re-examine the possibility of investing public money in an events centre.

They look lovely and last so long — well looked after dairy show cows come up shining year after year, with top winners from 2010 taking the red rosettes again last Sunday at Tullamore Show.

Roderic O’Conor Red Rocks Near Pont Aven 1898 from the AIB Collection, now in the legal ownership of the State and on show at the Crawford Gallery in Cork.

Some of the most valuable paintings in state-owned AIB’s vast corporate art collection were unveiled to the public at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery yesterday.