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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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.

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

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