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A South African artist hopes vibrant sculptures make parks more welcoming in a city known for danger
Singing Butler painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73
Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92
Michelangelo’s Tomb Gets a Facelift For His 550th Birthday
South African contemporary art is attracting international buyers
Art Fund Bets on Women and Marginalized Artists for Big Returns
Are Art Investment Funds Evolving?
D.C. Museum Scraps Exhibitions of Black and LGBTQ Artists Amid Funding Cuts
New Footage Captures the Audacious Theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet
Nick Cave: My manager was like, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘I’m going into the ceramics business’
Artists can copyright works made using AI as an ‘assistive tool’, US Copyright Office concludes
Art world looks to Bluesky as Meta and X shift right
DAILY ART Louvre to Open New Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox Christian Art Department in 2027
CBS Gallery owner Larry Gagosian on the art world’s “blood sport”
ARTNET Artnet CEO Jacob Pabst’s Bold Blueprint for the Future of Art Journalism
ARTNET New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Frescoes Depicting a Mysterious Ritual
ArtNewspaper: As the wealthiest lurch to the right, will the commercial art world follow?
ArtNet: Temperature Check: Is Africa’s Art Market Cooling?
Auction sales of work by artists from the continent fell 36 percent between 2023 and 2024.
ArrtNet: Lost Camille Claudel Masterpiece Sells for $3.8 Million at Auction
ArtNewspaper: Technology reveals ancient text inside burnt Herculaneum scroll
ArtNewspaper: Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’
ArtNet: The Smithsonian Shutters Its Diversity Office Following Trump Executive Order
The Mona Lisa Will Get Her Own Room at the Louvre
Joburg Art Gallery renovation drama paints a murky picture
ArtNet: The Louvre Exhibition ‘Figure of the Fool’
BBC: JMW Turner celebrated with year-long festival
Cape Town & Marrakech Art Ecosystems launch
What exactly is the Stellenbosch Triennale?
Goodman: William Kentridge elected to join Académie des Beaux-Arts
2025 Heat Festival edition will take place August 6-16
The ArtNewspaper:Buyers can name their price at gallery that challenged artists to create hard-to-sell works
ArtDaily: NYC exhibition premieres a full-scale recreation of Anne Frank’s Annex for the first time
ArtNet: Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of First Women-Led Society in Europe
Daily Maverick: After the Bell: Should we just sell the art in the Johannesburg Art Gallery?
17/12/24 STRAUSSART REVIEW 2024 | Statement by Frank Kilbourn, Chairperson, Strauss & Co
21/01 ARTNEWSPAPER: Framing Van Gogh: why the artist preferred not to surround his works with gold
