What is the real value of Ayanda Mabulu’s art?

Mary Corrigall|Published

Sale will paint picture of contemporary art value

Artist Van Embden creates novel way to find her sense of place

Mary Corrigall|Published

Gwen van Embden?s exhibition Genius Loci (a sense of place) is a refreshing prospect. Staged in her attractive Gardens studio off Dunkely Square.

Athi-Patra Ruga: Getting to grips with notion of a Rainbow Nation

Mary Corrigall|Published

His fixation with Nongqawuse, the unruly Xhosa prophetess, is also linked to the way women have been excluded in historical or political narratives.

Pierneef's works and other landscapes on auction

Mary Corrigall|Published

Art historians such as Juliette Leeb-du Toit, point to the obsession with the landscape as one tied to politics and establishing nationhood.

Shany van den Berg: An artist emerges out of the fires from her past

Mary Corrigall|Published

Her fixation with historical artefacts is perhaps not unexpected given she lost her belongings.

Urbanski: Fixated on artificial art from all abstract angles

Mary Corrigall|Published

He has settled on a vocabulary and aesthetic that chimes with these times though its lines extend back in time.

Elements of Realism exhibition review: Transported to another realm

Mary Corrigall|Published

It is easy to see why this painter chose to represent this bucolic setting, which is the head-turner at the Elements of Realism exhibition.

Themba Khumalo exhibition: Hovering on edge of darkness

Mary Corrigall|Published

The scale of his drawings ensures a visual and undeniable emotive impact ? our nostalgic attachment to the African veld.

Let the bidding wars begin

Mary Corrigall|Published

Two people who will never meet or see each other will engage in a nail-biting online bidding battle for candlesticks, or any other desirable object, on one of Strauss ...

National treasures on auction

Mary Corrigall|Published

Few people get to work in an office alongside a painting that could be worth R16 million.

It's all Penn-ed in the clouds

Mary Corrigall|Published

Stepping into Robyn Penn’s exhibition is a celestial experience as you find yourself surrounded by depictions of clouds.

Circa embraces whimsical, factual art

Mary Corrigall|Published

Testament to the manner in which the creative economy is expanding and flourishing new galleries open all the time, however a large one located in an historical ...

Bright ‘Sounds of a Free Soul’

Mary Corrigall|Published

“EVERYONE looked at me like I deserved not to be born,” recalls Lizette Chirrme of her childhood. The Mozambican artist, whose exhibition A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta ...

Collaged photo cut-outs

Mary Corrigall|Published

“I FEEL repulsed by images of African masks,” observes Larita Engelbrecht. The young artist laughs, knowing it to be a most unlikely statement for her to make, given ...

The cult of beauty

Mary Corrigall|Published

THE third wave of feminism hasn’t been too different to the second; women are again growing their underarm hair. Only this time they are dying it shocking colours ...

Meet the Post Apartheid Chief Gangster

Mary Corrigall|Published

Themba Shibase's exhibition at the National Arts Festival doesn't sugar-coat his opinion of politicians.

Artists best placed to tackle statues

Mary Corrigall|Published

Given that the Rhodes statue is an artwork, it would be quite suitably cannibalised by artists, says Mary Corrigall.

Braving digital detox

Mary Corrigall|Published

Digital overloading sees more people opting out of the social media treadmill, writes Mary Corrigall.

Dress fillies divert attention from horses

Mary Corrigall|Published

Glitz and glamour abound as Cape Town plays host to the world’s biggest horse races

Going native

Mary Corrigall|Published

If there ever was a road to nowhere this is it. The infamous unfinished Eastern Boulevard freeway ends abruptly, challenging, mocking the function of the highway. ...

‘Us versus them’ – Miyeni’s mental apartheid

Mary Corrigall|Published

Eric Miyeni’s vitriolic Sowetan column brought to mind what must have been George W Bush’s most, and possibly only, powerful aphorism: “You are either with us, or ...