Tom Lordan
@tomlordan.bsky.social
Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
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Tom Lordan
@tomlordan.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Wrote a catalogue essay for Cian McLoughlin's incredible 'Zero Is An Even Number' at the Molesworth Gallery. McLoughlin's arresting style is always evolving, though aesthetic and conceptual themes connect each stage of practice.
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
Full essay: www.cianmcloughlin.com/news/40-tom-...
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To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
hyperallergic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the pleasure of being ignored.”
I wrote about Alan Butler's newest exhibition ASSETS at the Green On Red Gallery. A contemporary alchemist, Butler creates technological imaginaries, bringing unseen global civilisational forces alive. Spellbinding.
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
With Assets, Alan Butler challenges the forces of predatory capitalism
One of Ireland’s most technologically sophisticated artists renders tangible the virtual realities that underlie 21st-century economies
www.irishtimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote about Alan Butler's newest exhibition ASSETS at the Green On Red Gallery. A contemporary alchemist, Butler creates technological imaginaries, bringing unseen global civilisational forces alive. Spellbinding.
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
@alanbutler.info #assets @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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This year’s Dublin Gallery Weekend is in full swing with over forty galleries, including the RHA, taking part across the city.
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This year’s Dublin Gallery Weekend is in full swing with over forty galleries, including the RHA, taking part across the city.
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
See dublingalleryweekend.ie for more.
On view for DGW here at the RHA 👀
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Japanese poster for Ingmar Bergman's THE RITE (1969)
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Japanese poster for Ingmar Bergman's THE RITE (1969)
My latest review for @irishtimes.com is online. This week's focus is Corban Walker's #RESIST at @solomonfineart.bsky.social. The acclaimed, Cork-based artist continues to exercise his long-standing preoccupation with structure, scale, utility and proportion.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
RESIST: between structure and entropy, Corban Walker’s sculptures resist their own annihilation
The accomplished artist continues to explore long-standing preoccupations into structure, scale, utility and proportion
www.irishtimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My latest review for @irishtimes.com is online. This week's focus is Corban Walker's #RESIST at @solomonfineart.bsky.social. The acclaimed, Cork-based artist continues to exercise his long-standing preoccupation with structure, scale, utility and proportion.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Today we commemorate the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the most original voices in contemporary philosophy of technology.
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Sunrise in the Pyrenees
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Sunrise in the Pyrenees
Latest review for @irishtimes.com was on Ella Bertilsson's Slippery Like Mango Juice at the #Horse gallery on Bethesda Place, around the corner from the #HughLane.
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Ella Bertilsson: Slippery Like Mango Juice review – Violence simmers below a playful surface
Ella Bertilsson’s work oscillates between pointed satire and reflections on social isolation
www.irishtimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Latest review for @irishtimes.com was on Ella Bertilsson's Slippery Like Mango Juice at the #Horse gallery on Bethesda Place, around the corner from the #HughLane.
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Violence simmered below the playful surface, along with ruminations on dislocation, alienation.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Saw PTA's new film One Battle After Another yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it, though I'd like to see it again - hard to wrap my head around it. Some intriguing resonances with Aster's satire Eddington. An unusual narrative form: it wasn't a journey, it wasn't episodic...
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Saw PTA's new film One Battle After Another yesterday. Definitely enjoyed it, though I'd like to see it again - hard to wrap my head around it. Some intriguing resonances with Aster's satire Eddington. An unusual narrative form: it wasn't a journey, it wasn't episodic...
"If one wishes to label me 'analytic', I will accept it only with the clarification that mine is a special form."
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Sein und Nichts - der Philosoph Lorenz Bruno Puntel im Gespräch
YouTube video by Loyola Productions Munich - Visualizing Minds
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"If one wishes to label me 'analytic', I will accept it only with the clarification that mine is a special form."
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Lorenz Puntel in 2022.
#philsky #structureandbeing
youtu.be/YyuTwa1XtJA?...
Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Helen Blake: Let the Rules Be Soft review – An absorbing, unmissable exhibition
Visual art: At the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin, Helen Blake’s immediately recognisable paintings are profoundly compelling
www.irishtimes.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Latest @irishtimes.com review is centred on the @helengblake.bsky.social beautiful exhibition Let The Rules Be Soft.
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
I discuss Blake's process of stratification and structured absences, the human and the inhuman, and her evocation of the transcendental.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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The opening talk of this year’s Boole Lectures in Philosophy will be delivered by Prof. Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)
Title: Unreasonable Agents in the Digital Era
Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room | Wednesday, September 17th, 1600-1800
Everybody is welcome!
Title: Unreasonable Agents in the Digital Era
Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room | Wednesday, September 17th, 1600-1800
Everybody is welcome!
September 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The opening talk of this year’s Boole Lectures in Philosophy will be delivered by Prof. Roberta Sala (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy)
Title: Unreasonable Agents in the Digital Era
Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room | Wednesday, September 17th, 1600-1800
Everybody is welcome!
