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Eccentric Energy from Mexico Way 


Her shows are a cocktail of bolero, rumba, ranchero, jazz, postmodern kitsch, surreal costumes and iconography. Already a legend in her own country and abroad, eccentric Mexican diva Astrid Hadad is now coming to Ireland for the first time. 

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Love for Lamps... to Take Over the World 


Lovelamp is one of the artists of Dublin street art scene. In the past few years he has been attracting the attention of the public with his posters and stickers of lamps scattered all over the city. We asked him few questions about his unusual work and his opinion about Dublin street art. 

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Rehabcare's Exploratory Garden for Children 


A garden consisting of tunnels, pathways, grassy mounds, hidden spaces, and tall coloured poles dotted. This is not the latest Disney amusement park, but a project currently undertaken by RehabCare's Childern's Respite Service in Navan. The centre is a residential respite service for children with disabilities and or on the Autism Spectrum. 

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Bacon's Gamble


You visit his studio for the first time. There are tubes of paint everywhere, papers scattered on the floor, a broken mirror, slashed canvases, paint on the walls. Then you see the paintings. At first you notice a figure messed up by a series of spots and deforming lines. You look more carefully.

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Couch to Couch 


French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote: “But the true travellers are they who depart/ For departing's sake; with hearts light as balloons,/ They never swerve from their destinies,/ Saying continuously, without knowing why: 'Let us go on!'/ These have passions formed like clouds.” 

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The Blue Moment 


When Miles Davis’ sextet recorded Kind of Blue in a disused Manhattan church in the spring of 1959, the history of music changed its course. Not only jazz, but all music. Artists as Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Keith Jarrett, Chris Rea, Robert Wyatt and many others, were all influenced by the two fateful sessions when Davis eventually achieved his aim: “learn all the changes”.

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Xanadu: Robert Boyd at the Contest Gallery


The exhibition Xanadu, at the Context Gallery of Londonderry from the 19th of October until the 24th of November, is a four-channel epic video installation in which the New Yorker artist Robert Boyd has been working for years. The artist assembled different archivial footage gathered from news broadcasts, internet, documentaries, cartoons and films in four compositions

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Memory and Conscience at the Foyle Film Festival


Three American filmmakers at the Foyle Film Festival this year raise questions about memory and conscience. The Foyle Film Festival has been taking place every year in Londonderry since 1987 and is regarded as one of the most important events in Northern Ireland.

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Security (Surveys from the Cape of Good Hope): Jane Alexander @ La Centrale Électrique 


Through July 21st, La Centrale Électrique of Brussels exhibits the first monographic exhibition in Belgium of the controversial and surprising African artist Jane Alexander, titled Security (Surveys from the Cape of Good Hope).

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