Culture File

Pioneering long distance swimmer, Mercedes Gleitze celebrated in the work of Dublin-based artist -- and long distance swimmer -- Vanessa Daws

Botanical artist, Yanny Petters, spent much of her time in recent months studying the garden her German parents began in Co Wicklow in the 1960s.

Composer, artist and Things Know Things creator, Jennifer Walshe on her new role as Professor of Composition at Oxford.

This weekly, Jennifer Walshe returns to the life of a travelling musician with a trip to Venice, Luke Clancy takes a seat for some post-ish-pandemic biosecurity theater, and Paddy Woodworth adds Bill Jordan's The Sunflower Forest to the collection of essential nature writing on The Naturalist's Bookshelf.

Artist and soldering-iron wielder, Adam Gibney shares some of his favourite reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.

This month, Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecology can usefully mix.

Paul Hillier and Chamber Choir Ireland polish a lost gem in Andrea Gabrieli’s 1585 Italian choral take on Oedipus Rex

Paddy Woodworth adds William Jordan's exploration of 'restoration ecology' to his shelf stocked with essential nature writing.

As a post-pandemic Dublin Theatre Festival opens, Luke Clancy attends a biosecure opening night

A tentative return to the life of a travelling post-pandemic musician, for Jennifer Walshe.

A global history of the soft power of hummus; what happens when an AI helps create a gallery press release; the complex business of pie (ie, money) slicing on Spotify; and Silvija Šcerbaviciute's journeys into flute.

Some reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling favourites from violinist and crash ensemble member, Larissa O'Grady.

Hobby computers armed with sensors for everything from noise to humidity animate the complex, sometimes humorous work of Dublin artist, Adam Gibney.

Is the pie (ie, the money) of music streaming services getting sliced fairly, wonders Prof Aisling Kelliher.

Flute is a famly business for RTÉ Concert Orchestra principal flute, Silvija Šcerbaviciute

Harriet Nussbaum's new book traces the history of hummus, from its early Christian roots to the 40 shades of hummus now sloshing over supermarkets around the globe.

Harriet Nussbaum's new book traces the history of hummus, from its early Christian roots to the 40 shades of hummus now sloshing over supermarkets around the globe.

Harriet Nussbaum's new book traces the history of hummus, from its early Christian roots to the 40 shades of hummus now sloshing over supermarkets around the globe.

The grind and clatter of skateboarding enter contemporary music, in violinist, Larrisa O'Grady's latest project; artist and percussionist, Cevdet Erek, on his beat-based exhibition at Void in Derry, Clare Langan on filmmaking in a climate emergency, and Alexander Lloyd Blake on the place where choral music meets BlackLiveMatter.

Some recent watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling delights from the violinist, Darragh Morgan.

Some recent watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling delights from the violinist, Darragh Morgan.

The grind and clatter of skateboarding enter contemporary music, in violinist, Larrisa O'Grady's latest project; artist and percussionist, Cevdet Erek, on his beat-based exhibition at Void in Derry, Clare Langan on filmmaking in a climate emergency, and Alexander Lloyd Blake on the place where choral music meets BlackLiveMatter.

Violinist, Larissa O'Grady's latest journey into new music means playing accompanied by the sounds of live skateboarders, in composer, Sam Perkin's Dis-cord.

Artist-filmmaker, Clare Langan on her latest film, The Heart of A Tree, and the complex art of making films of a world in peril.

Composer, conductor and instigator of #BlackVoicesMatter, Alexander Lloyd Blake on the LA ensemble he founded to rethink what a choral group is, and what it can do.