Johan Myburg
Erica Fraser, kurator van Pretoria Re-Mastered, wat later vandeesmaand in die Jakarandastad begin, het die idee vir dié uitstalling ’n paar jaar gelede in Berlyn teëgekom en besluit om ’n soortgelyke projek in Pretoria te onderneem.  [more...]

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC), in conjunction with the Association of the Arts Pretoria, invites all interested participants to submit entries to the PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards Competition before September 29, 2010.   [more...]

The established Kirstenbosch Botanical Art Biennale has become a well loved and attended show, drawing diverse and enthusiastic crowds to the gardens bursting with the promise of spring.   [more...]

Opening Sunday 05 September @ 11am with opening speaker Wilma Cruise.
he exhibition andWHATnow?* will be the third of a trilogy of exhibitions entitled: WHO? WHERE? andWHATnow? to be held at The Gallery, Grande Provence in 2010.  [more...]

Artist’s book launch "Skoelapperheuwel, Skoelappervrou" A poem by Wilma Stockenström, with printed and drawn illustrations by Judith Mason. 4 – 8 September 2010. Launch event Today (Saturday 4 September) at 13:30. Opening address by Judith Mason and poetry reading by Dawid Minnaar.  [more...]

By Emily Stokes
Bruce High Quality was an artist who, like his hero Joseph Beuys, believed in art’s potential to transform society. Before his death in the September 11 attacks in 2001, his groundbreaking work as a “social sculptor” was balanced by a quieter, more introspective practice, interrogating the foundations of his own identity through self-portraiture.   [more...]

by Sean O'Toole
If you look past the funky graphic interjections, mostly green, pink and orange dots, you’ll see that photographer Jason DeMarte’s work is situated in familiar territory. Like Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jo Ractliffe or Lien Botha before him, DeMarte, a US photographer currently showing at Cape Town’s Wessel Snyman Creative, likes taking photos of diorama scenes.  [more...]

Hanneke Benade is dié week aan die beurt in Kunskyk, die rubriek waarin ’n Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar die geleentheid kry om die werk van ’n ander kunstenaar te bespreek. Benade het die werk van Adriaan van Zyl en Spencer Tunick gekies.  [more...]

Tuned to the ethical?

The comical capers of the crooks involved in the real-life killing of Brett Kebble may have provided some absurdist amusement during the testimony in the ongoing murder trial. What it did not hide, was the real dark, even evil, underworld life of this sometime self-promoting patron of the arts.   [more...]

When German expressionism met Indian beauty in Southern Africa a new art genre emerged – Irma Stern at Bonhams in London.
An arresting image from Irma Stern’s time in Zanzibar, where she was powerfully affected by the beauty of the local Indian women, features in Bonhams next sale of South African Art in London on October 26 and 27.  [more...]

Pandora Art House presents “Tanti Piccoli Robot” Pretoria - 3 September 2010 sees the opening of an exhibition of works by a diverse group of visual artists. Art critic and journalist Johan Myburg will open the exhibition, complemented by a performance by the Rynier Prins Jazz Trio.   [more...]

Even the financial crisis hasn't prevented companies as diverse as Bayer and the Dallas Cowboys from building on their collections. By Lindsey Pollock  [more...]

A recent glut of auction records suggest the rich are once again investing in art. By Charlotte Burns

LONDON. A recent swathe of auction records has led, as in 2004, to speculation that the rich may once again be treating art as an investment vehicle.  [more...]

By: Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer
AMSTERDAM (AP).- Vincent van Gogh must have been horrified when he returned from the hospital to his studio in Arles early in 1889 to find one of his favorite paintings damaged by moisture.   [more...]

Written by JoNews Reporter
In another first - Rea Vaya is the first such public transport system in Africa - its station artwork has earned a Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) award for the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA).  [more...]

A group that lobbies against conceptual art has claimed 15 works by the artist Damien Hirst were inspired by others.  [more...]

Whatiftheworld is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Eastman. Opening Tonight 6pm-9pm.  [more...]

In Part by Paula Louw opens Tonight (Thursday 2 September at 6:30pm)
Guest speaker: Pieter Swanepoel.

Exhibition closes on 3 October 2010
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Janine Zagel is, among other things, the assistant of acclaimed sculptor Andries Botha. But you wouldn't necessarily know that from the scores of Botha-related mails she sends out through the cybersphere – she never signs or identifies herself as thus. You might instead conclude that she's some kind of discipline, imbued with the persistence and ubiquity of of a Reuters news feed.   [more...]

Johan Myburg
In die laat 80’s het Judith Mason ’n gedig (in boekvorm) van Wilma Stockenström geïllustreer en ’n oplaag daarvan laat druk by die eertydse Broederstroom Press.   [more...]

Melvyn Minnaar
In Muller Ballot se boek oor Christo Coetzee (Human & Rousseau, 1999), vertel Ferrie Binge-Coetzee in haar herinneringe oor hom die staaltjie van hoe Christo haar een dag in 1967 by ’n straatkafeetjie in Alicante in Spanje skielik met ’n pêrelring verras het.   [more...]

A New York art courier entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million (£850,000) painting is being sued after it vanished while he was on a night out.
James Carl Haggerty is now being sued by one of the owners of “Portrait of a Girl” by the French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.  [more...]

Johan Myburg
In Maart is die eerste Pandora Art House-uitstalling en partytjie in Pretoria aangebied. ’n Leë woonhuis is omskep in ’n galery en verskeie kunstenaars het werk daar vertoon.  [more...]

LONDON.- Christie’s presents a special and unique loan exhibition, Treasures of Kazakhstan – Exhibition of Kazakh and Russian Art from the Kasteev Museum and a Distinguished Kazakh Private Collection at its headquarters in London from 1-8 September 2010.   [more...]

