Recession What recession as Art Auctions sales boom
Recession? What recession? Stunning prices in last week’s sales
by the two leading London auction houses confirm that any recession
there may have been is well and truly over as we go into a new year.
Read more under Michael Coulson Art Auction Report below:
The February
editions of SA Art Times, Business Art and Art Life are available
today.
Rendezvous Art Project has organised a French South African series of exhib focussing on original lithography travelling through South Africa. [more...]
Sometimes a surprise encounter is the best thrill. This little show really needs more space, but the humble presentation (and also that cluttered challenge to viewers in what is really a photographic shop) underpins a certain unassuming honesty about the whole project, and a directness which is crystal clear. [more...]
Recession? What recession? Stunning prices in last week’s sales by the two leading London auction houses confirm that any recession there may have been is well and truly over as we go into a new year. [more...]
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is seeking to appoint a dynamic, highly organised, creative and results-oriented individual as its General Manager. [more...]
Cape Town - 20 to 22 February 2010 UCT’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) will host Pre-Post-Per-Form, a colloquium to explore interdisciplinary and performance art from 20 to 22 February at the University’s Hiddingh Campus in central Cape Town. This is one of the first of its kind in Africa. [more...]
Reports have appeared in the media in the last week which make reference to the National Arts Festival in relation to a broader story about the Department of Arts and Culture’s activities in 2010. According to Tony Lankester, CEO of the national Arts Festival, some of these reports have been misconstrued by readers and listeners, and some have created the incorrect impression about this year’s Festival.
Thank you to the press, sponsors, galleries and others for attending the 3rd Joburg Art Fair press launch. It’s good to see some of you for the 3rd year running. I am very happy that the Fair has passed the 2 year mark; a difficult milestone for any business and even more difficult for an annual art event. [more...]
First National Bank (FNB) today announced its commitment of a further R1.5 million to the Joburg Art Fair. The bank further announced that this support will continue during the next three years. [more...]
It may be a better idea, at first, to ignore the title of this impressive photographic collaboration and indulge in the theatrical verve of its result: splendidly grand tableaux that steals the gaze and tickles the mind. [more...]
The section of Michael Stevenson’s exhibition devoted to Steven Cohen forms a retrospective survey largely consisting of works which have been extensively discussed. [more...]
If presale estimates are anything to go by, a highlight of this month's Stephan Welz & Co (Swelco) auction in Cape Town will be another stage in the rehabilitation of Tretchikoff as a major investment-grade artist. In a generally low-key sale, his Hindu Dancer is estimated at R1m-R1.2m. [more...]
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TIMES TV
Art Times TV Presents: The Marks We Make
showing at Goodman Gallery Cape
A great quality production featuring Storm Janse van Rensburg
who curated the show
