Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London is to be Led by Jean-Michel Basquiat’s altarpiece to an artist & a joyful cubist still-life by Pablo Picasso alongside artworks by Paula Rego.

“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld. He did not know where to seek it or how: but a premonition which led him on ...

Step into the intricate world of James Joyce's literature, where language bends, narratives shift, and hidden depths await., ...

Margaret Nolan, Director of Grá Festival, explains: “Nora Barnacle was James Joyce’s muse, his great love, and an essential ...

3. For the manuscript analysis : Rodney Wilson Owen, James Joyce and the Beginnings of Ulysses, Essex, 1983, A Walton Litz, The Art of James Joyce, New York, 1961, Michael Groden, Ulysses in Focus ...

James Joyce was a rather more filial son than Stephen ... the attitude of Icarus--the classical posture of flight, the artist's revulsion from his middle-class environment, the youthful effort ...

10/10 Stephen sloughs off the ties of his life in Ireland to pursue the life of an artist.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce . . . is a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss. Its claim to be literature is as good as the claim of the last ...