Dissociation caused by Virtual Spaces are explored through Henning's "Unnatural Selection" show.
Within the context of consumerism, Lüdeke tries to find ways of transposing online commercial media into tangible, tactile spaces.  [more...]

n her latest body of work, Blight, Marlise Keith is concerned with the ways in which we use and live with “nourishing” metaphors. The term “blight” refers to the discolouring and eventual death of plants as a result of incapacity to produce sufficient chlorophyll.  [more...]

Martiens van Bart
’n Landskapskildery wat Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (1886-1957) in 1945 in olie op doek geskilder het, Landskap met rivier, is op die pas afgelope oudhedeveiling van Stephan Welz & Kie. in Johannesburg vir R1,232 miljoen verkoop.  [more...]

Opening Tonight @ 6pm-8:30pm. Exhibition willl be opened by Gordon Froud.   [more...]

By Scott Steinberg
According to Merriam-Webster, the word "art" can be defined as "the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects."  [more...]

By Reyhan Harmanci
A leading member of the expert team that declared that a box of negatives bought at a California garage sale were the lost work of Ansel Adams has changed his mind.  [more...]

Sensorialités Excentriques at France's Musée d'Art contemporain de Rochechouart stretches the sensory limits. By Emmanuelle Lequeux.  [more...]

Opening today works from the Johannesburg Art Gallery at Hollard's Villa Arcadia In association with Business and Arts South Africa & Artinsure.
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In a rare act of censorship, Zimbabwe's inclusive government has banned artwork by Bulawayo-based artist Owen Maseko that depicts violent political upheavals more than 25 years ago.   [more...]

The Absa KKNK is excited to welcome Theo Kemp to the festival’s management
team.
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Samkelo Mangisa born 30th of May 1985 died tragically in a car accident on Saturday the 21st August 2010 at the age of 25. He participated in our mentoring workshop in April at Good Hope Art. Ever since then he was a part of the residency space.  [more...]

Die kuns-installasie, Arch, is in opdrag van Idasa Kaapstad deur die kunstenaar Ed Young geskep. Altesame 14 kunstenaars is genooi om ’n voorstel te doen vir ’n kunswerk wat in die betrokke ruimte van die organisasie se kantoor in Spinstraat sou pas.   [more...]

Johan Myburg
Die wenners van die 13de toeken nings van Business and Arts South Africa (Basa) is gisteraand in die historiese Villa Arcadia in Parktown, Johannesburg, bekend gemaak.  [more...]

Imizwa Yami’, (….my feelings) is a showcase of an exceptional artist’s expression of his South African experience. ‘Painter’ in plastic, Mbongeni Buthelezi layers coloured plastic, melted together with a heat gun, which reflects a profoundly empathetic vision of his world.  [more...]

The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Awards are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence in South African arts, culture and creativity.

Four ImpACT Awards for Young Professionals, sponsored by the Distell Foundation, will be awarded to talented and emerging artists at a time in their careers when they have shown commitment to, and reached some professional standing in their chosen discipline. These prestigious Awards honour young professional artists that fall within the first three years of their professional careers.
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Launch of the Volume 10 of the Artwork in Progress Journal
and an exhibition of artwork by the Staff of the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town.
Michaelis Galleries, 16 September – 6 October 2010
Exhibition Opening and Book Launch 15 September 2010, 18:00 for 18:30
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A rendition of Shaka by Lieutenant James King pre 1836 is being considered for a basis of likeness for the Durban Airport Statue. The previous statue was snubbed by the Zulu king as Shaka looking more like a “Herdboy” than Andries Botha’s interpretation of Shaka as nature lover  [more...]

Opening Today @ 12pm-4pm An exhibition of unique prints entitled "Layer upon layer" by Bronwen Findlay in collaboration with Tim’s Print Studio & Artist Proof Studio at Artist Proof Studio, Jhb.  [more...]

Maja Marx is dié week aan die beurt in Kunskyk, die rubriek waarin Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars die geleentheid kry om die werk van ’n ander kunstenaar te bespreek.

Marx het die minimalistiese werk van Michael Heizer en Wolfgang Laib gekies.  [more...]

The Lion's Den by Michael Taylor opens today at Worldart gallery, CT.
Over the last few years, the young Michael Taylor has quietly yet steadily built up a loyal following among the younger section of serious art collectors around the country. With his solo show at Worldart last year sold out within the first few days, Cape Town can now look forward to his 2010 exhibition at the same gallery.  [more...]

By Kate
Greatmore Art Studios is proud to present its second Creative Photography Exhibition. The show is the product of a two week mentoring workshop that explored analogue photography using cameras supplied by Exposure Gallery. Exposure Gallery is a photographic concept store that prides itself in being a platform for photographic inspirational products, cutting edge photographic artists, and avant- garde photographic concepts. Retail items sold in the store include Lomographic cameras, a camera known for its inherent playfulness and spontaneity used as a springboard for creativity.  [more...]

Die sesde Kirstenbosch- Botaniese Biënnale word op 4 September deur Steve Hopper, die direkteur van die Koninklike Botaniese Tuine te Kew, geopen.  [more...]

Johan Myburg
Die 13de Business Day Business and Arts South Africa (Basa)-pryse word op 30 Augustus toegeken in die historiese Villa Arcadia in Parktown, Johannesburg.  [more...]

A Documentary on Pieter van der Westhuizen has been produced by deepend films entitled "Chickens can fly". see www.chickenscanfly.co.za  [more...]

Book launch - Ephraim Ngatane: A Setting Apart
Presentation by co-author Natalie Knight Tonight,
Thursday 26 August 2010 at 18h30
An exhibition of selected oil and watercolour paintings by the artist will be on show until
11 September.  [more...]

Tonight,Thursday 26 August a night of Art by Maeve Dewar Music by Tess Prins at iArt Gallery @ 7-10pm.  [more...]

The pair who sold fake prints claiming they were by the graffiti artist have also been banned from selling anything on the internet for five years.
By Martin Bailey   [more...]

