The winter selling season for Irish art continues apace next week with major sales by Morgan O’Driscoll at the RHA Gallery in Dublin next Monday at 6pm and by James Adam on Wednesday at 6pm.

Des O’Sullivan looks at 20th century Irish art at de Vere’s auction.

What might amount to a resurgence of the Irish art market could emerge next week. Advance interest in Morgan O’Driscoll’s Irish and International art auction at the RDS next Monday at 6 pm is heavy. 

The role played by women in the history of Irish art is the focus of the summer loan exhibition at James Adam.

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

OVER the past 70 years a serious body of art has been amassed by the Butler Gallery at Kilkenny Castle.

THOSE in need of a fix at this fallow time of year for auctions can always head west.

A man and woman could hold vital clues to the theft from a church of six valuable paintings depicting scenes from the Stations of the Cross.

Even at this time of great difficulty most Greeks will, rightly, react with vehemence when the Parthenon Marbles are mentioned.

Crimestoppers has issued an appeal for information about the theft of paintings from a church in Co Galway.

‘Analysing Cubism’ is a major exhibition of Irish Cubist painting at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

THE art collection of the man who first recorded Rory Gallagher and Van Morrison forms the backbone of Whyte’s sale of Irish and British art at the RDS next Monday at 6pm.

MUSIC NEWS: David Bowie (inset) caused quite a stir with his recent release of a single on his 66th birthday, and over the next few weeks we’ll get a proper chance to see if the Brixton boy still has some talent, or whether he should just make the most of his free travel pass.

Dolan’s catalogue lists 228 works from wide range of artists, writes Des O’Sullivan

WITH the Irish Open going back to its roots at Portmarnock next year it could be a propitious time for a property which has been quietly on the market since last summer.