Culture File

Writer, Mary Morrissy on the painting that launched her journey into the work of Irish 20th Century painter, Una Watters

Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven on some of his favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Lithuanian accordion virtuoso, Martynas Levickis on folk music and sanctions, the curators of Metabolic Time on rethinking the museum, Ailis Ni Rian's new salty song cycle, Watershed, and Jennifer Walshe on AI in the Russian infowar.

Sara Greavu and Cairo Clarke on thinking time - and museums - differently in Metabolic Time, their co-curated exhibition at Project, Dublin.

Martynas Levickis, the virtuoso who brought both Vivaldi and Lady Gaga to the accordion, celebrates a poignant Lithuanian Restoration of Independence Day.

How to articulate the inarticulable, in a new song cycle from composer Ailis Ni Riain, inspired by and featuring the poetry of Jessica Brown

Jennifer Walshe on how technology for creating synthetic human faces is being deployed in the information war for Ukraine.

Aine Gallagher's postcard from LA, with the first drag queen elected to public office in the US; the history and power of cultural sanctions with Laura Slattery; and a show combining new and old work from painter Mark Francis opens at Kerlin Gallery.

Paleobotanist at La Brea Tar Pits, Regan Dunn on some of her favorite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

For his latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the painter started with some crate diving. He talked to Culture File about time, space, paint and sound. And crisps. (Although not that much about crisps, TBH.)

From Valery Gergiev, Anna Netrebko to the Eurovision Song Contest, Russian artists and performers are finding themselves targeted in a wave of anti-invasion sentiment. The Irish Times' Laura Slattery on the history and power of cultural sanctions.

Culture File's Aine Gallagher has been using her post-pandemic freedom to return to Los Angeles, where this time she brings her mic to the bubbling tar at La Brea Tar Pits.

Culture File's Aine Gallagher has been using her post-pandemic freedom to return to Los Angeles, where she's noted changes in the Echo Park neighborhood.

Prof Paige Harden, author of The Genetic Lottery, on using genetics for equality; Giita Hammond's images of her grandmother for whom she is a carer; and Jennifer Walshe on the post-human world of Kimberley biscuits

Paige Harden, author of The Genetic Lottery, on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Irish/Icelandic visual artist and photographer Giita Hammond's new exhibition centres on the world of her grandmother, Maureen, who is living with dementia.

Prof Paige Harden's book The Genetic Lottery explores at how genetics might be used against discrimination and inequality. This time, a thought experiment about redheads.

Prof Paige Harden's book The Genetic Lottery explores at how genetics might be used against discrimination and inequality. This time, GWAS and how genetics changed since you were at school.

In her latest exploration of the unstable edges of things and people, Jennifer Walshe recalls her uncanny, delicious relationship with a childhood toy.

The Irish artist-physicist team exhibiting at the International Space Station, Paddy Woodworth on the only book about Hawks you may ever need, on the trail of collective art action in Ennistymon, and the phygital life of cardigans.

Clare artist and gallerist, Sara Foust on some of her current favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Artist/physicist team of Gillian Fitzpatrick and Justin Donnelly have collaborated on a micro artwork destined for a display in outer space.

How the artists of Ennistymon discovered they were stronger together.

What Harry Styles' phygital cardigan tells us about the exploding world of digital fashion, from virtual couture to screen-based crochet.

Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for inserting on his shelf of essential nature writing is Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.