Gagosian shows his personal art collection in Abu Dhabi, Hirst and Dunphy part company, Bank of Ireland to sell its collection, and more  [more...]

Applications for the 2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowships are open
until 3 September.

The Fellowships will be taken under the auspices of the University of Cape
Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), an
innovative institution promoting new interdisciplinary creative research in
the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and
New Media, and in particular collaborations among disciplines.  [more...]

n a solo exhibition of new drawings, prints and paintings at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, SAM NHLENGETHWA pays homage to trumpeter and composer Miles Davis and celebrates the recent 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking album Kind of Blue. The record, which is universally known as one of the most influential and best-selling jazz albums of all time, has been as significant in South Africa as it has been everywhere else.  [more...]

William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible is the first film produced by Art21 for national television broadcast outside of the biennial Art in the Twenty-First Century series. The film is also Art21’s first feature to focus on a single artist. The film intimately documents Kentridge’s working processes in a wide variety of media – from drawing and paper cutouts, film and performance, to staging the Shostakovich opera The Nose for its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera.  [more...]

By Jill Lawless
London — Corporations worried about the bottom line are taking a look at their office walls.
Over decades, many of the world's wealthiest banks and companies have built up art collections, rich in modern masters, that are the envy of many museums. Now, some are selling off works that adorn offices and boardrooms — some from choice, but others to pay off hungry creditors.  [more...]

Seni Seneviratne will perform Rumours of War,
a poetry and song sequence,in dialogue with Manfred Zylla’s solo exhibition, Again and Again Tonight Wednesday 25 August @ 6pm – 7.30
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Anthea Buys
Interior designer Katie Thompson's studio, a converted house in Observatory, Cape Town, is packed floor to ceiling with junk.

Some of it has been repurposed, upholstered in pretty florals; other bits of furniture, clocks, jugs and knick-knacks await their second lease on life.  [more...]

Published on August 24, 2010.
A solo exhibition by UK-based artist-activist Sandira Reddy, entitled All Shades of Brown, opened at artSPACE last night.

Explains the artist: "The title of the exhibition describes the skin colour element that comes across in all the disciplines that I work in: graphic design, photography and fine art. The show will feature pieces from each area illustrating all the facets that make up me.  [more...]

By Anton Ferreira
A blunder at a Johannesburg art gallery scuppered the R3.2-million sale of a Tretchikoff painting from the estate of murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble.  [more...]

Applications for the 2011 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellowships are open until 3 September.
The Fellowships will be taken under the auspices of the University of Cape Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), an innovative institution promoting new interdisciplinary creative research in the disciplines of Music, Dance, Fine Art, Drama, Creative Writing, Film and New Media, and in particular collaborations among disciplines.
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As the excitement builds up towards the fifth MTN New Contemporaries Arts Award, the MTN SA Foundation is pleased to announce that the behind the scenes preparations are progressing at an exhilarating pace.

Under the leadership of respected curator Nontobeko Ntombela, the four finalists are hard at work to showcase their new artworks that will be presented to the public on Tuesday 14 September at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban. As one of the younger generation of contemporary art specialists the young curator Ntombela brings to the role the requisite insight for selecting the four finalists, thereby determining the artistic direction of the competition.  [more...]

Vuleka 2010 Art Competition
25 August-15 September 2010, opening toinight.
Art.b – The Arts Association of Bellville is once again hosting the Vuleka Art Competition.  [more...]

Wessel Snyman Creative is proud to announce the the very first appearance of American photographer Jason DeMarte in South Africa.  [more...]

An exhibition of Childrens' Book Illustrations by Fiona Moodie opens Today at the Irma Stern museum. In 2007 Fiona Moodie received the Exclusive Books Prize for Illustration for Fynbos Fairies, (Poems by Antjie Krog), 2007, Random House Umuzi, Cape Town.

In August 2010 she received the M.E.R. Prize for Best Illustrated Book 2010 from Via Afrika Awards for In the Never-Ever Wood with Linda Rode, 2009, Tafelberg, Cape Town.  [more...]

Johan Myburg
Die vyfde MTN New Contemporaries-kunskompetisie vind van jaar in Durban se KZNSA- galery plaas. Die kunstenaars wat ­meeding, is Stuart Bird, Donna Kukama, Mohau Modisakeng en Kemang Wa Lehulere.  [more...]

Khwezi Gule
Is Anton Kannemeyer’s new Bitterkomix collection, Pappa in Afrika, flagrantly racist or is it a lament for a continent ravaged by centuries of colonial rule?   [more...]

The satirical use of the Tintin character is especially poignant. Kannemeyer has used a Tintin-like figure to portray himself before, most notably in his silent comic of the white Afrikaans boy running, 1974.   [more...]

Opening Tonight at 6pm AVA’s ArtReach Fundraiser-MINI ME. This is the AVA’s annual call to artists to help raise funds for our ArtReach Fund.

We always like to challenge contemporary artist to work in different ways. This year's theme is Mini Me.

We are asking artists to donate miniature works. The tradition of miniatures is that they are exquisitely worked and often could fit in the palm of the hand. Miniature art has been made for thousands of years and is often prized by collectors.  [more...]

Angle: A print and jewellery exhibition by Angela Yeung and Rob Mills opens at Artspace Gallery on 21 August 2010 at 15:30.

Jewellery designer Angela Yeung teams up with fine art photographer Rob Mills, to present a new body of work entitled "O". The work integrates the two dimensional medium of photography with the sculptural aspect of jewellery design as well as prints and items of jewellery.  [more...]

Jan van der Merwe is dié week aan die beurt in Kunskyk, die rubriek waarin Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars die geleentheid gegee word om die werk van ’n ander kunstenaar te bespreek. Van der Merwe het die werk gekies van die Duitse kunstenaar Anselm Kiefer.  [more...]

