WHO SAYS JANUARY IS A DULL MONTH? THERE'S LOADS HAPPENING.......

PODCASTS: Missed the Writing Irish Art History Research Day in  Trinity College in November? You can listen back to the podcasts now on iTunesU - Field search terms for Title &  Institution - TRIARC & Trinity College Dublin respectively.
Kindly sponsored by: FOUR COURTS PRESS http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/ 
TRIARC http://www.triarc.ie/ IRCHSS http://www.irchss.ie/

NEXT Writing Irish Art History Event will be at the Association of Art Historians (AAH) Annual Conference in University of Warwick, March 30-April 2, 2011.  Abstracts available soon at:  http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3307

CALL FOR PAPERS:   

SOCIAL NETWORKING BEGAN WITH FACEBOOK - RIGHT? 

WRONG!  Power, wealth, and influence were distributed in myriad ways in the nineteenth century, and often through localised elites or social networks...


CFP for presentations at the 17th International Conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, (SSNCI) to be held in the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, 30 June – 01 July, 2011.

More information at http://www.ssnci.com/2010/09/ssnci-2011-conference-irish-elites-in-the-nineteenth-century/  and  http://irishelites.wordpress.com/
ABSTRACTS BEFORE: January 31, 2011
Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland's Flickr feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/

ATTEND:

TOMORROW! Wednesday 12 January 2011 2.30-3.30 National Museum of Ireland

Conservation Talk: Get behind the scenes at NMI Collins Barracks and see how artefacts are conserved for the future. Includes furniture and textile conservation, bookbinding and archaeological conservation.  

Booking essential some places may still be available. Contact NMI Event Bookings: bookings@museum.ie

ALSO TOMORROW WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2011

Opening Reception: 6pm – 8pm Broadstone Gallery and Studios, 22 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2

Chimeric Agonism - Exhibition of significant body of new work by Cormac Browne and Ciara McMahon as part of their work on the Art in the Contemporary World masters program at the National College of Art and Design. Exhibition continues: 13th – 17th January 2011, 12-6pm.http://www.broadstonestudios.com/

Spanish movie season at Instituto Cervantes, Dublin - beginning on Wednesday 12 January

A new film series that covers the works of the most important figures in Spanish Cinematography.  Fernando León de Aranoa and Isabel Coixet, the late Luis García Berlanga,  Mario Camus, Javier Rebollo and José Luis Guerín. Some of these filmmakers have been photographed by Óscar Fernández Orengo and their portraits form part of the exhibition entitled “Through My Eyes” to open in the Instituto Cervantes on 10th February. More info at: http://dublin.cervantes.es/boletin/newsletter_enero_2011.htm

Thursday 13 January, 5:30 pm Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Cecily Brennan – Artist Talk and Screening ‘Black Tears’

Screening: 13 January – 26 February

http://visualartists.ie/jobs-ops/talks-lectures/cecily-brennan-artist-talk-at-crawford-art-gallery-cork/

Gallery Talk & Symposium this January at IMMA, Dublin:

Wednesday 19 January, 4.00pm East Wing Galleries.

Hear about "Eileen Gray: an Irish Modernist" with  Jennifer Goff, Curator of Furniture, Music, Science & the Eileen Gray Collection from the National Museum Ireland.

Saturday 29 January 10.30-5.30 Lecture Room

"Heroes and Anti-Heroes of C20 Irish Architecture" - Discussion and debate on architecture and design in Ireland in collaboration with DoCoMoMo Ireland

Speakers: Ellen Rowley, Dr. Lisa Godson, Simon Walker, Peter Carroll, Ruth O'Herlihy and Dr. Linda King. NB*BOOKING REQUIRED FOR THESE EVENTS*

BLOG OFF:
Cut-and-Paste is just not on - one blogger succeeds in protecting their intellectual property rights.....
http://www.3pipe.net/2011/01/madame-pickwick-art-blog-unattributted.html

READ:
"Universities ...fatefully in love with ambiguity, they trust in the absurd modernist doctrine that great art should have no moral content or desire to change its audience." Alain de Botton's opinion on how the arts *should be taught today....but be warned! what he has to say may not please everyone....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12136511

"It's not about you. It's about culture, learning, and community space--for everyone." What are museums *really about? What do you think? Comments please!!
http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2011/01/open-letter-to-arianna-huffington.html

Imagine Ireland - major Government funding for promoting Irish arts in the United States http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/first-details-of-new-irish-arts-festival-in-u-s-are-unveiled/

WATCH: Gabriel Byrne on how Irish arts can contribute to Ireland's economic recovery
http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=199703

