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Assassin’s Creed II | Rebuilding the Renaissance
A bird flies overhead. You listen intently to the clattering sound of your footsteps and the increasingly louder annoyed mutterings of the soldiers hot on your tail. You brace yourself for the jump to come. Rolling and dodging your way…
Cartoon Catch-Up | Hellboy: Sword of Storms
With the recent release of the Hellboy reboot in cinemas this month, to mostly negative reviews, we take a look at a lesser-known animated Hellboy film, Sword of Storms, released in 2006, the first of two direct to DVD tales (the other…
Dieorama | The Amusing, Violent Little Worlds of Abigail Goldman
Kevin Staake’s documentary short, Dieorama, examines the morbid dioramas of artist Abigail Goldman. Through talking heads and exquisitely captured frames of her work, Goldman’s process and intention are realised, and discussions of…
Out Here | 6 | A Dirt Clod Among Stars
I look out the Luan Gallery’s tall windows at the river Shannon. It moves westwards through Athlone like a slow, black brushstroke. Sunlight dances on the water, boats rock with its flow, swans glide downriver. I turn away and back to the…
Ballybraddan | A Hidden Gem in Irish Animation
Ballybraddan is back for a second season, ten years after its first episode aired. This beautifully animated children’s series tells the coming-of-age story of a group of fifth class students. As this ragtag group try to find themselves,…
Exhibition Review | Efference Copy Mechanism @ Temple Bar Gallery
Efference Copy Mechanism by Ronan McCrea is the latest exhibition on show at the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and is comprised of a complex arrangement of superimposed slide and 16 mm film projections, sourced from the artist’s personal…
What’s On | Art Events in April
Looking for something inspiring to do this month? Check out these Art Events in April, taking place around the country this month!
Exhibitions:
Living Inside: Six Voices from the History of Irish Prison Reform
Living Inside is…
Sex, Art and Politics | The Visual Realities of Tracey Emin
“A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple”
–Tracey Emin
Expressionist freedom, the art that anchors Tracey Emin to this world. She has no secrets left inside her soul, all her deepest fears and desires are…
Welcome – Conor Nolan At Lucky’s
If I have any kind of superpower, it’s being able to spot a printmaker at twenty paces, regardless as to whether there are any traditional prints on show or not. There’s a very specific way that printmakers make art that is obvious even if…
Performance Art and What it Means to Me
I’m not an art critic and I don’t have a background in art but after seeing a performance at a recent exhibition, I felt so absorbed by the work that I felt compelled to put pen to paper to tease out the ideas that had been rattling around…