Warhols sell for millions. But who decides which ones are genuine? And are they always right? Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark on a scandal that rocked the art world.  [more...]

A playful, subversive mood dominates the shortlist for Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth. Most of the six proposals, in what is a very strong shortlist, play on notions of British identity, probing themes of heroism, heritage and conquest.  [more...]

Everard Read Johannesburg takes pleasure in inviting you to view works from Haneke Benade.  [more...]

Compiled by Dave Itzkoff
Pablo Picasso, you still got it! The Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Tuesday that its recent exhibition of works by that 20th-century titan of creativity was its seventh highest-attended show in the museum’s history.   [more...]

Five generations of artists, all trained and/or currently teaching at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the Tshwane University of Technology, are exhibiting together at Platform on 18th. The show, called PHIVE, hosts the work of Johann Nortje, who is a current student but who has exhibited extensively locally and abroad, as well as alumnus Sotiris Moldovanos, and three alumni who are currently teaching in the Department namely Dylan Graham, Carl Jeppe and Ariana van Heerden.  [more...]

Patience Banbalele
THE South African Centre in Durban is acknowledging the role of women in the arts through a special exhibition.
Running until August 29, the exhibition features the talented Witty Nyide, Zama Mthiyane, Nozipho Zulu and Gloria Mbhele.  [more...]

By Michael Coulson: It’s probably indicative of the lacklustre quality of the work on offer rather than a double dip in the market that Stephan Welz & Co (Swelco) sold only three of the 12 highest-estimate SA artworks at this week’s sale in Johannesburg, as lower down the scale results were somewhat better. And none of the top three beat the low estimate, if buyer’s premium and any other charges are deducted.  [more...]

Gallery MOMO is pleased to announce that artists Mary Sibande and Ransome Stanley have been nominated together with a select group of international artists to submit entries for the UN Campus in Bonn. This art competition was initiated by the UN and a selection of 24 artists from Europe, USA, South America, Asia and South Africa were invited to submit artworks for the new stairwell, atrium and wall in the foyer. Mary Sibande has the honor of being the only artist from the African continent and one of the few female artists selected to submit a design for the atrium. An international artist of note, Ransome Stanley, who is German by citizenship and has a Nigerian father, is submitting artwork for the wall in the foyer. Gallery MOMO is proud that these two artists have been recognized for their hard work and dedication to their art. Final artworks will be submitted by the 7th of September, 2010.
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Written by V.C.Wilkinson.
Incisive wit combined with skilled technique - a lethal combination and essential prerequisite for successful political cartooning. Some of South Africa’s best political cartoonists presented their takes on reality and cartooning history at the Iziko South African National Gallery Annexe in July and August.  [more...]

VISI exhibits top 50 designs at iArt Gallery
From Alejandro Aravena to Google and everything in between

In celebration of its 50th issue, VISI – South Africa’s premier décor, design and architecture magazine – will be hosting, in association with Absolut Vodka, the VISI Top 50 Designs exhibition at the iArt Gallery in Cape Town from 18 to 23 August 2010.  [more...]

Cobus van Bosch
Sandra Hanekom
iArt-galery,Wembley Square, Tuin
Die gebrokenheid van die mens se bestaan teen die agtergrond van geestelike armoede en kerklike tirannie is ’n sentrale tema in hierdie nuwe reeks skilderye.
Hier skil Sandra Hanekom enersyds ’n paar appeltjies met ou tradisies en andersyds bring sy daaraan hulde.
Hoewel Hanekom spesifiek gemoeid is met die beklemmende invloed van streng kerklike dogma en voorskriftelikheid, en terselfdertyd geboei is deur Westerse visuele kuns se lang ver bintenis met die Christendom, is haar bykans fotorealistiese skilderye oop vir veel wyer ver tolking danksy enigmatiese komposisies van ’n uiteenlopende verskeidenheid van mense, diere en voorwerpe.  [more...]

The Helsinki Museum is hosting Finland’s first major review of South African art. Titled Peekaboo – Current South Africa.  [more...]

This ground-breaking exhibition features the work of 18 photographers, new media, and video artists who lived and worked in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1994), as well as younger artists who have gained international prominence since then.
AUG 21, 2010 – OCT 24, 2010 Altria Group Gallery & Visual Arts Center of Richmond.  [more...]

For more info visit www.swelco.co.za  [more...]

By Robyn Sassen
There is an odd, almost contradictory sense of poetry and flow in the 31 embroidered Kopanang works.   [more...]

NEW is an exhibition not only celebrating 34FineArt’s new gallery but also some refreshing new works from the current inventory sourced from a fact finding mission to Europe an the UK.   [more...]

Johan Myburg
Die Artist Proof Studio (APS) in Newtown, Johannesburg, en Mastrantonio-beleggings, ’n restaurantgroep, het geruime tyd al ’n samewerkingsooreenkoms.

Albei partye word deur die ooreenkoms bevoordeel.   [more...]

Melvyn Minnar
Afguns, ’n doodsonde, kan in kunskringe geniepsig wees.

In die eensame woede wat die skilder Aaron Adendorff in sy kop en ateljee moet besweer, is dié jaloesie hoofsaaklik jeens die jonger, modieuse kunstenaars, soos verbeeld in Jimmy Harris. Dis ook oor die soort kuns wat, soos Jimmy sê, “bepaal word deur die laws of money”.   [more...]

Mark Hipper the great controversial and much loved artist has died at home in Grahamstown yesterday of what appears to be natural causes related to a collapsed lung.
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A new show opening Tonight, Friday 13 August at the 38 Special Gallery in downtown Cape Town is set to light up Cape Towns skyline at the end of the show, with artwork not being sold being burnt in the gutter outside.
Jaime Vasquez, the show's curator is from from Mexico says that the show is a statement that artist put their hearts, and lives into making art and meaning for society, they sacrifice all for art, only to be dumped by it.  [more...]

