It is with great sadness that The Art Times has learnt of Dot Dickson's passing last Sunday morning. Dot was an amazing and kindly woman who together with Bruce and Pippa made the Deckle Edge, an art supply shop, a most incredible experience and landmark. Dot had a huge heart and love for people and artists. Among her many gifts, she was able to make one feel special and valued in her company. Dot leaves her husband Bruce, Pippa, Vince and family.For more about Dot, Bruce and the Deckle Edge see here :

Die Burger: KAAPSTAD. – Die Kaapstadse visuele kunstenaar Henk Serfontein is pas klaar met ’n reeks skilderye waarin hy in gesprek tree met die werk van die ontslape Britse skilder Lucien Freud. Die meegaande werk uit sy nuwe reeks, Facing Freud, is deur Bettie Lambrecht, ’n gereelde medewerker van Die Burger
se kunsblad, gekies vir die Critics’ Choice-tentoonstelling wat tot 28 Junie te sien is in die Kunsvereniging se galery te Kerkstraat 80. Deur resensente die kunswerke te laat kies, word die bordjies verhang. More

My Joburg, ’n uitstalling van werk deur Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars “wat tot ’n groot mate nog nie die aandag van die Franse publiek getrek het nie”, word van 20 Junie tot 22 September in Parys, Frankryk, gehou.Dié uitstalling is deel van die Frans-Suid-Afrikaanse seisoen wat tot Desember in verskeie Franse stede duur.Die uitstalling in Maison Rouge in die hartjie van Parys is deel van dié galery se program om kuns uit wêreldstede wat nié hoofstede is nie, te vertoon.Die vorige uitstalling was dié van kunstenaars van Winnipeg in Kanada. Volgens die galery se webwerf stel Maison Rouge, . More

Guardian, Mark Brown: Self-taught contributors include a Paris road sweeper with post-apocalyptic blueprints and a man who sculpts young girls. It has brought together mavericks and dreamers, reimagined the worlds of culture and science, and may
just be the most far-out art exhibition in recent memory. Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery in London, says The Alternative Guide to the Universe, which opens on Tuesday salutes artists who "look at different possibilities". More

The city of Lodz in Poland is promoting the work of street artists from around the world as a way of creating a cultural re-invigoration of this city whose population is three quarters of a million. Begun in 2009, the Urban Forms Gallery has installed more than 20 large square paintings on elevations in the city center. The public/private partnership and the addition of the artwork has attracted business and investment, and of course urban exploring tourists who can follow a map to see the works within a couple of hours. As a model for employing the talents of street artists to create public art in service of the More

Lowry's critics have used the fact of his paintings' repetitiveness against him, but he brilliantly reveals what happens when human beings couple with the industrial world, says Jeanette Winterson
In 1916, LS Lowry had missed his train from Pendlebury, the Salford suburb where he lived, into Manchester. "It would be about four o'clock and perhaps there was some peculiar condition of the atmosphere or something. But as I got to the top of the steps I saw the Acme Mill; a great square red block with the cottages running in rows right up to it – and suddenly I knew what I had to paint."
Dickens and Mrs Gaskell had written about Manchester. DH Lawrence found a language for the rough beauty More