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Gwen van Embden?s exhibition Genius Loci (a sense of place) is a refreshing prospect. Staged in her attractive Gardens studio off Dunkely Square.
His fixation with Nongqawuse, the unruly Xhosa prophetess, is also linked to the way women have been excluded in historical or political narratives.
Art historians such as Juliette Leeb-du Toit, point to the obsession with the landscape as one tied to politics and establishing nationhood.
Her fixation with historical artefacts is perhaps not unexpected given she lost her belongings.
He has settled on a vocabulary and aesthetic that chimes with these times though its lines extend back in time.
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.
The scale of his drawings ensures a visual and undeniable emotive impact ? our nostalgic attachment to the African veld.
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 ...
Few people get to work in an office alongside a painting that could be worth R16 million.
Stepping into Robyn Penn’s exhibition is a celestial experience as you find yourself surrounded by depictions of clouds.
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 ...
“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 ...
“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 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 ...
Themba Shibase's exhibition at the National Arts Festival doesn't sugar-coat his opinion of politicians.
Given that the Rhodes statue is an artwork, it would be quite suitably cannibalised by artists, says Mary Corrigall.
Digital overloading sees more people opting out of the social media treadmill, writes Mary Corrigall.
Glitz and glamour abound as Cape Town plays host to the world’s biggest horse races
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. ...
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 ...