Bettie Lambrecht
Die Kaapstadse argitek firma Noero Wolff ryg nou nog ’n kraletjie in hul string van prestasies die laaste paar jaar.

Die firma, met aan die hoof die twee vennote, Jo Noero en Heinrich Wolff, is deur vyf ver skillende instansies, onafhanklik van mekaar, genooi om tussen nou en aanstaande jaar aan tentoonstellings en feeste op drie vaste lande deel te neem.
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By Eric Felten
This has been a summer of discovery. Every other week, it seems, someone has come forward with lost works of famous artists.
At the beginning of July, curators at the Yale University Art Gallery announced that a battered canvas that had been gathering dust in the museum's basement for the better part of a century had been painted by a young Diego Velázquez, the greatest artist of the Spanish Baroque. A few weeks later, the Vatican's paper of record, L'Osservatore Romano, proclaimed that a painting that had languished in an obscure church in Rome appeared to be by none other than the early 17th century Italian master Caravaggio.  [more...]

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art today announces that the MoMA App is now available on the App Store. The new application for the iPhone and iPod touch provides users with instant access to 32,000 works of art in the Museum’s vast collection of modern and contemporary art; a dictionary of art terms and a database of artist bios; calendar information for exhibitions, film screenings, and events; and a variety of audio tours, including special tours for children, teens, and the visually impaired.   [more...]

By Peter Aspden
Here they are again: Antony Gormley’s life-sized, cast iron figures, like curious aliens savouring the latest stage of their package tour of earthly delights, have found a new place to park their inert bodies. High in a mountain pasture in the Austrian Alps, 100 of these unblinking figures bear witness to a new and dramatically different landscape.  [more...]

By John Wenzel
"Over the River," a provocative public-art project along 40 miles of the Arkansas River between Salida and Cañon City, is very much alive, its co-creator made clear Wednesday.

The artist Christo, best known for transforming places and things by draping them in colorful fabrics, is visiting Colorado for a round of appearances aimed at garnering support for the project.  [more...]

Johan Myburg
Johan Myburg het met Jaco van den Heever gepraat oor sy onlangse solo-uitstalling, oor hoe hy die geboue van sy grootwordjare onthou en oor ’n selfportret.  [more...]

Curated by Catherine Ocholla

Mavericks, provocateurs and household names in the contemporary South African artscape will take over one of Cape Town’s most historical watering holes, the Kimberley Hotel, on Wednesday the 11th of August, in a madcap art exhibition, party and cultural response to the local of many of Cape Town’s most creative individuals.  [more...]

Now in its tenth year the established Kirstenbosch Botanical Art Biennale has become a well loved and attended show, drawing diverse and enthusiastic crowds to the gardens. The 2010 exhibition, the sixth since inception in 2000, will run from 5 to 24 September at the Old Mutual Conference Centre at Kirstenbosch and is sponsored by Old Mutual.

The main focus this year will be on rare, endangered and narrow endemic species indigenous to southern Africa.  [more...]

An exhibition of newly restored 19th-century wooden boards donated to the Shelburne Museum reveals early guerrilla marketing tactics

By Emily Sharpe   [more...]

Monday 9 August sees the opening of our latest exhibition entitled "Eyrie" - A solo exhibition by Mozambique based artist Cecilia Ferreira.
The central theme for Cecilia's work has always been the human figure, exploring the dark crevasses of the human psyche.
"Eyrie" is no different!
A powerful and expressive body of work, searching for the very meaning of human excistence..
Hauntingly expressive and more than a little unsettling, mixed media artwork that is certainly not to be missed!
So join us at Wessel Snyman Creative on August the 9th, for a glass of wine and an explosion of imagery you won't forget anytime soon!  [more...]

A new show opening on the Friday 13 August at the 38 Special Gallery in downtown Cape Town is set to light up Cape Towns skyline at the end of the show, with artwork not being sold being burnt in the gutter outside.

Jaime Vasquez, the show's curator is from from Mexico says that the show is a statement that artist put their hearts, and lives into making art and meaning for society, they sacrifice all for art, only to be dumped by it.

Vasquez went on to say that that “the fault of the artwork being destroyed is not the fault of the artists, but the fault of people who have money but do not buy art”. Whether their artwork gets sold is up to the public.  [more...]

Gordon Froud is dié week aan die beurt in “Kunskyk”, die rubriek waarin Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars die geleentheid kry om die werk van ’n ander kunstenaar te bespreek. Froud het die werk van die Britse kunstenaar Richard Wilson gekies.

Gordon Froud is bekend as kunste?naar, kunsdosent, kunsbeoordelaar van talle kompetisies en kurator.   [more...]

Bettie Lambrecht
Die gevierde fotograaf Jodi Bieber het met Bettie Lambrecht gesels oor haar fotoboek van die kontemporêre Soweto en haar voorblad vir Time.

Die Suid-Afrikaanse fotograaf Jodi Bieber se foto van ’n Afgaanse vrou sonder neus en ore op die nuustydskrif Time (9 Augustus) se voorblad ruk jou. Die Taliban het beveel haar gesig moet só geskend word. Dis glo haar straf omdat sy van haar gewelddadige man en skoonfamilie weggeloop het.   [more...]

By Philip Boroff Sotheby’s second-quarter earnings were seven times that of a year ago as sales surged amid renewed confidence in art as an investment.

Net income was $86.2 million, or $1.26 a share, up from $12.2 million, or 18 cents a share, in 2009, the company said in a statement. Second-quarter revenue jumped 68 percent to $281.4 million.  [more...]

By Andrea Nagel
Zimbabwean-born, Cape Town-based artist Dan Halter is in Scotland for three months creating art for the Artists in Residence (AiR) programme. The programme was established in 2002 by Peter Gordon, the great great grandson of William Grant, founder of Glenfiddich, to "foster creativity and experimentation in others".  [more...]

