All you need to know on theatre, TV, music and art this week.

The biennial festival in Cork produced another unique feast of fine music and good vibes.

The third incarnation of the Sounds From A Safe Harbour festival kicked off in Cork last night, with the city set for six days of music and performances organised by a star-studded panel of curators.

The relic of a human heart is to be part of a floating art installation honouring migrant peoples in Cork.

A human heart found deep within a city centre crypt in the 19th century is to be returned to Cork next month as "sacred cargo".

A teenager who already has her sporting skills down to a fine art is this year's overall winner of the 65th Texaco Children's Art Competition.

Des O'Driscoll shares the latest news from the entertainment world.

Two major art exhibitions that commemorate the Famine have gone on display in Skibbereen, West Cork.

Francis Bacon is among the artists featuring in a major new exhibition of an eclectic range of nudes at Crawford in Cork, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Des O’Sullivan looks forward to some of the exhibitions that are due to open in the coming weeks.

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

A teenager’s detailed portrait of her brother, carefully executed with colouring pencils and white gel pen, has taken the top prize at this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

From the Virgin Mary to females in film and fairytales, author Marina Warner believes perceptions of women are improving, writes Marjorie Brennan

We could be looking at the next Jack Yeats, Francis Bacon, or Robert Ballagh if the quality of this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Compeition was anything to go by.

An iconic Roy Keane photo is just one of 100 pieces assembled by Dorothy Cross from various collections for a major exhibition at IMMA, writes Alan O’Riordan

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Doneraile delights

IT STRUCK a sensitive nerve when the poet WJ Mc Cormack, aka Hugh Maxton, this week defended Aosdána’s annual funding of €2.7 million by mentioning that Fair City cost €11 million. This fact was met, according to an RTÉ report, with laughter from the floor of Aosdána’s general assembly meeting at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

Live music: FUAIM Opening Gala

Dorothy Cross explores her childhood in Cork in her two new art books, writes Tina O’Sullivan

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

RARELY more than random scribblings, doodles are the product of your subconscious filling the margins of a phone book or sprawling all over a piece of scrap paper.

NOTHING stands still: not time, not the ground we stand on, and certainly not a city.

TIPP is tops for art — and that’s official, at least when it comes to our youngest, emerging artists.

A TEENAGER yesterday took the top prize in this year’s Texaco Children’s Art Competition for his brutally honest composition of five self-portraits.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese unveiled four new postage stamps yesterday which celebrated the vibrancy of young Irish artistic talent.

President Mary McAleese unveiled four new postage stamps today which celebrated the vibrancy of young Irish artistic talent.

YOKO ONO and U2’s The Edge team up in Dublin this week for what promises to be one of the biggest art events of the year.