CIRCA attended one of the world's most prominent art fairs, the New York Armory Show from 6 - 10 March 2003 and discovered that there is much more to art fairs than just art.

How should film-making in Ireland be supported, and what sort of films? Maeve Connolly reports on a recent event marking thirty years of funding for film by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Gemma Tipton asks: what do we really want from our art museums?

Word and Image form a recurrent juxtaposition in contemporary art. Here Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes sets the scene for the main theme of this issue of CIRCA.

Like an Edenic fall from grace, word and image drifted apart as society evolved. Here David Scott traces their diverging paths, and looks at artistic efforts to engage with the gap between the two.

Joseph Beuys had a fascination with Joyce's writings. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes examines here how deep the influence were.

Mary Ruth Wales describes a radical tour-de-force at the word/image interface.

Bruce Nauman has taken much from Beckett, who himself was very aware of issues within the visual arts. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes explores the links between the two creative intellects.

Words are a frequent aspects of the artworks of Willie Doherty. Here Paul O'brien explores how they function together.

When the text is the genetic code, and the visual is a photograph of our galaxy, word and image can travel far-flung routes. James Elkins reports here on how the Milky Way became DNA.