‘The exhibit raises questions: should personal letters be deemed part of Kerouac’s literary work? Should they be read at all? These are topics that Loewentheil hopes the exhibition invites…’
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #JackKerouac
An oil on canvas painting of a woman dressed in a beautiful white or silver gown in the style of the 1800s, sitting on a large and plush couch, holding a large wooden harp in her lap that she is playing as she looks directly at the artist. There are volumes of velvet curtain behind her, a book of music on the couch next to her, and other rich looking furnishings around the room.
Today we’re sharing this beautiful portrait of Miss Catherine O’Conor and her harp for our second post in #MusicMarch!
Did you know that Ireland is the only country to have a musical instrument (the harp) as its national symbol?
#CrawfordArtGallery #Music #harp #irishharp #art
Statement by President Connolly on International Women’s Day 2026
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‘What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years.’ @president.ie
www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...
Happy International Women’s Day!
To celebrate, we spoke with #Constellations exhibiting artists Amanda Coogan and Jennifer Trouton about their work, their experiences as female artists, and what #InternationalWomensDay means to them.
youtu.be/fxcKz_UYm3c
#CrawfordArtGallery #TouringandSharing
Mildly obsessed with this roundel on the Commons Road in Blackpool, Cork. The manicule is giving London Underground.
Millview Cottages 1907 👈
MAKE 2026 Symposium has been a total treat 💚
Fascinating presentations from Helen A. Fielding, EJTECH (Judit Eszter Kárpáti + Esteban de la Torre), Vivienne Roche, and the inimitable, irrepressible Martin Creed!
Big congrats to Pamela Hardesty and the MTU crew 💫
Really looking forward to presenting on William Blake and James Barry at Cork Public Museum tomorrow as part of the Friends of @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social’s spring lecture series.
12:30pm Friday 6 March
Tickets €10, students go free with ID
crawfordartgallery.ie/friends-lect...
Biscuit Tin Nostalgia, the superb new exhibition from Elize de Beer, opened at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Cork this evening. Go see before 18 April!
sample-studios.com/exhibitions/...
Join us tomorrow for the opening event of This is Ireland!
Presented by @CrawfordSupportedStudios & @CorkCountyCouncil’s LHQ Gallery, This is Ireland is a vibrant, powerful group exhibition featuring the work of 16 disabled artists, a powerful perspective that challenges stereotypes. Details below!
And for the LOL of it all…
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
youtu.be/dxpjzOLVRR0?...
Art Thoughts: Is Irish visual art still overlooked overseas? @cristinleach.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
'London, Winter' (1928) by Christopher RW Nevinson
(London Museum)
Booking link, March Reading Group: 25th, 7pm GMT, online.
*The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by #eibhearwalshe, exploring Bowen's complex life, particularly the love rectangle she formed w/ her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, and EB's husband Alan Cameron.
www.tickettailor.com/events/eliza...
'Evening, Killarney.' (1941) Speaking to an art critic in the 1930s, Paul Henry said: 'What always strikes me about the Irish landscape is its otherworldliness. There's an air of mystery about it ... you feel that anything may happen round the corner.'
It’s a lovely watch
For those of you who might need a ray of hope and warmth…
Lee Knight’s short A Friend of Dorothy, starring Miriam Margolyes, Alistair Nwachukwu, Stephen Fry, and Oscar Lloyd
youtube.com/watch?v=CMqU...
It’s #Music March! For our first post we’re reminiscing on a very special visit to the gallery when Denis O’Callaghan gave a memorable performance in front of the portrait of him painted by his brother Diarmuid O’Ceallacháin! Denis recently celebrated his 100th birthday
#CrawfordArtGallery #irishart
Although I haven’t been able to identify the sculptor of the marble Virgin and Child, the six paintings on copper that depict the Life of Our Lady were made by Patrick Pye to mark the cathedral’s 200th anniversary in 1999. 2/2
Tucked away in the northwest corner of the Cathedral of St Mary and St Anne is a little gem of a space.
The tall, octagonal Lady Chapel is light-filled and animated by the intentions and flicker of votive candles. 1/2
Delighted about the positive review of my book on Jack B. Yeats in the context of Irish and Global modernism in the March 2026 issue of The Burlington Magazine.
Congratulations, Elisabeth!
"Everything is politics...You don't get to make art in a fascist state"
CMAT delivering, mar is gnách. 👏
(Same goes for sport btw)
#Speirgorm
Today is the last day to catch Dreams of Hyperborea, a little beauty of a show by artist Petrina Shortt at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion in Cork.
The work ‘explores the imaginative and ecological potential of a wild marine forest in West Cork.’
sample-studios.com/exhibitions/...
Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.
Three terracotta statues of Orpheus, sitting on a stool and playing his instrument, and two sirens, half human and half bird, standing in front of him.
A highlight of early Hellenistic Taranto is the stunning terracotta group of Orpheus and the Sirens, recently returned from the Getty to Italy. While striking, their original setting, possibly on a funerary monument, remains a mystery.
Taranto, late 4th c. BCE, 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺
It holds strong resonance with Off the Donegal Coast (1922) by Jack B. Yeats @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social
ARTIST HIGHLIGHT 🖼️
With #Constellations at #FEMcwilliam now in full swing, we will be highlighting some of the works from the exhibition. First up is A Living Colour Index by Michael Hannah!
Constellations is in Banbridge until 2 May.
#CrawfordArtGallery #TouringandSharing
The Curragh.' (1914) This painting by Irish artist Paul Henry is full of drama, accentuated by the use of a high horizon and tall waves as if to remind us of the danger facing the crew of this small boat. It brings home the harsh life of the islanders on Achill off County Mayo.
We celebrated the "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family & The Public Arts" exhibition today!
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog featuring essays by various scholars that offer new insights & interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses.
Thanks to @echolive.bsky.social for covering the new exhibition, Constellations: Selected Work from Crawford Art Gallery, which runs until 2 May at F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge.
www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
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