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# art - Yesterday’s News

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Read: Kidnappings and lost cousins – amazing real-life transport stories

13 hours ago 4,232 Views 5 Comments

From mistaken identities to mysterious mittens – artist Theresa Nanigian collected these incredible, touching tales from drivers and passengers.

# art - Saturday 12 May, 2012

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Week In Photos

The week in photos: Abandon

12/05/12 2,696 Views 2 Comments

This is the week that was, in photos…

# art - Friday 11 May, 2012

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Happy birthday Salvador Dalí!

11/05/12 3,292 Views 11 Comments

The master of Surrealism was born on this day in 1904. Check out these weird, wacky and wonderful creations…

# art - Thursday 10 May, 2012

Expensive Bacon

Bacon painting sells for $45 million at Sotheby’s

10/05/12 2,472 Views 12 Comments

The painting of the male nude by the Dublin-born artist had been expected to sell for between $30 million and $40 million.

# art - Monday 7 May, 2012

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Meet the only man in Ireland who loves getting scam emails

07/05/12 8,329 Views 14 Comments

Illustrator Alan Dunne asks his friends to send him on their funniest spam scam emails – so that he can make wry and funny works of art from their stories.

# art - Sunday 6 May, 2012

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Older people with tattoos? INK to make you think…

06/05/12 10,489 Views 39 Comments

Projects challenges assumptions about body art and older people as part of Bealtaine creativity and ageing festival.

# art - Thursday 3 May, 2012

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Irish Film

President Higgins celebrates Irish film in New York

03/05/12 2,456 Views 12 Comments

Michael D attended a screening of Oscar-winning Irish short The Shore – and gave his views on Irish film.

Pic Of The Day

Puzzling Picture of the Day

03/05/12 6,094 Views 33 Comments

Anyone know what’s up with Molly today?

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The Scream sets auction record with $119m sale

03/05/12 2,827 Views 28 Comments

The pastel work was one of four Munch created of the image and was sold in its original frame.

# art - Monday 30 April, 2012

Titanic

Titanic 3D “had no permission” to use Picasso painting

30/04/12 8,611 Views 21 Comments

The inclusion of a Picasso image in the Titanic 3D re-release has angered the Picasso estate, which says James Cameron had no permission to include it.

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You wanted a book of John Hinde postcards? You got it.

30/04/12 6,241 Views 19 Comments

Photographic arm of classic postcard company has made its way back out of examinership – and has produced a collectors’ book… on the suggestion of TheJournal.ie readers.

# art - Saturday 28 April, 2012

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Good News

Six Irish artists get high-profile NYC showcase

28/04/12 3,025 Views 7 Comments

The contemporary artists take part in an exhibition at the American Irish Historical Society next month. You can see the work of one of them in Dublin this month.

# art - Thursday 26 April, 2012

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The Persuaders

The 10 celebs championing ‘Ireland’s Favourite Paintings’

26/04/12 4,192 Views 8 Comments

RTÉ reveals the rest of the list arguing the case for each of the top ten… what do you think of it?

# art - Saturday 21 April, 2012

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Occupy Wall Street plans protest at art fair

21/04/12 1,308 Views 4 Comments

Internationally acclaimed Frieze Art Fair to be next target for Occupy movement.

# art - Sunday 15 April, 2012

Masterpiece

What is Ireland’s favourite painting?

15/04/12 8,379 Views 30 Comments

RTÉ’s latest reality contest hopes to increase awareness of Ireland’s rich public art collection.

# art - Sunday 8 April, 2012

Easter

9 examples of incredible Easter eggs

08/04/12 5,637 Views 2 Comments

From large chocolate eggs to hand-painted works of art, our slideshow features some of the most incredible Easter eggs you’re likely to see this year. How did your Easter treats measure up?

# art - Tuesday 3 April, 2012

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In photos: Damien Hirst’s exhibition at the Tate Modern

03/04/12 665 Views 1 Comment

Skull fans rejoice. There are skulls.

# art - Sunday 1 April, 2012

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Train station mosaics in Bray being pieced together (ahem)

01/04/12 6,388 Views 6 Comments

New tile mosaics show the Co Wicklow train station through the ages.

# art - Saturday 31 March, 2012

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Obama revamps the White House art collection

31/03/12 3,447 Views 7 Comments

Modern art – some love it and some hate it, but President Obama is a fan.

