Top artists have donated to Leeside’s first €50 anonymous sale for the Jack and Jill Foundation, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Turning on the style in the bedroom, bathroom and beyond, Esther N McCarthy suggests ways of making everything mellow yellow in your home this spring.

Art patrons can avail of great tax incentives, say McAvoy & Associates chartered accountants and the Lavit Gallery, neighbours on Wandesford Quay, Cork.

Esther N McCarthy plumps for luxurious mohair and lifelike art work in this week’s interior picks.

MUSIC NEWS: Didn’t make it to one of the 22 London shows? At least Kate Bush is releasing the resultant live album on November 22. 

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A round-up of all the best entertainment news

A round-up of all the best entertainment news

FILM TIPS: The revamped version of The Jungle Book is the big draw at cinemas this weekend, and both trailer and early reviews suggest it’s well worth seeing.

MUSIC NEWS: Though there were all sorts of stories about Michael Jackson’s perilous finances through the years, the late prince of pop did listen to some of the right advice when he managed to amass the rights to songs by an impressive roster of artists. 

The promotion of local maritime activity as part of the Ocean to City: Cork Harbour Festival (May 30-June 6) is heartening, with one event especially catching The Menu’s attention, Boats & Bites: Boating & Seafood Tasters (June 3, 6pm-8.30pm). 

 

MUSIC NEWS: Reginald D Hunter’s series, Songs of the South, is essential viewing for music fans tomorrow night (BBC Two, 9pm), and this second episode is all the more attractive because it is followed by a new documentary on James Brown. 

Hibernian Antique Fairs are in Birr, Co Offaly from 11 am to 6 pm tomorrow. 

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Go back in time with these gloriously colourful retro clocks, 40cm each and €35 from Harvey Norman. www.harverynorman.ie

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.

A PASSIONATE engagement with the subject matter is evident in the first ever survey of the graphic work of the late and much liked artist, William Crozier (1930-2011), which runs at the Lavit Gallery in Cork from Jul 3-24.

A Luftwaffe badge with a handwritten date of ‘20-5-42’ is for sale at Kerry Auction Rooms next Tuesday.

This copy of the ninth printing of the first edition of Joyce’s Ulysses published by Shakespeare & Co, Paris, 1927, is among the lots at Cork Auction Rooms tomorrow at noon.