Sale will paint picture of contemporary art value
Gwen van Embden?s exhibition Genius Loci (a sense of place) is a refreshing prospect. Staged in her attractive Gardens studio off Dunkely Square.
It is not surprising that Gerard Sekoto, Ernest Mancoba and generations of South African artists gravitated towards Paris
His fixation with Nongqawuse, the unruly Xhosa prophetess, is also linked to the way women have been excluded in historical or political narratives.
Land has featured in the artwork of many South African artists. It is an important, and recurring theme in art that distinctively South African.
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.
Changing Faces, a work from Michele Silk?s series, New Eve which looks at selfies.
The Joburg Fringe is not about pushing an anti-Joburg Art Fair agenda or challenging it, it is simply more artist-centric.
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 ...
Luxury designer-fashion stores have become places for viewing and studying objects, writes Mary Corrigall.
Themba Shibase's exhibition at the National Arts Festival doesn't sugar-coat his opinion of politicians.
The debate sparked by Thando Mgqolozana draws attention to all kinds of absences in our society, writes Mary Corrigall.
At Wits University’s Detours festival, the contemporary dance and physical theatre works are presented by a new generation of artists.
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.