Contrapposto

The website of Irish art critic Cristín Leach Hughes

Alice Maher – Cell

This giant ball of still-green brambles fills the room with the smell of fresh-cut ditches.

200 words: on Rivane Neuenschwander at IMMA

This Brazilian conceptualist amplifies the potential for magic in everyday life.

200 words: on The David Kronn Collection at IMMA

Every good collection needs its share of iconic images and the Irish-born US-based paediatrician David Kronn has gathered several.

200 words: on Barrie Cooke at IMMA & Crawford

Barrie Cooke likes to paint “godbeams”, those bolts of sunshine that strike between gaps in the clouds….his nudes are messy and spread-eagled.

200 words: on Twenty at IMMA

Since its foundation in 1991, IMMA has collected current work by living artists.

200 words & video: on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at IMMA

Although this superb exhibition celebrates Mexico’s most famous artist-couple, it is the iconic figure of Frida Kahlo that has been drawing the crowds to IMMA.

IMMA search for Barrie Cooke paintings

The Irish Museum of Modern Art is looking for help in locating three key paintings by the Irish artist Barrie Cooke.

Louise Bourgeois dies aged 98

The French-born, US-based, artist Louise Bourgeois has passed away at the age of 98. It has been reported that she suffered a heart attack at the weekend, and died on Monday 31 May 2010 in a New York hospital. Although critical and commercial success came late, she was a hugely influential figure in US and European art, [...]