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Brushing Up: A statue of Biddy Mulligan decaying along with the Iveagh Markets
“The worse that she gets, the more it exposes what’s going on inside,” says the sculptor.
At the Chester Beatty, swatches of fabric in centuries-old books help reveal Ethiopia’s place in global trade networks
Researchers studying fabrics in Ethiopian books from the 1400s to the 1900s found they had come from as far west as England and as far east as China.
“Never Kill a Femboy on the First Date” set to premiere in Smithfield
It’s a tense and chaotic 17-minute erotic thriller about a Gaelic football player hooking up with a crossdresser in a dark, secluded car park.
From ambient electronic music to 70s and 80s Japanese pop, DJ Emmy Shigeta brings the sound of Tokyo to Smithfield
It’s music you’d be unlikely to hear anywhere else in the city, says musician Robbie Stickland, who often goes to her six-hour weekly slot at Fidelity on Queen Street.
On Arran Street East, two artists use bronze-cast bananas and worm hotels to dissect local history
Their exhibition, Banana Accelerationism, is on at The Complex, off Capel Street, until 25 January.
In Howth, two artist friends have been egging each other on since childhood
Ami Hope Jackson and Eileen Sealy have work at the College Lane Gallery in Howth, and a group show coming at Draiocht in Blanchardstown.
Councillors opt to ditch idea of museum and keep artists studios on Chatham Row
They’ve also chosen a new favoured operator, but artists already using the building are worried what it will mean for them.
Brushing Up: the kerbstone carvings of Temple Bar
There’s a scraggy Irish wolfhound, a fish and fishing rod, an elephant and a pair of vases. There’s no signature saying who made them.
From audio tours to pop-up nightclubs, an artist teases out the pleasures of the city
“He’s telling you to look at where we live, to look at what is possible,” says artist and photographer Brian Teeling, about Bill Harris’s work.
In Rathmines, an artists’ collective reinterprets a 16th-century Korean woman’s botanical works
Members of Collective Gaji painted takes on artist Shin Saimdang’s works, using their own styles and techniques, for an exhibition now on in the library.
When Your Number’s Up!, reviewed
“Brimming with slapstick comedy and absurd plot, if you’re a fan of Mrs Brown’s Boys, this could be one to stick on your list.”
An artist goes in search of the Jervis Shopping Centre lighthouse
All over the city, there are unexplained features like this one, and Carmen Quigley loves to try to fill in the gaps around what they are, she says.