Cover image: Diana Copperwhite: Retro girl (detail), 2003, oil on linen, 40 cm x 40 cm; courtesy of the artist
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Visual Arts North | Brian Kennedy
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Visual Arts South | Aidan Dunne
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Film and Television | Stephanie McBride
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Fifth Column | Jacqui McIntosh
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Slave to the Machine | Michael Cunningham
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Theme: painting | 28
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Aidan Dunne
Suburban landscapes | Sarah Browne
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Landscapes are the archetypical form of painting, the style most often taken into the home. Sarah Browne looks here at the domestication of painting in a real environment.
Why nothing can be accomplished in painting, and why it is important to keep trying | James Elkins
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Often painting seems stuck in a loop of trying to justify itself. James Elkins surveys the struggle.
Why paint? A vox pop | CIRCA
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CIRCA asked some lapsed and current painters their thoughts on painting
Project | Nevan Lahart
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Nevan Lahart is circasized
Material matters: the conservation of modern art | Mary McGrath
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Paintings can be very fragile, and contemporary artists' tendencies to reach for unusual media can cause equally unusual long term problems. Mary McGrath looks at some of the issues surrounding the passage of contemporary production into prosterity.
Surveying contemporary painting | Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith
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What is painting about now? Who are the main players, and what are their driving ideas? Coaimhín Mac Giolla Léith presents his analysis.
Project | 59
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Brian Kennedy
Feature article | 63
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Regina Gleeson
Reviews | 67
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Mark Ewart
Belfast: Revealing Objects at the Naughton Gallery at Queen's | Cherie Driver
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Donald Kuspit: The End of Art | Emmet Cole
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Cardiff: Aint no Love in the Heat of the City at Green on Red | Hannah Firth
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Tinahely: Tricia Cunningham and Rhoda Cunningham at Tinahely Courthouse | Anne Henrichsen
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Dublin: John Noel Smith at Green on Red | Jacqui McIntosh
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Gateshead: Susan Hiller at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art | Paul Stone
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Cobh: Mick O'Shea at Sirius Arts Centre | Alannah Hopkin
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Coney Island: The Dreamland Artist Club | Megan Heuer
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Glasgow: Beverley Hood at Street Level Photoworks | Kirstie Skinner
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Cork: Brian Harte at Form | Alannah Hopkin
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Newtownards: Mary Modeen | Angela Darby
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Bray: Pin at Signal Arts Centre | Alison Pilkington
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Dublin: Artists – Books at the Workroom | Jason Oakley
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Hangzhou: 6 x 6 for Ireland at 411 Gallery | Arvo Bruene
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Kilkenny: Free from the Itch of Desire at Butler Gallery | Sarah Browne
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Dublin: Yoshihiro Suda and Takehito Koganezawa at Douglas Hyde Gallery | Gemma Tipton
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Belfast: C–Zine at Catalyst | Aisling O'Beirn
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Dublin: Aoife Collins at Goethe–Institut | Felicity Ford
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Dublin: Sophie Calle at Irish Museum of Modern Art | Catherine Lyons
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New York: Peter Hendrick at Schroeder Romero | Laurence Hegarty
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Dublin: Varvara Shavrova at Cross Gallery | Ciara Healy
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Derry: Mary T. O'Neill at Context Gallery | Greg McCartney
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Belfast: Claudio Hils at Belfast Exposed | John Mathews
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Dublin: NCAD Fine Art Degree Show | John Gerrard
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Belfast: Gary Show at Golden Thread Gallery | Robert Peters
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