Friday, May 31, 2013

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Come to CCA Derry, where volume-weighted average pricing and other commonplaces of algorithmic trading enter the art world.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

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Paintings in conversation: a new multi-venue exhibition, The Act of Portrayal, encourages Limerick artists to respond to the National Self-Portrait Collection at UL.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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Fermentation guru, Sandor Katz on teaching the world to stop worrying and love the microbe.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

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Ron Mueck can take a year to make a single one of his mammoth sculptures, so when a half dozen appear at once, it can’t help being a giant event. Luke Clancy reviews the Australian artist’s new Paris show.

Monday, May 27, 2013

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From Alzheimer’s to apricots, the sparks for storytelling can come from anywhere in the writings of Rebecca Solnit.

Friday, May 24, 2013

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Barrister-turned-playwright, Rachel Fehily, on her new knotty legal teaser, Under Pressure.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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The specialities of Dublin’s chicest 1970s restaurant, The Mirabeau? Cabbage and baked potato. Ex-waiter, Dr Frank Cullen, remembers Sean Kinsella and his cooking.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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This time we meet one of the bards of yore, from the magical times when instead of interpretive centres, we had Bunratty Castle.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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Mateo Alessi on good and bad design and who gives the final verdict : eBay.

Monday, May 20, 2013

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One thing worse than working as an actor? Not working as an actor. In his latest diary, playwright Phillip McMahon remembers why he’s not an actor. Anymore.

Friday, May 17, 2013

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A brace of lost songs by 19th century composer, Horatia Fielding, get an airing at Howth Castle.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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Can Regan come out to play? Culture File deals with the swings and roundabouts with help from DanceXchange, a troupe who are performing in the playground of Dublin for DDF 2013.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Cookbook writer and recipe collector supreme, Claudia Roden, on a life in search of food culture.

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A pyrex tea cup containing nothing less than the entire universe, is among the objects sculptor Maud Cotter has brought along as Dublin’s Rubicon Gallery takes temporary residence in Brussels.

Monday, May 13, 2013

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When are choreographers like fleas? When they’re thinking about the future of management, of course. Fearghus Ó Conchúir on his notion of fleadership in dance.

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Tales of Herb, Lenny, Vov… and Ted, as Joy Bryer remembers the EUYO’s great conductors. (Part 2 of 2)

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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To celebrate Europe Day, Luke Clancy shares a toast with Joy Bryer, the storied founder and President of the European Union Youth Orchestra. (Part 1 of 2)

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

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Tom Spalding, author of a new study of the street signs of Cork, leads us down those pleasant streets, pointing upwards regularly at the layers of typographical history.

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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A little lighthouse keeping? Gerald Butler, author of the memoir, The Lightkeeper, takes us up the 52 steps well-worn steps of his station at Galley Head.

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Ulster-raised, Brooklyn-based book artist, Oliver Jeffers, on skipdiving for paintings and other secrets of his art.

Friday, May 3, 2013

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Not your grandmother’s high tea! We meet the “Dada Gastronomes” behind food art group, The Domestic Godless.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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The king of slow music, Morton Feldman, as interpreted by Pianist, Ivan Ilic.