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A busy weekend – Project Brand New and Free Art Friday

A couple of things have caught my eye recently that have one thing in common – they are ridiculously cheap or free, brimful of creativity and enthusiasm, and staged by volunteers.
This weekend you can put the finishing touches to your piece of art, ready to submit on Monday to the collective show of peacock philanthropy [...]

Bootboy: Leonardo and the Codex Leicester

Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. One of his great works, the notebook called the Codex Leicester, is on display in Dublin at the moment. I went along to re-acquaint myself with a man I haven’t really considered since school, and I found myself in [...]