The record breaking sales of Picasso paintings have fuelled a boom in global art market with Christie's reporting sales of £1.71 billion in the first six months of the year.  [more...]

Liza Grobler
Sasol-kunsmuseum, Stellenbosch
Konteks is alles. Dit bepaal hoe kunstenaars dink, wat hulle skep en hoe daar terugskouend oor ­hul lewe en werke besin word.
Die kunstenaar-skrywer Johannes Meintjes (1923–1980) het tydens sy lewe meer as 1 000 skilderye, talle beeldhou- en grafiese werke, asook 35 boeke geproduseer. Sy monografie oor die skilder Maggie Laubser verskyn reeds op 21-jarige leeftyd en op ongeveer dieselfde stadium word sy eie kuns gul deur die media ontvang; selfs die publiek reageer opti misties.  [more...]

‘Bitterkomix’-visier op koloniale Afrika Cobus van Bosch
Die skerpsnydende strokiesprente van Bitterkomix skok en onthuts Suid-Afrikaners nou reeds byna 20 jaar lank.

Daarom sou ’n mens kon dink dat die genadelose voorhamer-tegnieke waarmee Bitterkomix se skeppers, Anton Kannemeyer en Conrad Botes, veral wit kleingeestigheid en bekrompenheid teenoor ras en moraliteit aan die kaak stel, teen dié tyd heelwat trefkrag verloor het.   [more...]

Penny Siopis’ latest exhibition, Furies, comprises new paintings and a video installation.

In the first she continues to explore the powers and possibilities of contemporary painting, working the vital energies that shape the relationship between materiality and figuration, surface and sensation, in strongly associative ways. Siopis writes:

I am still excited and driven by the challenge materiality poses for depiction. Much of the sense and sensation in the paintings is embedded in the material itself: what floats, floods, flares, falls and fixes somewhere on the edge of form or formlessness. I am fascinated by the strangeness and openness of this process, which is intensified in the way I use my medium, viscous glue and liquid ink – a sort of choreography of chance and control.  [more...]

Diesel & Dust – Selected works by Obie Oberholzer.
Opening Tonight, Thursday 5th August at 6:30pm – 12 September 2010. Tickets will be available at the gallery at R50.00 per person. There is a limit of 150 tickets for the evening on Thursday 5 August at 18h30. The evening will include a light meal, wine and fruit juice. A walk about and book signing by Obie Oberholzer in person where he will discuss his method of working. The ticket holder will also be entered into a draw to win one of Obie’s latest books. All works on exhibition will be for sale.   [more...]

By Alex Williams
Tim Nye, the bon vivant, Park Avenue heir and Chelsea gallery owner, has a theory about art openings. “You’ve got to do something that makes them say ‘Wow.’ ”

By that standard, the festivities for Swell, a three-gallery exhibition on surfing-inspired art that opened last month, lived up to expectations.  [more...]

By Andy Dolan
His paintings fetch thousands and attract buyers from all over the world.
But while his watercolours, pastels and oil paintings hint at a talent honed through decades of practice, Kieron Williamson is barely halfway through primary school.
The seven-year-old prodigy sold his latest collection of paintings for £150,000 at the weekend, with all 33 works sold in just 30 minutes.  [more...]

Brodie/Stevenson is pleased to present two new bodies of work by Lunga Kama. Kama’s new colour self-portrait, titled Ze (Xhosa for ‘nude’), comprises four separate panels and continues the artist’s investigations into imaging black masculinity. Specifically, Kama is interested in how aspects of sexuality and self-reflexivity are made manifest through representations of the physical body. Through these images Kama explores how all modes of subjectivity, including his own, carry within them aspects of the performative.  [more...]

Exhibition in Dresden reunites Dürer painting with altarpiece following a 21-year restoration
By Martin Bailey
LONDON. A panel from Dürer’s first major altarpiece has been restored after a 21-year treatment following a devastating acid attack in Munich. The Virgin of Sorrows has been unveiled in Dresden, where it was reunited with the rest of the altarpiece of the Seven Sorrows for the first time in nearly five centuries.  [more...]

Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Brussels is worried about sending its collection of wooden sculptures to Africa.
By Martin Bailey
BRUSSELS. A planned tour of a major exhibition of African art to Libya, currently on show in Belgium, is now under threat. Masterminded by Tanzania-born British architect David Adjaye, the show was due to open in Tripoli for the European-African summit in November, hosted by Colonel Gaddafi.  [more...]

Opening Tonight at 6:30pm. ‘These four walls gallery’ in observatory is hosting an exhibition of print work by young artists. The show is called We/Edition. ‘We’ are not affiliated with Warren Editions. ‘We’ are not necessarily affiliated with anything, or rather; the show is not the product of a singe entity. ‘We’ all know each other well, have worked together before, are connected in a number of ways – but in this instance, are simply exhibiting together. The standard against which ‘We’ all worked was Printmaking. ‘We’ do not all consider ourselves to be printmakers, but acknowledge the place this ubiquitous medium has in our various practises. The work exhibited is all new - none of it has been exhibited before - some of it prompted specifically by, and made for the show. It’s a reflection (an impression), through print, of where ‘We’ all are.  [more...]

Sondeval, Sandra Hanekom’s most recent body of work, is at its core a conflation of two things. On the one hand, it can be regarded as a significantly emotional reaction against old-school “fire and brimstone” Christianity of the kind preached during her childhood. However, it is simultaneously a homage to Christian art of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.  [more...]

This showcase uncovers as yet unseen works, focussing on the print making side of my art and pushing boundaries there of. I always feel that painting informs sculpture and sculpture informs print making and that they are all interrelated. The spontaneous approach is an integral part of my art making and thus I have employed, with the smaller hand coloured etchings, the sugar lift technique on copper plate.   [more...]

Kunsstudente van die Universiteit van Pretoria is besig om ’n rusbank vir die Nelson Mandela-plein in Sandton te ontwerp.

