Obama and the Arts: Hoping for a New Dawn

First Published: The Irish Times, January 22, 2009
AS PRESIDENTIAL portraits go, it’s a change – no surprise there. But the portrait of the US’s brand-new president, unveiled last weekend at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, represents a departure from form radical enough to raise the eyebrow of even the most slogan-weary watcher of [...]

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Arthur Miller’s Family Secret

First Published: The Irish Times, August 18, 2007
THE EULOGIES were eloquent, emotional, intense. They told of a life and of an art remarkable for its integrity, for its commitment to empathy and to truth; they showed a man and a writer battling against social and political injustice, against dishonesty, against discrimination. Arthur Miller was “the [...]

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