Tom Lordan
@tomlordan.bsky.social
Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
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Tom Lordan
@tomlordan.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Wrote a catalogue essay for Cian McLoughlin's incredible 'Zero Is An Even Number' at the Molesworth Gallery. McLoughlin's arresting style is always evolving, though aesthetic and conceptual themes connect each stage of practice.
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
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Nous recevons ce mardi à 18h30 la philosophe Catherine Malabou pour une masterclass exceptionnelle. N’attendez plus et réservez votre place pour ce soir ! L’accès est ouvert à tous et même offert à nos abonnés, en ligne ou au Club de l’Étoile (Paris XVIIe).
Assistez à la masterclass de Catherine Malabou ce mardi à 18h30, en présentiel ou à distance
Pouvons-nous nous passer de gouvernement ? Peut-on lutter contre la flexibilité généralisée au nom de la plasticité ? Ce sont des questions au cœur de la…
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January 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Nous recevons ce mardi à 18h30 la philosophe Catherine Malabou pour une masterclass exceptionnelle. N’attendez plus et réservez votre place pour ce soir ! L’accès est ouvert à tous et même offert à nos abonnés, en ligne ou au Club de l’Étoile (Paris XVIIe).
Summertime (1955) by David Lean.
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Summertime (1955) by David Lean.
Love this painting by Alfonso Ponce de León, Self Portrait (1936). Saw it in Madrid - a funny, intense and disquieting work, foreshadowing political violence and the artist's looming death in civil war Spain.
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Love this painting by Alfonso Ponce de León, Self Portrait (1936). Saw it in Madrid - a funny, intense and disquieting work, foreshadowing political violence and the artist's looming death in civil war Spain.
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The failure to agree European-wide online child protection laws is to the “collective shame” of political institutions, the Minister for Media has said.
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Europe’s failure to agree online child protection laws a ‘collective shame’, says Minister
Social media ban on under-16s a ‘sticking plaster on gaping wound’, Dáil hears
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December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The failure to agree European-wide online child protection laws is to the “collective shame” of political institutions, the Minister for Media has said.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...
Brother's wedding, August.
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Brother's wedding, August.
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Alexander Calder, Gibraltar, 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136803
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136803
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Alexander Calder, Gibraltar, 1936
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136803
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136803
Love this book: Sloterdijk is such an intriguing philosopher. A fascinating study of cynicism as the dominant psychopolitical mode in late 20th century Western culture (published in 1981).
December 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Love this book: Sloterdijk is such an intriguing philosopher. A fascinating study of cynicism as the dominant psychopolitical mode in late 20th century Western culture (published in 1981).
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What is the nature and meaning of the ‘aesthetic’?
This question animates Jane Forsey’s dive into the foundations of philosophical aesthetics. The result is a compelling new theory of aesthetic experience.
Preview: https://bit.ly/4a4VfQs
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pDBPHu
This question animates Jane Forsey’s dive into the foundations of philosophical aesthetics. The result is a compelling new theory of aesthetic experience.
Preview: https://bit.ly/4a4VfQs
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pDBPHu
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What is the nature and meaning of the ‘aesthetic’?
This question animates Jane Forsey’s dive into the foundations of philosophical aesthetics. The result is a compelling new theory of aesthetic experience.
Preview: https://bit.ly/4a4VfQs
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pDBPHu
This question animates Jane Forsey’s dive into the foundations of philosophical aesthetics. The result is a compelling new theory of aesthetic experience.
Preview: https://bit.ly/4a4VfQs
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pDBPHu
Sean Scully is unquestionably one of Ireland's most acclaimed painters, celebrated by no less than Arthur Danto. His latest exhibition at the #Kerlin, Tapestry, is one I enjoyed immensely.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Sean Scully: Tapestry review – A rewarding encounter with one of Ireland’s most acclaimed painters
Visual art: Despite turning 80 this year, the Irish artist shows no sign of retreating into habit
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December 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Sean Scully is unquestionably one of Ireland's most acclaimed painters, celebrated by no less than Arthur Danto. His latest exhibition at the #Kerlin, Tapestry, is one I enjoyed immensely.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Storm Bram, Clontarf
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Storm Bram, Clontarf
O Dochartaigh grapples with political violence in Northern Ireland, by addressing chronic medical conditions experienced by himself and his family. A subtle, intriguing exhibition.
