For VAN’s summer issue, Joanne Laws and Alan Phelan provide thematic appraisals of the 58th Venice Biennale, while Pamela Lee reports from Art Basel and VOLTA Basel art fairs. This issue includes a number of timely interviews with artists and curators. Chris Clarke speaks to Richard Proffitt about his recent installation May the Moon Rise and the Sun Set, for Cork Midsummer Festival, and Paul McAree interviews Niamh O’Malley, whose exhibition is currently showing in St Carthage Hall, as part of the Lismore Castle Arts programme. Pádraic E. Moore speaks to Annie Fletcher, who has recently been appointed as the Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, while Philip Kavanagh interviews Rua Red Director Maolíosa Boyle about the organisation’s recent exhibitions and collaborations. Manuela Pacella
also interviews Paul O’Neill about his curatorial practice and his artistic directorship at PUBLICS in Helsinki. And much more...
