• the arts column: January 29th

    January 29, 2020 - By 

    This week we’ve got details on a pair of new exhibitions opening in Dublin, one closing in Belfast, an artist talk in Cork, and a pair of open calls for artworks and papers. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Exhibition Opening| Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin This coming Thursday, January 30th, sees the opening of two next exhibitions in Dublin’s Douglas Hyde Gallery. In the gallery’s main space sees the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Mexican artist Gabriel Kuri, who presents: spending static to save gas – an exhibition addressing…

  • the arts column: February 26th

    February 25, 2019 - By 

    In this week’s edition of the arts column we’ve details of this a spoken word event, a proposal for a new arts space in Dublin, studio lets, exhibitions and funding deadlines. As always, if you have an event, talk, exhibition, or would like to recommend one please get in touch via aidan[at]thethinair.net Event | Performance @ IMMA, Dublin Tomorrow, Wednesday 27th, sees IMMA After, a collective of artists and young art professionals based in IMMA, are due to host a spoken word event in the museum. Titled Spoken Realties and hosted in association with Poetry Ireland, the evening sees poets Maighread Medbh, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Padraig Regan and…

  • The Journey

    May 5, 2017 - By 

    With the opening credits of The Journey stating that you are about to watch an imagined depiction of what happened between Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) and Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) during a key moment in the Northern Ireland peace process, you can hopefully brace yourself for the ludicrously ill-conceived film that screenwriter and novelist Colin Bateman and director Nick Hamm (Godsend) have decided to bestow upon the public. Set in 2007, when the sworn enemies were at loggerheads over how they could cut a deal and set up a power-sharing government between Paisley’s DUP and McGuinness’ Sinn Fein, the two…