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Head of Audience Development & Stakeholder Engagement, National Gallery of Ireland.

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A major exhibition celebrating the life and work of artist Pablo Picasso will open on Thursday at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin
Picasso exhibition to open at National Gallery
A major exhibition celebrating the life and work of the artist Pablo Picasso will open on Thursday at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Why Dublin is the surprising city to delve into Picasso’s troubling relationship with women…

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Dublin is the surprising city to explore Picasso’s troubling relationship with women
Not focusing just on Picasso, but also highlighting the importance of the other people around him, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in partnership with the Musée Picasso ...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Cold, dust and darkness — the daily rituals that unleashed Picasso

An exhibition in Dublin turns the key on the chaotic magic of the artist’s (many, many) studios.

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Cold, dust and darkness — the daily rituals that unleashed Picasso
An exhibition in Dublin turns the key on the chaotic magic of the artist’s (many, many) studios
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October 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Picasso exhibition opening in National Gallery of Ireland was three years in the making.

Visitors can see 60 of the Spanish artist’s paintings and sculptures.

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Picasso exhibition opening in National Gallery of Ireland was three years in the making
Fifty-six years ago, Trinity College Dublin students managed to organise an exhibition of the artist Pablo Picasso’s works in Dublin. National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) curator of modern art Janet McLe...
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September 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Before the @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social opens a landmark exhibition on Pablo Picasso, there’s time to book a weekend in some of the artist’s favourite haunts for some winter sun ... thegloss.ie/touring-the-...
September 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Inside Picasso’s studios: the secrets of the places where he lived and loved. An exhibition @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social charts the places the artist worked, from Paris to Cannes.

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Inside Picasso’s studios: the secrets of the places where he lived and loved
An exhibition charts the places where the artist worked, from Paris to Cannes
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August 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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The @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social throws open the doors to Picasso’s private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works that chart the artist’s reinvention across studios from Montmartre to Mougins. artlyst.com/previews/pab...
Pablo Picasso: Private Creative Realms Revealed in Dublin Exhibition
The National Gallery of Ireland throws open the doors to Picasso's private creative realms this autumn, presenting sixty works...
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August 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Lovely write up on Vermeer’s Love Letters in the @financialtimes.com

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July 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Jack B Yeats’s painting of mournful scene after Bloody Sunday 1920 is acquired by National Gallery
Jack B Yeats’s painting of mournful scene after Bloody Sunday 1920 is acquired by National Gallery
Picture once owned by late Ben Dunne was acquired with taxpayers’ money and help of a donor
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June 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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The Silent Narratives and Revealing Exchanges of “Vermeer’s Love Letters” at the Frick. Three treasured works by the Dutch master now on view in Manhattan
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June 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship

A kaleidoscope of colour through which the history of modernism is refracted, this exhibition brings to light the creative benefits of long-lasting friendship, collaboration and experimentation

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Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone: The Art of Friendship
A kaleidoscope of colour through which the history of modernism is refracted, this exhibition brings to light the creative benefits of long-lasting friendship, collaboration and experimentation
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May 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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‘The Art of Friendship’ is the first joint exhibition of Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone’s work since 1924. Philippa Conlon welcomes the chance to see the two modernists side by side at the National Gallery of Ireland
Meet two heroines of Irish modernism | Apollo Magazine
Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects, writes Philippa Conlon
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May 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Jellett and Hone were to be trailblazers for modernism in the newly independent Ireland.

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The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland
In 1921, the sternly abstract cubist Albert Gleizes opened the door of his Parisian apartment to two young women in their twenties, the Irish artists Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. They explained that…
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May 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Meet two heroines of Irish modernism.

The exhibition is a crucial reintroduction to Ireland’s modernist innovators, to their artistic affinities and their enduring friendship.

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Meet two heroines of Irish modernism | Apollo Magazine
Dublin-born artists Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone brought a boldly avant-garde sensibility to traditional subjects, writes Philippa Conlon
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May 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland.

The unique vision of Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett came from a fascinating mix of influences: Dublin Protestantism, Celtic art, Sickert and Parisian abstraction.

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The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland
In 1921, the sternly abstract cubist Albert Gleizes opened the door of his Parisian apartment to two young women in their twenties, the Irish artists Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett. They explained that ...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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‘Rebels with a cause: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland’

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Rebels with a cause: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone at the National Gallery of Ireland - The Tablet
WHEN A WOMAN enters a convent, it has all sorts of ramifications for her family and friends; but when 30-year-old Evie Hone became a postulant in Cornwall in
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April 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett were pioneering modern artists, who played a key role in the introduction of international modernism, and abstraction in particular, to an often-suspicious audience in 20th-century Ireland.

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The Art Diary April 2025 - Revd Jonathan Evens
Easter regularly brings exhibitions exploring themes drawn from Christianity; this year is no exception. For the April 2025 Diary
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April 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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They were artistic trailblazers, bringing modernism to the then deeply conservative country. But Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett faced huge hostility. Now a thrilling new show is celebrating their brilliance – and determination

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‘Freak pictures’: Ireland’s art revolutionaries who were treated so badly one fled to a nunnery
They were artistic trailblazers, bringing modernism to the then deeply conservative country. But Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett faced huge hostility. Now a thrilling new show is celebrating their brilli...
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April 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Loving the design on the new facade of O’Reilly’s Bar on Merrion Row.
March 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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The Frick reopening includes a Vermeer exhibition that will pair its “Mistress and Maid” with loans from the Rijksmuseum & National Gallery of Ireland

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Column | A season of art that perceives the world differently (just what we need)
A reopened New York institution, an enduring Los Angeles museum and much more bring us spring’s must-see exhibitions.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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11 Creative Gifts To Inspire You For Valentine’s Day

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11 Creative Gifts To Inspire You For Valentine's Day - The Gloss Magazine
Let these creative, unique and thoughtful gift ideas inspire you and your loved ones this Valentine's Day and beyond
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February 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Breaking News: President Trump said he planned to take control of the Kennedy Center and intended to fire several board members and install himself as chair.
Trump Says He Will Install Himself as Kennedy Center Chairman
The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.
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February 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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When architects meet their makers.

Studies in the pleasures of timber, thatch and stone

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When architects meet their makers | Charles Saumarez Smith | The Critic Magazine
Last September, I went to the annual Robert Maxwell Lecture given at the Athenaeum under the auspices of the Architecture Club.
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February 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now on display in the city of Limassol.
Portrait discovered under Titian masterpiece
Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now on display in the city o...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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An arts conference focused on the challenges and issues faced by artists who are members of the Traveller community has heard about the need for more access to funding and securing a dedicated arts venue for the community
Conference highlights issues faced by Traveller artists
An arts conference focused on the challenges and issues faced by artists who are members of the Traveller community has been held in Dublin.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM