Denis Connolly Anne Cleary: Plus/ minus, 2006, installation shot, interactive video installation
Issue 130 Winter 2009 For a full list of contents, click here.

Editor's blog

"Today, Western imperialism is the imperialism of relativism, of the 'it all depends on your point of view'; it's the eye-rolling or the wounded indignation at anyone who's stupid, primitive or presumptuous enough to still believe in something, to affirm anything at all."

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Gemma Tipton's blog
Killing the love (Tuesday 8 December 2009)

As statements go, I think "Capitalism Kills Love" is rather a nice one, if a little intellectually slight. I certainly wouldn't go so far as to take it that seriously - after all, both Capitalism and Love are tough old birds, and both will fortunately / unfortunately (depending o...more

Hilary Murray's blog
A lively start to the year (Thursday 28 January 2010)

There appears to be a dichotomy in the Dublin art scene. Mark Garry's Another place at Kerlin, and Gallery 126's Video killed the radio star, shown alongside Nevan Lahart's A lively start to a dead end at the RHA all serve to demonstrate this divide. It...more

David Brancaleone's blog
Godard and revolution, now: Socialisme (2010) and then: La Chinoise (1967)

Go to Youtube and you'll find an intriguing four-minute trailer of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film just about to be released: Socialisme. It's exciting and at the same time it resists any easy putdown: there's just enough to see the close relation with all the video essays...more


Selection of art events
OPENING / OCCURRING THIS WEEK

Ciaran Murphy, Nepalese Shamanism, Public Tour of Exhibitions: ‘Ciaran Murphy' and 'Nepalese Shamanism'

Eithne Jordan, Night in a City

Gerard Byrne, Brian Duggan, Clodagh Emoe, Martin Healy, Mark Joyce, Isabel Nolan , Paul Nugent , Invisible, Curated by Oliver Dowling, John Graham & Oliver Dowling

Morris/Trasov Archive, Sam Keogh, Takeshi Murata, Ulf Rolloff & Ciaran Walsh, Aion Experiments

Tom Fitzgerald, Alex Rose, Harry Moore, Billy Quinn, Kieran Moore, John Kelly, Dan Murphy, Max LeCain, Chris Hurley, Marianne Keating, Dominic Fee, Ai, Bittersweet -Expressions of Love and Hate

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