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Climate protesters arrested after throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh masterpiece

Two Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested after throwing tinned soup at one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings to protest against fossil fuels. The protesters, wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts, threw two tins of Heinz Tomato soup over ...

14 Oct 2022 at 13:47

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Final callout to Kilkenny artists to enter national art competition

The National Gallery of Ireland is issuing a final call-out to artists of all ages in Kilkenny to enter the Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize 2023. The Zurich Portrait Prize aims to encourage interest in contemporary ...

18 Jun 2023 at 09:10

National News

No more government money will be spent on unused art gallery scanner – minister

No more government funding will be given to help house an unused scanner bought by the National Gallery eight years ago, Patrick O’Donovan has said. The Arts Minister said the issue around how the X-ray scanner was bought without ...

26 Feb 2025 at 09:13

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Two Kilkenny artists shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize

The Zurich Portrait Prize and Zurich Young Portrait Prize exhibitions 2022 opened on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at the National Gallery of Ireland. From hundreds of entries, the shortlists of this year’s Zurich Portrait Prize ...

29 Nov 2022 at 15:25

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Two Kilkenny artists shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize

From hundreds of entries, the shortlist of this year’s Zurich Portrait Prize have been announced by the National Gallery of Ireland. Two Kilkenny artists have been shortlisted for the Zurich Portrait Prize: Bernadette Kiely ...

20 Aug 2022 at 09:59

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Last chance for Kilkenny people to display photos on façade of National Gallery of Ireland

The walls of the National Gallery of Ireland will light up on Culture Night for Painting Mirror, an interactive digital display of portraits and landscapes submitted by the public. The Gallery has once again come together ...

14 Sept 2022 at 11:07

Arts & Entertainment

REVEALED: The discovery of the unknown Vincent Van Gogh portrait

A curator at the National Galleries of Scotland learned that a previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh had been found on the back of another painting while she was waiting outside a fish shop. Professor ...

14 Jul 2022 at 15:33

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National Gallery of Ireland’s exhibition New Perspectives features art with a Kilkenny connection

The National Gallery of Ireland has announced a new exhibition which features a Kilkenny flavour. New Perspectives, a show comprised of acquisitions made by the Gallery between 2011 to 2020, has been launched to ...

20 May 2021 at 14:45

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Unique 1600’s view of Kilkenny joins Turner Watercolours in National Gallery of Ireland

Some of the earliest depictions of Kilkenny in the national art collection are to go on display in the National Gallery of Ireland. Rare drawings by Francis Place (1647–1728), who visited Ireland in 1698 ...

02 Jan 2022 at 16:00

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Rare 17th Century views of Kilkenny city

Rare scenes of Kilkenny, drawn in the 1600s, can now be seen in the online catalogue of the National Gallery of Ireland. The drawings are by Francis Place, whose ink and graphite drawings were to go on ...

05 Feb 2021 at 11:50

National News

'Where does it stop?' - People outraged by the National Gallery's €124,000 unused scanner

Once again, the Government is faced with another scandal regarding the money spent on a special scanner for the National Gallery, just months after the notorious Dáil bike shed debacle. It has emerged ...

25 Feb 2025 at 13:56

Arts & Entertainment

'Clever' - Irish musician backs climate activists who defaced Van Gogh painting

Bob Geldof has said the climate change protesters who threw soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers were “1000% right”. The Irish musician, 71, said it had been “clever” to deface the 1888 painting while it ...

25 Oct 2022 at 12:39

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