Die rusbank is in opdrag van die Sandtonse sentrale bestuursdistrik se BenchMark Commission.

Die oogmerk met BenchMark is om stedelike meublement te gebruik om van die plein ’n toeganklike en gemakliker plek te maak.  [more...]

The Ore Gallery that opened last month in Observatory has closed its doors. It seems that the problem is not so much a cash flow one, but a combination of early over spending and in-house fighting by it's co-directors.

There has been the implication that the gallery's co-director, Caitlin Hood was too generous, from paying for the artists' framing to installing a magnetic hanging system that cost more than R 150 000, which was developed by the gallery's co-owner. Alleged in-house fighting between both co-owners split the partnership further.  [more...]

By Nechama Brodie
This is not where the story begins, but it is where I'll begin: 1949 in the Grey Street complex, Durban -- the area also known as Coolie Town or the Casbah. It is the year of the Durban riots, when 142 people will lose their lives in a weekend of violence. Omar Badsha is four years old.

On a Friday afternoon after mosque, a brick is thrown through the window of Badsha's house on Douglas Lane. It is the house where Badsha’s family has lived since 1917. In the backyard of the house is an umdoni tree, planted by Badsha's grandmother.  [more...]

Johan Myburg
Met ’n driewiel as voertuig het Ruben Abels, ’n Nederlandse kunstenaar, die afgelope paar weke navorsing gedoen in dele van die Johannesburgse middestad.

Die fokus van die projek “Part of Joburg” was om lede van die publiek se mening te kry oor openbare kunswerke wat in die laaste vier jaar in die middestad opgerig is.   [more...]

LECH-OBERLECH.- On Saturday 31 July, the hundredth figure by leading British sculptor, Antony Gormley was lowered into place by helicopter to launch the artist’s unique installation, Horizon Field, in the mountains of Vorarlberg in Austria, presented in association with the Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Horizon Field features 100 life-size cast iron figures installed over an area of 150 square kilometres. It is the first art project of its kind in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date. The works will remain in the Alps for two years during which time they will be exposed to the elements, to different lighting conditions, and to the changing seasons, thus enabling constantly new perceptions and impressions.   [more...]

Nicola Taylor – A World without Collisions.
Nicola Taylor is a talented young painter with vibrant and captivating work inspired both by busy Johannesburg
and the Tsitsikamma rainforests, creating a duality of two forests that lay thousands of kilometers apart.
Situated in a Fordsburg studio, with a breathtaking view of the majestic city skyline, the artist is surrounded by
enormous flocks of pigeons and the interesting local characters that inspire her daily. With striking portraits
and detailed depictions of her surroundings, Taylor works mainly in the medium of oil painting.  [more...]

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) bied weer in samewerking met die Kunsvereniging Pretoria die PPC Young Concrete Sculptor-prys aan en beeldhouers kan tot 29 September inskryf.  [more...]

Franci Cronjé
Vandat ek voorgestel is aan die beginsel van kritiese denke in mediastudies was my kop nooit weer dieselfde nie.

Maar laat ek by die begin begin: Getoë in ’n soliede Calvinistiese huishouding deur twee onderwyser-ouers, het ek my grootmenslewe blinkoog begin met grootse idees van onderdanigheid en verdienstelikheid.  [more...]

THE 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Michael MacGarry, is a graphic designer, writer and visual artist based in Johannesburg.
Endgame, the exhibition he staged at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, opened last night at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum and runs till September 5. MacGarry returned to South Africa after starting his design career in London and Dublin.  [more...]

Hotel group funds controversial 'Candle of Hope'
By Rowan Philip
A massive monument to Nelson Mandela has been mysteriously erected in Sandton, in what some say is a gesture of new business confidence in South Africa's future.   [more...]

Aurora Fine Art Fund claims it has conclusive evidence that £1.69m work is not by Boris Kustodiev
By John Varoli
MOSCOW. Aurora Fine Art Fund, one of the largest private collections of Russian art owned by oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, has launched a lawsuit against Christie’s, claiming that the auction house sold it a fake £1.69m painting in November 2005 in London.  [more...]

The heirs of a Jewish art collector are suing the Hungarian government for the return of paintings worth more than $100m (£64.1m) seized in World War II.
The case, filed in Washington by Baron Mor Lipot Herzog's family, follows a failed battle in Hungarian courts.
The family, who are also suing state-owned museums, say Hungary has about 40 works, including paintings by El Greco.
Herzog left the collection to his children when he died in 1934 before it was plundered by the Nazis.  [more...]

Another good way to spend your lovely oil money.
IN A suburb of Lagos, Nigeria’s business capital, Yemisi Shyllon lives in a house full of bronze statues of African tribal rulers and brightly coloured beadwork landscapes. He may be Nigeria’s biggest art collector, with some 6,000 pieces by his count. “I don’t go out much,” he says, “I have enough to look at here.”  [more...]

Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh on making art about sex and politics in the Middle East.
RAMIN and Rokni Haerizadeh, two Iranian artists exiled in Dubai, fled their homeland in spring 2009. Iranian officials became aware of their work when it was included in Charles Saatchi's exhibition, “Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East”.   [more...]

TURNING POINT, at the Lower Gallery EPSAC, until July 31. Reviewed by Cornelia le Roux
THIS wonderfully versatile exhibition is professional wood turner and artist Nico Swart’s fifth since starting to uncover the beauty of wood on his lathe in 1994. As evidence of the widespread popularity of his work, he exhibited On the Count of Twelve in the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Kimberley and in 2007 one of his turned vases was awarded the Dave MacGregor Trophy at Epsac’s annual exhibition.  [more...]

This Year Hout Street Gallery celebrates its 35th birthday and presents its annual "Winter Gala" from 29th July-30th September 2010.  [more...]

The Asian art market has rebounded from recession more quickly than any other, according to figures on Sotheby’s website that are likely to feature in the company’s six-month review to be announced next week.
By Colin Gleadell   [more...]