Title: Unreasonable Agents in the Digital Era
Venue and time: CACSSS Seminar Room | Wednesday, September 17th, 1600-1800
Everybody is welcome!
I contributed a catalogue essay to Karen Ebb's exhibition An Outer Reflection Of An Inner Reality, which opened in Dun Laoghaire's #Municipal Gallery last night.
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I contributed a catalogue essay to Karen Ebb's exhibition An Outer Reflection Of An Inner Reality, which opened in Dun Laoghaire's #Municipal Gallery last night.
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I referenced Hilma af Klint, Goethe, and Bridget Riley as useful touchstones for understanding the artist's work.
karenebbs.com
I visited the opening of @helengblake.bsky.social 's phenomenal Let The Rules Be Soft at the #Molesworth Gallery during the week. Exquisite, visually inventive, phenomenologically rich abstract painting. Really looking forward to writing my review - so much to grapple with!
#helenblake
#helenblake
September 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I visited the opening of @helengblake.bsky.social 's phenomenal Let The Rules Be Soft at the #Molesworth Gallery during the week. Exquisite, visually inventive, phenomenologically rich abstract painting. Really looking forward to writing my review - so much to grapple with!
#helenblake
#helenblake
For my latest review in @irishtimes.com, I covered the Kevin Kavanagh gallery's #TrueColour exhibition. Including an early Evie Hone, this is an impressive collection of contemporary abstract painting, ranging across several distinct styles & visual genres.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
True Colour review: A stirring group show devoted to the profundity of abstraction
Visual art: Including an early work by Evie Hone, this impressive collection ranges across styles and genres of abstract painting
www.irishtimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
For my latest review in @irishtimes.com, I covered the Kevin Kavanagh gallery's #TrueColour exhibition. Including an early Evie Hone, this is an impressive collection of contemporary abstract painting, ranging across several distinct styles & visual genres.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
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Kant! Kant!! KANT!!! Those who love Kant are going to love our latest issue, which is chock full of Königsberg's most famous son. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky
September 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Kant! Kant!! KANT!!! Those who love Kant are going to love our latest issue, which is chock full of Königsberg's most famous son. academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics... #philsky
I really enjoyed this short article by Theo Belci in #ArtForum. Fascinating insight into Dean Kissick's public 'Seaport Talks' on contemporary art in 2023-24, via a discussion of this subsequent essay collection.
www.artforum.com/columns/seap...
www.artforum.com/columns/seap...
Little Red Book
What Is Contemporary Art for Today? collects twenty-five responses to the titular question, with essays by artists, writers, and critics.
www.artforum.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I really enjoyed this short article by Theo Belci in #ArtForum. Fascinating insight into Dean Kissick's public 'Seaport Talks' on contemporary art in 2023-24, via a discussion of this subsequent essay collection.
www.artforum.com/columns/seap...
www.artforum.com/columns/seap...
August 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Review of Uilinn's #Grá exhibition, in Skibbereen, West Cork. Online now for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
Grá review: Art drawn from the Crawford collection celebrates love in all its forms
At Uillinn, in west Co Cork, the artist collective Salt & Pepper and the curator Michael Waldron team up to foreground queer identity and romance
www.irishtimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Review of Uilinn's #Grá exhibition, in Skibbereen, West Cork. Online now for @irishtimes.com
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...
I reviewed From A Low And Quiet Sea, a theatrical adaptation of Donal Ryan's novel, for @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social.
Some great performances, though I felt the monologues became a little repetitive.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
Some great performances, though I felt the monologues became a little repetitive.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
From a Low and Quiet Sea review: Excellent performances, but this Donal Ryan adaptation has taken a big risk
The novelist has an ability to connect Ireland’s historical roots with its modern realities, but the multiple monologues of his story can struggle on a bare stage
www.irishtimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
I reviewed From A Low And Quiet Sea, a theatrical adaptation of Donal Ryan's novel, for @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social.
Some great performances, though I felt the monologues became a little repetitive.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
Some great performances, though I felt the monologues became a little repetitive.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...
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RP2.18: New issue out now!
Sita Balani on culture wars
Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction'
Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags'
Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP
Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
radicalphilosophy.com
Sita Balani on culture wars
Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction'
Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags'
Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP
Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
radicalphilosophy.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
RP2.18: New issue out now!
Sita Balani on culture wars
Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction'
Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags'
Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP
Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
radicalphilosophy.com
Sita Balani on culture wars
Verónica Gago on the 'fascistisation of social reproduction'
Sophie Lewis on 'fag hags'
Bill Cashmore on the closure of CRMEP
Dossier on the life and work of Marina Vishmidt
radicalphilosophy.com
Martin Parr, at random, has so many absolute belters.
April 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Martin Parr, at random, has so many absolute belters.