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At National Gallery, an Effort to Bring Visual Art to the Blind
There’s a growing interest in exploring creative ways to make galleries more accessible. The National Gallery, for example, offers touchable guides to an increasing number of its paintings.
Curios About: Dirty Look at the Dáil Day by Ciara Scanlan
In 2011, artist Ciara Scanlan organised Dirty Look at the Dáil Day. Perhaps it’s time to get together and give the government a dirty look again, she suggests. Click through for an instructional video.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: What to Do This Week
Our pick of the week’s events in Dublin. One per day. To help you make the most of your fun time.
Purity by Jonathan Franzen, Reviewed
If there was a genetic difference between Europeans and Americans, we could certainly cry racist, as “Purity” contains all the signifiers of a master-race narrative.
Curios About: As Twilight Fades by Aaron Smyth
In the series to which this image belongs, contemporary artist Aaron Smyth explores questions around gender, intimacy, and relations. What you see is just a detail: click through to see the whole image.
Book Extract from “Bare: Irish Women’s Sexual Fantasies”
This book has been presented as empowering, groundbreaking, liberating. To us it just reads like porn, though perhaps there’s nothing wrong with that.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: What to Do This Week
Our pick of the week’s events in Dublin. One per day. To help you make the most of your fun time.
Curios About: Phoenix Park Palare by Conor O’Grady
In the three gritty images of this triptych, artist Conor O’Grady says he is seeking to document a certain type of alienation. Click through to see.
On Kildare Street, Literature and Visual Arts Make Babies
What happens when artists of different mediums seek inspiration in each others’ works? A new exhibition explores exactly that.
Zoë’s Dublin Diary: What to Do This Week
Our pick of the week’s events in Dublin. One per day. To help you make the most of your fun time.
A Play Unpacks the Many Sides of Oscar Wilde’s Lovers
Brian Merriman’s “Wretched Little Brat” tells Wilde’s story through the people around him, and looks at the roots of stereotypes of gay men.
Curios About: The Art Critic by James Devlin
“A critic often furrows his brow and squints his eyes for ages over something the artist plays with,” writes Devlin. Click through to see the full image.