{"id":2782,"date":"2018-06-03T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2018-06-11T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:25:56","slug":"the-art-of-darkness-194-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-art-of-darkness-194-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of darkness (194, June 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a very successful outing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dublincastle.ie\/\">Dublin Castle<\/a> in April, we&#8217;re back in the big gaff in the heart of the capital on Saturday June 30 for another event.<\/p>\n<p>As the hugely successful\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artandthegreathunger.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>exhibition draws\u00a0to a close at Dublin Castle, this discussion will look at the dark art around tragedies and disaster. How does art capture the horror of these situations? Is the role of the artist to document what has occurred or produce another perspective? How does the work impact not just on the audience but the artist as well?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2790\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2-1024x363.jpg\" alt=\"Websitebanner2018_2\" width=\"584\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2-1024x363.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2-500x177.jpg 500w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Websitebanner2018_2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The panel:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ie.linkedin.com\/in\/niamh-o-sullivan-aa31956b\">Niamh O&#8217;Sullivan <\/a>(Professor Emeritus at National College of Art and Design and curator of <em>Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger<\/em>), <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gillianmobrien\">Gillian O&#8217;Brien<\/a> (historian at Liverpool John Moores University and dark tourism specialist), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscouncil.ie\/about\/Council-Members\/Brian-Maguire\/\">Brian Maguire<\/a> (artist whose work is featured in the exhibition) and\u00a0guests<\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: this discussion will take place at Dublin Castle on Saturday June 30 at noon. Tickets are now available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/banter-discussion-dark-art-tickets-46571493591#tickets\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a very successful outing at Dublin Castle in April, we&#8217;re back in the big gaff in the heart of the capital on Saturday June 30 for another event. As the hugely successful\u00a0Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger\u00a0exhibition draws\u00a0to a close at Dublin Castle, this discussion will look at the dark art around tragedies &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-art-of-darkness-194-june-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The art of darkness (194, June 2018)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}