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 ...