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#ProjectArtsCentre
#CiaranODochartaigh
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@irishtimes.com
#ProjectArtsCentre
#CiaranODochartaigh
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Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh: Vague Symptom Clinic review – Chronic illness and political violence intermeshed
The Derry artist draws on his and his family’s health problems to raise the spectre of state violence in his city
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December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
O Dochartaigh grapples with political violence in Northern Ireland, by addressing chronic medical conditions experienced by himself and his family. A subtle, intriguing exhibition.
@irishtimes.com
#ProjectArtsCentre
#CiaranODochartaigh
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
@irishtimes.com
#ProjectArtsCentre
#CiaranODochartaigh
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To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
hyperallergic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
I wrote about Alan Butler's newest exhibition ASSETS at the Green On Red Gallery. A contemporary alchemist, Butler creates technological imaginaries, bringing unseen global civilisational forces alive. Spellbinding.
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
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@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
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With Assets, Alan Butler challenges the forces of predatory capitalism
One of Ireland’s most technologically sophisticated artists renders tangible the virtual realities that underlie 21st-century economies
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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote about Alan Butler's newest exhibition ASSETS at the Green On Red Gallery. A contemporary alchemist, Butler creates technological imaginaries, bringing unseen global civilisational forces alive. Spellbinding.
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
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This year’s Dublin Gallery Weekend is in full swing with over forty galleries, including the RHA, taking part across the city.
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This year’s Dublin Gallery Weekend is in full swing with over forty galleries, including the RHA, taking part across the city.
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
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Japanese poster for Ingmar Bergman's THE RITE (1969)
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Japanese poster for Ingmar Bergman's THE RITE (1969)
My latest review for @irishtimes.com is online. This week's focus is Corban Walker's #RESIST at @solomonfineart.bsky.social. The acclaimed, Cork-based artist continues to exercise his long-standing preoccupation with structure, scale, utility and proportion.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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RESIST: between structure and entropy, Corban Walker’s sculptures resist their own annihilation
The accomplished artist continues to explore long-standing preoccupations into structure, scale, utility and proportion
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October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My latest review for @irishtimes.com is online. This week's focus is Corban Walker's #RESIST at @solomonfineart.bsky.social. The acclaimed, Cork-based artist continues to exercise his long-standing preoccupation with structure, scale, utility and proportion.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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Sunrise in the Pyrenees
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Sunrise in the Pyrenees
Latest review for @irishtimes.com was on Ella Bertilsson's Slippery Like Mango Juice at the #Horse gallery on Bethesda Place, around the corner from the #HughLane.
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
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Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Ella Bertilsson: Slippery Like Mango Juice review – Violence simmers below a playful surface
Ella Bertilsson’s work oscillates between pointed satire and reflections on social isolation
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October 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Latest review for @irishtimes.com was on Ella Bertilsson's Slippery Like Mango Juice at the #Horse gallery on Bethesda Place, around the corner from the #HughLane.
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Saw PTA's new film One Battle After Another yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it, though I'd like to see it again - hard to wrap my head around it. Some intriguing resonances with Aster's satire Eddington. An unusual narrative form: it wasn't a journey, it wasn't episodic...
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Saw PTA's new film One Battle After Another yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it, though I'd like to see it again - hard to wrap my head around it. Some intriguing resonances with Aster's satire Eddington. An unusual narrative form: it wasn't a journey, it wasn't episodic...
"If one wishes to label me 'analytic', I will accept it only with the clarification that mine is a special form."
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
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Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Sein und Nichts - der Philosoph Lorenz Bruno Puntel im Gespräch
YouTube video by Loyola Productions Munich - Visualizing Minds
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September 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"If one wishes to label me 'analytic', I will accept it only with the clarification that mine is a special form."
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Helen Blake: Let the Rules Be Soft review – An absorbing, unmissable exhibition
Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling
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September 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...