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Obviously. Now who's next? Or more pointedly, who will play there, other than Village People, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent and a few other lost/pernicious dinosaurs?

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Yikes!

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Incoming: New standard by which to measure infamy.

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Jean Nouvel: investigation into the millions of euros lost by the “starchitect” agency I think they might need at least one more set of scare quotes there.

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But is it worth it? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJ84xG5/ #severance #nerdingout

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these are the kind of moves that'll eventually move the needle towards shifting power away from tech oligarchs

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The Naturalist's Bookshelf "Drawn From Nature" | Culture File Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on his shelf of nature books celebrates the undersung—and unsung—work of Irish nature artists.

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Sea Salt, Turpentine and various flowers | Culture File Italian-Colombian composer, Caterina Schembri on the images and substances behind her new album, Sea Salt & Turpentine.

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Culture File: A Day in The Life of J.S. Bach Composer Gerry Murphy on a day in the life of Kapellmeister of Thomaskirche, Leipzig: the industrious Herr Bach.

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Culture File "Likes": Róis Singer, composer and Irish wake enthusiast, Róis, on a few of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

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The Naturalist's Bookshelf "Windfall" | Culture File Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for inclusion on the Naturalist's Bookshelf is Windfall, an anthology of Irish nature poetry edited by Jane Clarke.

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The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File Tadhg O'Sullivan remembers his initiation into the horrors of nuclear armageddon via the 80s BBC TV program, Threads.

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There's more to Charles Aznavour than "She". This for example, as featured in this week's Culture File, part of the soundtrack of Nan Goldin's This Will Not End Well, as encountered in Berlin by Orit Gat. @RTElyricfm 6.30pm, Saturday & via pod. Like/subscribe, y'all. open.spotify.com/track/4MpSlG...

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Culture File Presents: The Comfort Zone Mulholland Drive: Anna Kornbluh ("Immediacy") joins Luke Clancy to wave Colm Tóibín off on a journey out of his comfort zone, and into David Lynch's mysterious, melancholic drift into Hollywood's dream machine/mincer.

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The Culture File Weekly 080225: The Square Tomato and The Third Kingdom Artist-farmer Lisa Fingleton's new exhibition takes its title from a sci-fi fruit: The Square Tomato; "corn smut" at The Third Kingdom mushroom-based restaurant in New York; and Paddy Woodworth finds a place for Olivia Laing ...

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The Culture File Debate: Breath The Culture File Debate on breath, from the need for breathable air to states of mind and body rooted in breath. Featuring IMMA's Mary Cremin; artist and climate change activist, Nina McGowan; Ireland's next Venice Biennale representative, Isabel Nolan; and Ian Rob...

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The Culture File Weekly: Cicada Safari A "double emergence" of two broods of periodical cicadas near Springfield, Illinois for the first time in more than 200 years inspired a band of sound recordists, musicians, poets, composers and entomologists to gather beneath the trees to listen, record and...

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The Culture File Weekly: All the Rembrandts In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we're in Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn. The Rijksmuseum puts on display every one of its Rembrandt holdings; a treasure through which...

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The Culture File Debate x Beta Festival Recorded live at Beta Festival '24 in Dublin's Liberties, The Culture File Debate brings together artists Basil Al-Rawi and Conan McIvor, researcher Dr Autumn Brown and historian Ciaran Wallace to explore how we preserve and reimagine our cultural archives ...

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The Culture File Weekly: Dublin's Hallelujah Walking a few momentous blocks of Dublin on the scent of a constellation of chancers, charities, literal bigwigs, choristers and 18th century It Girls that somehow resulted in the Irish capital being the venue for the premiere of Handel's Messiah.

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The Fingal Mummers | Culture File The Irish Institute of Music and Song in Balbriggan's "Pathway to the Well" offer children in North County Dublin experiences of Irish music and tradition, such as The Fingal Mummers, who recently brought their mischievous musical theatrics to the children of Bal...

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The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File Fairy tales, they're not just for kids you know, suggests Tadhg O'Sullivan in his latest Cloud of Unknowing.

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Wìngéd Muses: The Swift | Culture File A taste of our forthcoming Culture File Debate: Wìngéd Muses, for which we asked some of our favourite writers—Orit Gat, Sara Baume, The Naturalist, Paddy Woodworth and John Banville—to speak to us about a bird they cherish. Here, John Banville puts in a goo...

