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  • Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetic Journey to Ireland – IMMA

    Cecilia Vicuña’s Poetic Journey to Ireland – IMMA

    Published by HARTES 13 November 2025 The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin presents Reverse Migration, A Poetic Journey, the first solo exhibition in Ireland by artist, poet, and activist Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago, Chile). This retrospective, mounted during the artist’s lifetime, brings together key works from Vicuña’s artistic trajectory, presented chronologically…

  • The Symptom of Barbarism: The Gelman Collection’s Second Surname

    The Symptom of Barbarism: The Gelman Collection’s Second Surname

    Published by HARTES 27 March 2026 If the news that part of the Gelman Collection was to be auctioned off (Sotheby’s New York, November 2024) felt like a slap in the face,[1] then the press release issued by the Santander Foundation in January 2026 announcing its agreement with the Zambrano family to manage the collection…

  • 41st EVA International, Limerick—’It Takes a Village’

    41st EVA International, Limerick—’It Takes a Village’

    Published by HARTES no. 4 December 2025 Ireland’s art biennial, EVA International, is celebrating its 41st edition this year in the city of Limerick, located in the southwest of the island. EVA has collaborated with 13 cultural venues and art galleries to present a group exhibition featuring 22 national and international artists under the curatorial…

  • The Affirmation of Gender in Byzantine Art through St Mary of Egypt

    The Affirmation of Gender in Byzantine Art through St Mary of Egypt

    Published by Emblecat. Journal of Studies of Image, Art and Society 31 January 2025 KEYWORDS – Mary of Egypt, Byzantine, gender, masculine, feminine, sainthood, holiness, anchoress ABSTRACT – Byzantine pictorial cycles in churches follow a strict, well-planned theological symbolism. Not everyone can be a painter, nor can a painter paint whatever they wish. Nevertheless, orthodoxy…

  • FREUDE! FREUDE!

    FREUDE! FREUDE!

    Published by HARTES 27 October 2023 Revised 4 March 2025 Irish Sign Language (ISL) is offered as an elective subject within the Humanities programmes at University College Dublin (UCD). When my roommate—now that I have become something of a Dubliner myself—first mentioned this to me, I was pleasantly surprised. What is perhaps even more surprising…