What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
The work of the painter seems to exist in contradiction to accepted concepts of “working” in our contemporary culture, writes artist Eoin Francis McCormack.
Here’s the latest in our series on works by contemporary Dublin artists. If you’d like to see something of yours featured, you can submit it for consideration, at dublininquirer.com/curios-about.
Start the week with music from scrap noise subaquatic drift merchants Luxury Mollusc, catch Homebeat’s launch of Ciaran Lavery’s new album, see Savitsky’s classic film “Andrei Rublev”, and more. Our suggestions for what to do this week.
Applications are open for a project to decorate, with themed art, the paving stones that run from town through the Liberties.
Chosen as this year’s One City, One Book selection for both Dublin and Belfast, this novel follows everywoman Katie and her everyman twin brother Liam through the Rising.
Go meet Dublin game developers, croon along to Irish murder ballads, or chow down on Mexican food and beer for Cinco de Mayo. Our picks for the coming week.
With the Wander Dublin app, artist Sarah Hyland Pierce hopes “to remove the user from the repetitiveness of everyday life by creating an unplanned journey”.
A recent event at the IFI looked at the gender imbalance in the Irish film industry, something the Irish Film Board says it will work hard to address over the next three years.
Sarah Bracken’s Letterbox Dublin street-art project gives residents and visitors a chance to scribble and share confessions.
This is more a portrait of a murder victim than a mystery in the conventional sense, which is likely to divide readers.
Not to miss this week: the roving guitarist Ryley Walker at Whelan’s, multimedia comic-bard Hugh Cooney at the Shaw, a tribute to DJ Rashad at Wigwam, and much more.
The museum has announced a €60,000 fund this year for bursaries, exhibitions, and acquisitions. It hopes to more than quadruple that by 2018.