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The Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures How do artists capture the limitless beauty and complexity of the natural world? Paddy Woodworth chairs a panel of image-makers, featuring Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane, Killian Mullarney and Yanny Petters, recorded live at the National Botanic Gardens as p...

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Culture File "Likes": Renata Pekowska Artist and perception wrangler, Renata Pekowska, on a few of her favourite things, which include a book about religious relics and the smell of tomato vines.

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Cartoon Networking | Culture File Conversations, impressions and quick sketches from this year's Galway Cartoon Festival, in cartoonist Caoimhe Lavelle's festival notebook.

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Seeing The Emergency | Culture File As a taster for this week's Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures, Paddy Woodworth asks his panel of nature image-makers - Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane, Killian Mullarney and Yanny Petters - about the effects of the climate emergency on their work and their lives.

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Magic and Hyper-Reality | Culture File VR visionary, Curtis Hickman, on how even good old-fashioned legerdemain can teach a creator about working with the "hyper-reality" of VR storytelling.

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The Naturalist's Bookshelf "The Signature of All Things" | Culture File Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for his ideal shelf of nature books is The Signature Of All Things by 'Eat, Pray, Love' author, Elizabeth Gilbert.

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The Culture File Weekly 071224: Pain, Fog, halleluiah Conductor and researcher, Peter Whelan on what we're still learning about Handel in Dublin; Orit Gat attempts to see Monet in London through the fog, and artist, Rada Iva Sibila on working with pain.

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Culture File "Likes": Till Holzapfel Neuroscientist and cyberdelic evangelist, Till Holzapfel, on some of his favourite things, including Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Magic Mountain and the smell behind his dogs ears.

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Sound, mind, body | Culture File Among the ingredients for Rada Iva Sibila sound installations are the Zagreb artist's spoken words, captured as she experiences the pain of arthritis. Image credit: Serhii Shapoval @photo_by_shapoval

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Orit Gat's Voice Notes | Culture File Is it possible to see once-breathtaking images from Monet or Van Gogh at all now? Orit Gat gives it a go at two current London shows from the Modernist mainstays.

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What Did Handel's Messiah Sound Like? | Culture File What did George Frideric Handel hear at the Messiah's first performance in Dublin in 1743? Irish Baroque Orchestra's Peter Whelan turns his attention to the composer's little giant.

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A Return To Fishamble Street | Culture File Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (4/4)

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The Culture File Weekly 301124: On the trail of the probably German writer behind The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Tadhg O'Sulllivan, the art of playing the violin while reciting verse with soloist, Larissa O'Grady; an unorthodox way of finding a bed for the night in a new Irish short film, ...

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Culture File "Likes": Composer, John McLachlan shares some of his favourite things, which include all six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle, and that perennial scent choice, the smell turf.

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Room Taken | Culture File A couch-surfing homeless immigrant who doesn’t know his luck encounters a blind woman who doesn't know he's there, in director TJ O'Grady-Peyton's Room Taken.

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At The Art Cabin | Culture File Culture File makes a studio visit to the "Art Cabin" at Brother Russell House in Limerick City.

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The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File Tadhg O'Sullivan's latest journey into the cloud attempts to follow the elusive author of The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, B. Traven.

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A Return To Fishamble Street | Culture File Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (3/4)

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The Culture File Weekly 231124: Cold Snap Edition At IMMA, an audio guide provides a platform for kids' takes on contemporary art; uilleann piper, Cillian Vallely teams up with Fidelio Quarter for what you might call a contemporary classical/trad crossover... if you dared; and the brain candy of ...

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Culture File "Likes": Timothy Brock Some of the good things as rated by composer, Timothy Brock, including Vincenzo Lamagna's re-score for Akram Khan's Giselle, and a certain bowl of pasta-ragu you might find in Trattoria Serghei in Bologna.

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Everything You Can Learn About Contemporary Art From A 7-Year-Old | Culture File Kids offer the insights for a new audio guide at IMMA's "Take a Breath" exhibition.

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The Piper and The Painter | Culture File The musical paintings of John B. Vallely inspire a series of works by Irish composers for Fidelio Trio and uilleann piper Cillian Vallely to perform together.

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Cosmic Sugar, Brain Candy, Cyberdelics | Culture File At Berlin's Games Ground gaming festival, Cyberdelic technologists and researchers demo some of their immersive wares, such as Squingle, Syndelica, Cosmic Sugar and Brain Candy.

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