LISTEN:
Historical accuracy in movies? Abandoned Mansions of Ireland? Discussion about these topics and more in The History Show with Myles Dungan and guests this week at: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/thehistoryshow/

INTERN JOB:
Excellent CV-building opportunity! Dublin Contemporary are looking for a Sponsorship and Development Volunteer for their festival in September next.
http://www.dublincontemporary.com/index.php/about/involve

VISIT:
Declan Clarke ' We'll be this way until the end of the world' - Unlocking the codified language of monuments
Venue: Mother's Tankstation Dublin. 12th Jan to – 12th Feb 2011
DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE EXHIBITION SPACE AND THE DARKNESS REQUIRED FOR SCREENINGS, THE GALLERY OPENING HOURS WILL BE 4-6PM, THURSDAY TO SATURDAY. http://bit.ly/ey1NLj

VIRTUAL VISIT:
Lost in Translation? "...due to recently discovered egress* difficulties, lift-dependent visitors will not be able to visit The Moderns exhibition in the First Floor Galleries..." (*Why use an ordinary word when you can use a terrific word like this?) All the same the virtual visit option is great if you can't otherwise get to IMMA. Find it here at: http://imma.gallery-access.com/intl/en/index.php?w_id=2&r_id=&g_id=&a_id=

AND "YAY !" FOR:
Seamus Heaney 's 'Colmcille the Scribe' having been selected for a new collection of Poems on the Underground in London
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/142470-heaney-keats-and-hardy-on-tube.html

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS?

"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other". Anon.

But not for CHIRA members - right? Resolve to contribute to your blog by commenting on something that is in our weekly post or email us your suggestions for sharing with your fellow-CHIRA members .....Deadline: chiradublin@gmail.com before 5pm on Mondays.

Here are this week's offerings:

ONE TO WATCH TONIGHT:
Missed the Metsu Exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland? Have a look at the fictionalised (?) work practices of his rival Vermeer in the film version of Tracey Chevalier's book "Girl with a Pearl Earring" starring Scarlett Johannson and Colin Firth - on the telly at 10pm tonight on BBC Four.

LOTS TO READ:
"Only slaggin'? "- is the Irish arts world too small for objective criticism? Have a look at  Issue 131 of CIRCA on "criticism and criticality"
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwkUVcqj7obvN2Y5NTBiNDQtOGE2Ni00NGRlLThhMmYtNTJhYTZlNDg4YjJk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
You can check out the responses to these essays on CIRCA's site http://www.recirca.com/ or maybe even contribute your own one? Or better still - GET THE DEBATE GOING HERE!

The CHIRA Reading Group meeting will be held in early February. We are currently deciding on an arts-related text from those suggestions submitted by CHIRA members at the inaugural meeting in October. We will circulate the chosen title (it won't be a long text) and members may choose to read it in advance of the meeting.

However, don't worry if you feel you can't commit to additional reading in addition to your current workload - just come along to the meeting where one member has offered to present their response to the text. The aim of this exercise is foster debate and discussion about arts-related texts within the group so you will be able to participate on the basis of the "response" even if you haven't had time to read the text in advance. Further details shortly.

VOTE NOW!: (no it's not THE election yet but there is a link* between politicians and this post...)

The Gentleman's Magazine from 1838 tells us that Ranelagh had just under 2,000 inhabitants and that it was the site of the first manned hot-air * balloon flight by Wicklow-man Richard Crosbie (it was - here's the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwkUVcqj7obvMTM3YjA5MjgtMzhlOS00MTkyLWJjMzgtZDQxZjlkZDAwMjBi&sort=name&layout=list&num=50 (It's also available at http://www.dib.ie)

Have your say on how Dublin City is designed and functions from your perspective by voting in the fourth poll of the Irish Architecture Foundation's web and street project Re-Drawing Dublin
Vote at http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/ on the question Yes or No: "Is Ranelagh Urban?"

 
ARE FUNDING CUTS FOR THE ARTS A FORM OF CULTURE-BASHING? : It's going to be a nail-biting time for recipients of Arts Council of Ireland funding in 2011 with budget cuts for the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport expected to be in the region of €4.5 million. Across the water however things are much worse with cuts of between a third and a half to the budget of Arts Council England : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/04/arts-cuts-devaluation-britain

What kind of relevance do the arts have in any recovery programme for the Irish economy? TELL US WHAT YOU THINK!


REMINDER: IRCHSS POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME OPENS JANUARY 7, 2011:

http://www.irchss.ie/schemes/scheme01/index.html