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BEELD: Deur Johan Myburg
Die Suid-Afrikaans gebore kunstenaar Neville Gabie, die laaste klompie maande die inwonende kunstenaar van die Olimpiese Park in Londen, het vorendag gekom met ’n nuwe weergawe van die Franse post-impressionis Georges Seurat se skildery Baaiers by Asnières (1884).
Dié werk is deel van en in opdrag van die Art in the Park-program van die openbare liggaam wat verantwoordelik is vir die ontwikkeling van die infrastruktuur vir die Olimpiese Spele.
Anders is in die Seurat-skildery wat die Seine net buite Parys as ligging het, plaas Gabie sy foto, wat hy Freeze Frame noem, op die oewer van die Lea-rivier in Stratford in die ooste van Londen.  [more...]

TIMESLIVE: By Lihle Mtshali
A roomful of New York's glitterati, art lovers and members of the press gathered around photographic prints which were going under the hammer at prestigious auction house Christie's on Tuesdays night in honour of slain South African photographer Anton Hammerl.  [more...]

IOL: By Michael Mpofu
After months of waiting for information about South Africa’s participation in last year’s Venice Biennale from the Department of Arts and Culture, an arts journalist says details of how the R10 million budget was spent have been left out.  [more...]

IOL: Rizwana Sheik Umar
Durban’s city manager, S’bu Sithole, has distanced the municipality from the elephant sculpture debacle spanning more than two years, arguing that artist Andries Botha was not directly contracted to the city.
He has also called the reason for the council’s halt of the work –widely believed to be ANC fears that three elephants would be seen as the IFP symbol – as “unsubstantiated hearsay”.  [more...]

ARTINFO: By Kate Deimling, ARTINFO France
Yayoi Kusama is a unique artist, and her autobiography is a unique, if not to say weird, book. "Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama" (translated by Ralph McCarthy, University of Chicago Press) is not so much an in-depth narrative of a life as an assertion of Kusama's artistic identity — part memoir, part critique, part artistic statement.   [more...]

AFP: by Stephen Coates
HONG KONG — The glittering Hong Kong International Art Fair opens on Thursday, featuring works by artists from Picasso to Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and cementing the city's status as a global art hub.
More than 260 galleries from 38 countries, representing an even split from the West and the East, have booked space at the four-day event known as Art HK, now in its fifth edition.  [more...]