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Volcano Lairs, Gyro-copters and Racism | You Only Live Twice is 50
It’s a little bizarre that in the broader subconscious this film doesn’t register as strongly with the masses as some of the other Bond’s. Normally Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me are the most well-remembered and quintessential flicks…
Strange Bedfellows [11]: When This Is All Over
When This is All Over I'm going to tell about the boy who forced himself on me in New York City. Tell how in a vacant storefront, daylight squashing shadow to surface across Avenue A, he fisted my tongue, twisted my limbs, closed his eyes.…
The Lit Review |81|Man Booker Shortlist
Here, where decades of diggers' tracks fill with murky puddles, here, your phone fails to find a signal. So be sure to check the Lit Review before you go. Events Alicia Byrne Keane, Sian Conway and Ailish Kerr will be performing spoken word…
The Exhibitionist| 31|Magnetism
News A new project initiated by the owners of the Hazelwood estate in Sligo caught my eye this week. This ambitious project uses the 'vast red-brick factory built by an Italian textile firm in 1969' as the scene for large scale artistic…
The Exhibitionist|27|Beit-sized sales & Hell
News This week's news includes the sale of some Irish masterpieces, a guerilla protest at the Tate and a trip to Hell. First up, the Irish arts scene has been protesting this week about the sale of paintings from the Beit collection. The…
The Exhibitionist | 20 | Plane Invasion
News Limerick is the place to be this week, with openings in the City Gallery last week and the School of Art and Design tonight. My pick of the week, Plane Invasion opens this evening at 6pm and showcases the work of over sixty different…
The Exhibitionist | 17 | Scandalous stained glass
News This week we're taking a look at some 'scandalous' stained glass newly acquired by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. An original stained glass artwork by Harry Clarke, which outraged the Irish Government in 1930, will go on public…