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Minister notes standalone value of the arts

Ireland

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du 03/04/2010 00:00 au 03/06/2010 00:00
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Texte : By Gerry SMYTH
The Irish Times
Ireland
April 3rd, 2010
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OUR NEW Minister for Culture (we’ll have to get used to that name change, arts to culture) swapped the shock and awe of Nama [National Asset Management Agency] for the shock and awe of the New York school of painters in the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday evening, her first venture onto cultural ground since taking up the role. What must have been particularly soothing after her day in the Dáil were the dreamy sounds of Morton Feldman’s percussion piece The King of Denmark.

Music of another kind to the ears of the museum’s director Enrique Juncosa and his staff was Minister Mary Hanafin’s praise for the “place that Imma [Irish Museum of Modern Art] now occupies in the world of international museums”.

After a tour of the exhibition, Vertical Thoughts, the Minister delivered an eloquent response to the impressive array of major Abstract Expressionists on show. She also seemed keen to make a point that went down well with those present – that we must value the arts for their own sake, and take the tourism and economic spin-off as an added bonus.(...)

Imma chairman Eoin McGonigal emphasised the importance of Imma’s relationship with sister institutions abroad and how those international connections had become something of a hallmark. (...)

Triskel works to go ahead

Despite the collapse last week of Murray Ó Laoire Architects (MÓLA), Cork City Council has confirmed that work is to continue as planned on the company’s €4 million scheme for the Triskel Arts Centre, writes Mary Leland.(...)

This vision is to refurbish the medieval Christ Church on North Main Street and to connect it as a performance venue to the adjacent Triskel on Tobin Street, which, when re-opened later this year, will become the most historic cultural venue in the city.(...)

Project Friends’ fundraising

Project Arts Centre celebrated the past, the present and the future, writes Sara Keating, as it launched its new Friends fundraising scheme on Wednesday night. Peter Sheridan, who was involved with Project in its first nomadic incarnation and its subsequent leaky home on Essex Street, made a passionate speech, reminding a young audience of Project’s history and legacy as “a vital socio-political force” in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (...)

Artistic director Willie White, who wrote his Masters thesis on Project’s history, also had a store of historical tributes to draw on, but he was more keen to celebrate the 500 performances and 50,000 audience members that kept Project Arts Centre thriving in 2009. (...)

Arts festival Louth and proud

Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Valentyn Silvestrov. Follow that. Louth Contemporary Music Society is adding to the list of world renowned composers by bringing acclaimed Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina to the county. Gubaidulina’s first visit to Ireland will be a highlight of this year’s Drogheda Arts Festival on the May bank holiday weekend.(...)

Also in Drogheda Arts Festival will be a world premiere of an Upstate production of Conall Quinn’s – winner of this year’s Stewart Parker award – The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars. Commissioned by the festival and directed by Paul Hayes, it’s described as an entertaining and surreal tale of love and death set on a Co Louth beach during the second World War.(...)

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Date de publication : 03/04/2010


Période traitée : 2010-04-03
Mots-clés : Ireland, IMMA, NAMA,
Inséré le : 03/04/2010 21:31