Sotheby’s is an important springboard to showcase Irish art like The Disasters of War says Des O’Sullivan.

Former environment minister and deputy party leader Alan Kelly has emerged as the overwhelming favourite to replace Joan Burton, after the Labour leader formally announced her resignation yesterday.

Somewhere in south Dublin yesterday afternoon, a grey-haired retired politician was having a strange feeling of déjà vu.

Joan Burton has announced her resignation as leader of the Labour Party.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

WHEN you speak to Irish artist Colin Davidson, his thoughtfulness is evident. Nothing is throwaway or said for the sake of filling space. Davidson is a thinker, a philosopher of sorts. 

Mick O’Dea is steeped in the traditions and lore of the turbulent period around Easter 1916, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

 

One of Ireland’s celebrated living painters is hosting an inaugural exhibition for his adopted home in east Cork.

Two early works, unseen since the 1940’s, were acquired directly from the artist, Des O’Sullivan reports.

Mick O’Dea’s new exhibition at Triskel is a preamble to his major show of the 1916-23 period, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Jacqueline Stanley tells Alan O’Riordan about the legacy of her late husband Campbell Bruce, former professor of fine arts at NCAD

Triskel Christchurch is preparing for a temporary takeover of its visual art offerings by John P Quinlan, the figure behind the establishment of the Vangard Gallery in Macroom in 1991.

Exhibition shows how female artists were often more innovative, writes Colette Sheridan

Live music: FUAIM Opening Gala

Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

ONE of the roles of the artist is to take the mundane and tease out surprising facets of our relationships to it.

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ARTIST Stephen Brandes’ monumental piece, ‘April 22nd — From the Last Travelogue of Albert Sitzfleisch’, dominates the foyer of the Royal Hibernian Academy. His show, part of the RHA’s autumn programme, is satiric, provocative, charming and unsettling.

There was strong interest in the sale of the Anglo Irish Bank art collection with work by some artists going for considerably more than pre-auction estimates.

ANGLO Irish Bank had a talent for investment that went south, and its art collection will almost certainly bring in less than it cost to purchase in the first instance.

THE celebration show now underway at the Lavit Gallery in Cork entitled RHA in the South features paintings and sculptures by invited members from the Royal Hibernian Academy.

THERE is a simplicity to Billy Foley’s new work at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

I am a good drawer and have been since I was a teenager.

FASHION photographer Mike Bunn, one of the judges in the recent Hidden Ireland photography competition, said of the winning entry: “It really stood out, it was just very good technically”.

IRISH researchers have created the world’s first 3D surface anatomy guide for medical and physiotherapy students, surgical trainees and artists.

ÁRAS hopeful Seán Gallagher has said rival candidates David Norris and Mary Davis should come clean on questions surrounding their campaigns — but insisted he would not resort to mud-slinging.

Independent Presidential hopeful Sean Gallagher officially launched his campaign today at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

The abuse of thousands of innocent children in State and church run institutions in Ireland amounted to torture, a scathing report from Amnesty has found.

Gordon Ledbetter

SUNSHINE may follow rain, but it has taken eight long weeks before the director of Cork’s Lewis Glucksman Gallery saw anything to be sunny about.

THE authorities absurdly suggested during the week that Conor Casby, the artist who painted the controversial portraits of Brian Cowen, was guilty of indecency, incitement to violence and criminal damage.

THE radio producer subjected to garda questioning over the Brian Cowen paintings has branded the Government’s reaction to the incident as “crazy“.

While people may sympathise with someone confronted with an unflattering portrait, it is all part of being in the public eye. The reaction of the authorities to the unflattering portraits of the Taoiseach has therefore been completely over the top.

The artist behind nude paintings of Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen which were hung in two of the country’s top public galleries could face criminal charges, it was revealed today.

WATERFORD hurlers are hoping that their particular form of artistry will see them lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup on Sunday for the first time since 1959.

AND so the torch was passed to, erm, the same generation.

TERRY Wogan and portrait artist Tom Ryan have agreed to accept the Freedom of Limerick.

A Limerick-born artist was today unveiled as a name for the future after winning one of the country's most sought-after art awards.

Budding artists in the frame for one of the country’s most prestigious art prizes will today find out if they have been marked out as a name for the future.

A painting from a highly-acclaimed portrait series by Louis le Brocquy is expected to fetch the highest price at a major sale of post-war Irish art which goes on display today.