The highest price paid for a work by an Irish artist in 2025 was the $1,512,000 secured for Seán Scully’s oil on aluminium painting Landline Dark Blue (2017) at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art ...

He works in mysterious ways.

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Artists and creative professionals are highly educated (86.5% have attained a third level education, compared to 53% in the general population) but earn low-pay. The nature of their work can be a ...

Previously a three-year pilot, Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) scheme will now become permanent following Budget 2026. Report on the successful pilot program found that for every €1 invested ...

The Arts Council will not see a substantial increase in its funding until Prof Niamh Brennan's comprehensive report into the organisation has been completed, Minister for Culture Patrick O'Donovan has ...

The guaranteed €325 a week allowed me to pay myself a living wage to sit at my desk and write my two novels. Now we're asking the Government to retain and expand the scheme President Michael D Higgins ...

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Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

In this video, I share a simplified approach to drawing human anatomy by breaking it down into basic geometric shapes. The method focuses on proportion, structure, and easy-to-understand forms to help ...