Curated by Catherine Ocholla : Mavericks, provocateurs and household names in the contemporary South African artscape will take over one of Cape Town’s most historical watering holes, the Kimberley Hotel, on Wednesday the 11th of August, in a madcap art exhibition, party and cultural response to the local of many of Cape Town’s most creative individuals.
‘The Big Hole’ provides an opportunity for artists to investigate the sometimes murky legends circulating around the Kimberley, as well as some of the various South African histories ingrained in the site.  [more...]

Hazel Friedman

If sport is the opiate of the masses then culture is their social currency. And if there are any lessons to be learnt from football, it is that the team which cannot adapt, falls; and that one must always keep an eye on the ball. So what does this Fifa-esque homily have to do with the successful operation of an art gallery? On a prima facie basis, not much, apart from the fact that at the Everard Read Gallery in Cape Town the polite tones so typical of the sanctified art spaces are being violated by the collective trumpet of the vuvuzela brigade outside.   [more...]

Johan Myburg
AVigil of Departure is die titel van die oorsig­uitstalling van die werk van Louis Maqhubela wat volgende week in die Standard Bank-galery in Johannesburg begin.
Marilyn Martin is die kurator van dié uitstalling wat Maqhubela se rol in en bydrae tot Suid-Afrikaanse kuns ondersoek.
Die werke op die uitstalling is gemaak tussen 1960 en 2010.
Maqhubela het sedert sy vertrek na die buiteland in 1973 nie die erkenning in sy vaderland gekry wat hom toekom nie.   [more...]

Die tweede Rooftop-uitstalling van die kurator Gordon Froud begin Saterdag in en om die galery van die Universiteit van Johannesburg.

Die eerste Rooftop-uitstalling was verlede jaar in Pretoria en daarna in die UJ-galery te sien.  [more...]

Bettie Lambrecht
Die medium maak die kunswerk... of nie? Gelukkig is daar gereeld uitdagende pro jekte wat hier die heersende houding in die plaaslike (Suid-Afrikaanse) kunsmark op die kop keer.

Die manier van sien, die konsep en vorm ge wing wat saam ’n gevoel of insig by die waarnemer wek – dít is wat tot die be naming kuns lei.  [more...]

By Ella Ide
Art-lovers around the world who were keeping their fingers crossed that a newly discovered canvas was possibly a lost painting by the Baroque master Caravaggio were disappointed on Tuesday.

The Italian art world was in a buzz last week when the Vatican newspaper l'Osservatore Romano ran an article that a painting in Rome's main Jesuit church could be a Caravaggio.  [more...]

South Africa’s young artists have once again proved their mettle in a sterling display of homegrown
creativity in the prestigious Absa L’Atelier Art Awards competition, which this year celebrates its
historic 25th year anniversary as the longest-running competition of its kind on the continent.
Unlike the previous years, this year’s pool of submissions was undoubtedly about identity and how
they experience the country we are living in.
Much of the selected work seems to have subversive strategies, not in loud and shocking ways, but
rather in strangely guarded tones.  [more...]

What are young photographers up to in the twenty-first century? How do they see the world? How much do they respect, build on or reject tradition? As the digital revolution continues its relentless advance, demolishing longstanding practices in every domain of our field, curiosity builds as to how the new generation of photographers will react. Will some remain in the darkroom, or will they all migrate to the digital lab? The reGeneration project—the broadest and most enterprising survey of its kind—set out in 2005 to discover answers to these intriguing questions, previewing the work of young photographers who may well emerge as some of the finest artists of their generation.   [more...]

By Scott Reyburn
A U.S. collector paid a record $2 million for a Edvard Munch print of a doomed femme fatale, and a Russian gave $65,000 for a crocodile handbag in auctions this month as top works attracted wealthy buyers.

Asian collectors also set the pace at auctions of wine and English silver in London that followed sales of Impressionist and contemporary art where billionaires remained selective.

Choosy collectors are looking for signs of a market recovery. Buyers are only willing to pay the largest sums for the best works as sellers push up estimates again and test demand, dealers said.  [more...]

By Martin Fackler
Inakadate, Japan — Nearly two decades ago, Koichi Hanada, a clerk in the village hall, received an unusual request from his superior: find a way to bring tourists to this small community in rural northern Japan, which has rice paddies and apple orchards, but not much else.  [more...]

Disgraced art dealer Larry Salander committed what prosecutors called one of the biggest art frauds in New York State history.
By Colin Gleadell  [more...]

by Kin Bentley
HOW have colonialism, globalisation and the exploitation of natural resources impacted on South Africa and the rest of Africa?
This issue is explored in a “multimedia art experience” by Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Art 2010 Michael McGarry in his exhibition, EndGame, which runs at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum from Wednesday until September 5.
The exhibition comes directly from the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Art Museum spokesman Pam Fogarty said artist Stephen Hobbs will visit Port Elizabeth to open the exhibition at 6pm on July 28.  [more...]

Steve Kretzmann: If there was any doubt that contemporary South African sculpture could hold its own in the international art market, it was blown out of the water by the spectacular prices Dylan Lewis’s works fetched at Christies three years ago.
A 2007 auction of 75 bronze sculptures of wild cats and animals by the Stellenbosch-based artist sold out, fetching an astonishing R28 million in 90 minutes, an achievement that made the art world sit up and take new notice of a sculptor who might have been derided by critics as little more than a wildlife artist with an interesting technique.
But whatever purists might have had to say, the public pockets applauded the way his rough, masculine, raw application of clay translated in bronze and complemented the way he seems to sometimes defy the laws of physics to freeze the kinetic energy contained in the movement of his beasts.
Though he is among the most sought-after sculptors in South Africa and abroad, he is rather modest about it. “I’ve been fortunate to have ‘some’ success,” he says.  [more...]