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Week In Photos

The week in photos: Loud

31/03/12 2,413 Views No Comments

This is the week that was, in photos…

# art - Friday 30 March, 2012

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NAMA

‘Very drab’: Artworks stripped from abandoned Anglo HQ

30/03/12 5,218 Views 24 Comments

Paintings pasted up in a guerrilla exhibition by the Romantic Ireland group have been removed from the derelict site.

# art - Thursday 29 March, 2012

Russian Work Ethic

Russian museum director works on… aged 90

29/03/12 2,390 Views 2 Comments

Age is just a number to iconic woman in the Russian art world.

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Adrienne Rich dies aged 82

29/03/12 3,430 Views 10 Comments

An American poet,who declined the honour of receiving the National Medal for the Arts, is remembered.

# art - Monday 26 March, 2012

Posh Graffiti This post contains images

17 Banksy works up for auction

26/03/12 4,659 Views 5 Comments

Anonymous artist to sell best-known work in London this week, including Moss as Marilyn.

# art - Sunday 25 March, 2012

Sitdown Sunday

Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

25/03/12 5,091 Views No Comments

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web…

# art - Saturday 24 March, 2012

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Read Me

Column: Here’s why we turn empty properties into art spaces

24/03/12 2,557 Views 4 Comments

“Raise the shutters on a vacant unit, and life returns to an area”: Arts initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin on bringing energy through art back to abandoned buildings.

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Week In Photos

The week in photos: Celebrate

24/03/12 2,549 Views 1 Comment

This is the week that was, in photos…

# art - Friday 23 March, 2012

New Discovery This post contains images

New Van Gogh painting discovered in Dutch museum

23/03/12 4,851 Views 12 Comments

X-ray of still life finds sketch of two wrestling men underneath.

# art - Wednesday 21 March, 2012

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Twitter trend of the Day: #1000dayswithoutMichaelJackson

21/03/12 2,191 Views 4 Comments

Hot. Right. Now.

# art - Tuesday 20 March, 2012

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Biopic

The Wire star to take up Nelson Mandela role in May

20/03/12 2,560 Views 16 Comments

British actor Idris Elba – best known as Stringer Bell in HBO TV series – is to star in Long Walk to Freedom.

# art - Saturday 17 March, 2012

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Artists take over abandoned Anglo HQ in Dublin city centre

17/03/12 9,949 Views 22 Comments

The twenty-eight artists who have put up artworks on the shell of Anglo’s unbuilt HQ say they want to kickstart a conversation about NAMA buildings.

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Week In Photos

The week in photos: Shiver

17/03/12 2,042 Views No Comments

This is the week that was, in photos…

# art - Friday 16 March, 2012

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Germany

Nazi-seized art ordered returned to American man

16/03/12 3,012 Views 9 Comments

A German court has ruled a Berlin museum must return rare posters seized by the Gestapo during WWII to the victim’s relative – saying that keeping them would be a perpetuation of the crimes of the Nazis.

# art - Thursday 15 March, 2012

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Prettyvacant This post contains images

Ghost estates brought to book in post-Tiger exhibition

15/03/12 3,957 Views 5 Comments

Art initiative PrettyvacanT Dublin is repurposing empty spaces for cultural purposes – its latest show responds to “post-Crash Ireland”.

# art - Saturday 10 March, 2012

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The week in photos: Splash

10/03/12 2,236 Views No Comments

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# art - Saturday 3 March, 2012

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Week In Photos

The week in photos: Pop

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This is the week that was, in photos…

# art - Wednesday 29 February, 2012

Art

Woman banned from slaughtering chickens as part of art installation

29/02/12 448 Views 3 Comments

Kansas artist Amber Hansen wanted to publicly slaughter the birds to demonstrate the process to meat eaters and challenge “the contemporary view of chickens as merely ‘livestock’”.

# art - Sunday 26 February, 2012

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Cold play: Musicians make ice instruments

26/02/12 2,044 Views 1 Comment

Norwegian composer Terje Isungset demonstrates the power of ice…

# art - Saturday 25 February, 2012

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GUERNICA

Picasso painting undergoes medical check

25/02/12 3,432 Views 2 Comments

Picasso’s “Guernica” – one of the world’s most iconic paintings – is getting a full health check as it marks its 75th anniversary.

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The week in photos: Stretch

25/02/12 2,145 Views No Comments

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