Irish Art at IMMA

A series of exhibitions by leading Irish and international artists, including Jasper Johns, Laurie Anderson, Dorothy Cross and Tony O'Malley; special shows to celebrate the work of the White Stag Group and to mark 50 years of collecting by the Contemporary Irish Art Society, and the publication of a full colour catalogue of the IMMA collection are all part of an exciting and wide ranging programme for 2005 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art announced by the Minister for Arts John O'Donoghue, TD. Irish and Irish based artists will have a particularly strong presence in 2005. The first large-scale survey of the internationally-acclaimed Irish artist Dorothy Cross will open on 25 May comprising sculpture, installation, performance, photography and film, it will review her work from the 1980s to date. This will be followed on 26 October by a major retrospective of the work of the much loved Irish painter Tony O'Malley, now recognised as one of the leading Irish artists of his time, who died in 2003. For the full story - click the title Irish Art