Launch night of Double Vision, an exhibition by Young Curators

It is a rare opportunity for young people to get in real contact with an art collection, gain experience working as a curator and to learn about collections and collecting. This is what the Sligo/Antrim Young Curators cross boarder project did. The group curated an interactive social history exhibition; which

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‘…and the Oscar goes to…’

Out of the nine titles nominated for Best Picture for 2012 Oscars, The Model Cinema has screened four. This includes The Artist and The Descendants which are being screened 22 – 29 February. Other contenders include Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which were

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Shame opens tonight at The Model

Much has been written about visual artist, Steve McQueen’s latest feature film, Shame. The story of thirty something, New York, sex addict Brandon Sullivan, the film is an unflinching portrayal of the nature of addiction. Shame has certainly been garnering a lot of media attention in recent weeks, most of

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