IRELAND National Gallery of Ireland Merrion Square West Dublin 2 Tel. +353-1-661 5133 Fax. +353 1 661 5372 EMAIL info@ngi.ie WEB www.nationalgallery.ie   IMPRESSIONIST INTERIORS 10 May - 10 August 2008 This summer, the National Gallery of Ireland will present an exhibition on Impressionist Interiors, which will highlight a very different side of Impressionism with examples by well-known artists, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Signac and Cassat. Featuring over 40 paintings and works on paper drawn from the Gallery’s collection alongside loans from important European and US collections, the exhibition will explore how artists used interior spaces as social metaphors. As well as showing interactions with interiors, the exhibition will examine how important the motif of the window was for Impressionist artists. In practical terms, windows, balconies and threshold spaces allowed artists to paint in natural light. However they also served to delineate differences between the public and the private. The accompanying catalogue will be written by Janet McLean, Curator of European Art 1850-1950 (NGI) with contributions by S. Hollis Clayson, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University in California, and Suzanne Singletary, Assistant Professor School of Architecture, University of Philadelphia. Millennium Wing.