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  • Now for the North

    Immersive play at The MAC takes audiences on a journey around abortion rights

    Comprised of 12 scenes and an installation, Now For The North explores the subject from a wide variety of women's perspectives, explains the Artistic Director of Three’s Theatre Company, Anna Leckey
  • Fifty Shades of Grey

    Fifty Shades of Shame

    Joanne Savage on why she will be avoiding cinemas this weekend as Sam Taylor-Johnson's steamy adaptation of the EL James book starring Jamie Dornan hits theatres
  • Salome

    Salome

    Strauss, Oscar Wilde and Northern Ireland Opera combine in a sexy, dangerous and accessible production at Belfast's Grand Opera House
  • 5th Province

    The Fifth Province

    Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre remake the rules of choreography for a daring work exploring Irish mythology at The MAC
  • Michael Longley

    Michael Longley's Cultural Life

    Following the announcement that he is to receive the freedom of Belfast, read an archive Q&A with the acclaimed poet

  • Eimear McBride on A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

    'Publishers should stop patronising readers.' The new author on the remarkable success of her experimental debut novel

  • MAC International

    Joanne Savage appreciates flashes of brilliance at The MAC but hopes for greater thrills in future

  • Crossing the Water

    Jeffrey Morgan exhibits 40 years' worth of canvases capturing his wife, author Patricia Craig, in thought

  • Where Are They Now?

    Bill Kirk traces the trajectory of Belfast residents originally photographed in the 1970s and 80s

  • Palimpsest

    An inventive contemporary musing on the fraught nexus between past and present at the Golden Thread Gallery

  • Kin

    Richard Gorman's meaningless abstract paintings with a Japanese bent leave Joanne Savage flabbergasted

  • Idir Dhá Aigne

    Michael Doherty and John Stewart present two very different visions of Belfast at An Culturlann

  • One City One Book 2014

    Author David Park on the 'feminist impulse' behind The Poets' Wives, the focus of a month-long reading initiative

  • Abstract Armature

    Simon McWilliams focuses on Belfast's architectural rebirth in his first show in the city for two decades

  • Kara Walker

    Californian multi-disciplinary artist confronts American slave history with this endlessly inventive exhibition at The MAC

  • In Darkness and Secure Baroque Exhibition

    Artist Andrew Haslett explains the Baroque influences behind his new exhibition of paintings in Cregagh Library

  • Between Two Worlds

    This exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings at the FE McWilliam Gallery is 'uplifting to behold'

  • The Air They Capture is Different

    Sculptural exhibition in The MAC is 'subtle to the point of obfuscation', but Lothar Götz's mural saves the day

  • Reflections on Costume

    Joanne Savage considers how 'body fascism keeps women worrying' after a visit to the Ulster Museum

  • Ten Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

    'A brief but completely enthralling glimpse into the workings of the effervescent mind of a true genius'

  • Fiona Henry Paints The Mournes and More

    County Down artist finds inspiration in nature – and paints an unlikely portrait

  • May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland

    Author Sophia Hillan on the three women whose lives repeated the passions and travails of their aunt's novels

  • Hannah Starkey

    An exhibition of photographs that capture the heart and show the city in a hopeful light

  • Bible Talk With Melvyn Bragg

    Ahead of his Ulster Museum lecture, Lord Bragg discusses the positive impact of the King James Bible

  • Cara Dillon Plays Homecoming Gig

    With a new album to promote, the Dungiven songstress looks forward to the 'therapy' of live performance

  • Into the Black

    Neil Shawcross and Charles Walsh paint it black at the Ormeau Baths Gallery

  • Disconnected Everyday Tension

    The poses and Sartean emptiness appeal to Joanne Savage, but she still isn't sure what to make of the woodlice

  • Lionel Shriver Reporting on The Troubles

    The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin speaks with Joanne Savage about how 'we can all still end well'  

  • Around Oz on a Triumph

    Motorheads Geoff Hill and Colin O’Carroll zoomed around Australia on a pair of Triumphs and captured the adventure in a new travel memoir

  • What Would Helen Mirren Do?

    A supermarket attendant lives by the example of the Oscar-winning actress

  • Why The Arts Matter: Haiti Lives

    A photographic exhibition in Belfast's Waterfront Hall, organised by Oxfam, aims to raise awareness and aid the recovery in Haiti

  • Ulster's Underground Caravaggio

    Artist Andrew Haslett revisits Renaissance techniques in his religious paintings. He tells Joanne Savage about being inspired by the bible and the baroque

  • Armagh Poet Foresaw Irish Crash

    Peter Makem on predicting the demise of the Celtic Tiger and remembering the 'Ireland of the Light'

  • In View

    Joanne Savage finds narrow ideals of beauty under clever scrutiny at the Golden Thread Gallery

  • Miracle Fruit

    Newtownards poet Moyra Donaldson engages with Enlightenment ideals in her fourth collection

  • Why The Arts Matter: Art As Therapy

    Joanne Savage found solace in creativity during a troubled childhood

  • An Appointment With Mr Yeats

    The best music Mike Scott has produced since Fisherman's Blues

  • Shadow Play

    An accomplished exploration of the 'actual and the apparent' at Belfast Exposed, writes Joanne Savage

  • Trilogy

    A defiant feminist response to a culture of body hatred

  • Colin Middleton

    On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a new exhibition explores the artist's inventive approach to place and landscape
  • Helen Lewis

    A Time To Speak

    One woman's remarkable story of surviving Auschwitz through friendship, determination, luck and dance

  • Art Beyond Ulster

    A wide range of Ulster artwork produced in Rome

  • Animal Farm

    As Guy Masterson prepares to perform his one-man adaptation of Animal Farm for the last time, he tells Joanne Savage about its enduring relevance

  • The Auditor

    County Tyrone writer Francis Hagan mixes sci-fi elements and apocalyptic vision in his debut novel with almost Orwellian results, argues Joanne Savage

  • An Appointment With Mr Yeats

    The Waterboys frontman has set Yeats’s poetry to music and tells Joanne Savage about being radical with the Irishman’s lyrics

  • Collusion

    Markethill master of the crime thriller Stuart Neville delivers another gruesome page-turner, writes Joanne Savage

  • The Killer Inside Me

    Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1952 noir novel has been roundly criticised for its scenes of excessive violence. Joanne Savage asks if the on-screen brutality can be justified

  • Jewesbury & O'Beirn

    Joanne Savage is less than impressed on a stroll through Belfast Exposed

  • Bernie Brown

    Photographer Bernie Brown talks to Joanne Savage about capturing the landscape and mood of Strangford Lough with her wily lens

  • Under Milk Wood

    One-man production of Dylan Thomas’s masterpiece brilliantly discombobulates, writes Joanne Savage

  • Videocracy

    Showing at the QFT this week, Videocracy explores the unfreedom of the media and the chauvinism of pop culture in Berlusconi’s Italy

  • Columbo: Prescription Murder

    Dirk Benedict, better known as Face from The A-Team, prepares to play Columbo in Belfast. Joanne Savage caught up with the former soldier of fortune

  • Ancient Values

    Joanne Savage enjoys a Renaissance of fine art at Gormley's

  • King of Country

    Howard Wright is wonderfully irreverent in his first poetry collection, writes Joanne Savage
  • Rita Duffy

    Rita Duffy

    'Damien Hirst is a complete charlatan.' Belfast's busiest artist on makes good art, cultural courage and why it is more important to journey than arrive