A Belfast artist who won a commission to paint a portrait of Graham Norton for a national display has discovered he is also the TV presenter's third cousin.
Drawings by Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Picasso feature alongside contemporary artists in a new exhibition from the British Museum that opens at the Ulster Museum today.
The principal guest conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen, made a welcome return to the Ulster Hall on Friday with music by English composers.
One sure way of filling the Ulster Hall for a classical concert is to stage two masterpieces in one programme, and that's what happened on Friday evening.
What could the women in Shakespeare's plays learn from each other? Two actresses bounce from character to character and scene to scene. Can one woman's advice stop the other doing something stupid? Would they be happier (and less dead) if they just dumped their men?...
Expect to see some of the most exceptional masterworks from the Arts Council Collection in London, the UK's most widely-seen selection of modern and contemporary art.
One of the highlights of the Ulster Orchestra's 50th anniversary season was the presence of Yan Pascal Tortelier, one of its most distinguished conductors, on the podium for a Friday night programme of English and French composers.
Playwright Rosemary Jenkinson is talking about the first time she realised putting her thoughts down on paper could be a risky business. "I kept a diary from the age of eight up until the age of 13," she reveals, "when one of my fellow boarders at Friends School in...
It's dominated the box office and now Fifty Shades of Grey is reportedly hoping to whip the West End and Broadway into a frenzy.
The annual Viennese concert requires a skilful balance between old favourites, and less familiar music.
Belfast's Grand Opera House has been dealt a blow after its newly appointed chairman said he was standing down just weeks after assuming the role.
Susan's work is bright, even magical, and many of the images she chooses to paint are inspired by the fairytale surroundings of Rostrevor; the mountains, the sea, the wonderful light and the reflections.
A distinct festive spirit filled an Ulster Hall bedecked with Christmas trees for this early afternoon performance on Thursday.
A retired senior civil servant has been appointed as the new chairman of the Ulster Orchestra.
Director Paul Bosco McEneaney has bypassed Disney and returned to the original 19th century tale of the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy for Cahoots NI's Christmas show.
In the company of the poet John Montague, who died in Nice on Saturday, aged 87, one was immediately in touch not only with the forbidding tradition of Irish letters from Thomas Moore to James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Davis, Samuel Ferguson; through Yeats...
The artist Helen Marten has scooped a £25,000 jackpot after she was named winner of the 2016 Turner Prize.
It's a tale as old as time - but where else would you see May McFettridge soaring across the stage on a flying Moon?
Jeffrey Archer likes to think he has just made a 102-year-old Irish woman very happy. Last month, he sent her an advance copy of This Was A Man, the final book in his seven-volume series The Clifton Chronicles. Her family had emailed to tell him she was completely...
A new mural by commercial street artist Visual Waste has appeared on the roof of Belfast's new Bullitt hotel.
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