The problems of ‘outsider art’
By Lucie de Rondeau Noyer Since the label “outsider art” was coined in 1972 by art critic Roger Cardinal, it is generally agreed that such a category is […]
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Crawford Art Gallery, Cork – GALLERY FOCUS
By Stacy Wrenn One of the ways in which the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork has expanded its permanent collection over the past two decades has been by […]
We need a new history – EDITORIAL
By Stacy Wrenn This title may sound like an oxymoron upon first glance, how can you have a newer version of something that’s entire basis is in the past? What […]
The mediating revolutionary
By Ciara Kummert It seems incredibly contradictory that an artist living in the nineteenth and twentieth century would have painted portraits for both the aristocracy while also being […]
The fetishisation of radical politics
By Maia Mathieu You know her unibrow, even if you don’t know her art. Since celebrities like Madonna discovered her art in the early nineties, Frida Kahlo has become a […]
Perfect by design
By Sulla Montes I firmly believe that there will come a time when the old-fashioned pencil sketches on tracing paper will be completely replaced with computer-aided architectural design […]
The Biggest Questions Facing Artists Today
By Mollyrose Lee In an article by The Guardian earlier this month, several artists working across a range of mediums were asked what the biggest issue they faced was, reflecting […]
The future is mud
By Stacy Wrenn The technological advance of steel-frame construction by the Chicago School in the late nineteenth century is arguably the single most revolutionary move in recent architectural history. It […]
Revival as a form of revolution
By Fiona McLoone The giant billboards and moving visual displays we are confronted with on the streets of Dublin are very dependent on both digital printing and vinyl […]
The weapon of a revolution
By David Boyd During the twentieth century, artworks had the ability to mobilise audiences behind political ideologies, and some of the most progressive developments in the use of […]
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