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ADVERTISE WITH THE: SA ART TIMES LEADING SA ARTS REACH OF OVER 52 000 ART LOVERS AND BUYERS PER MONTH Chat to Eugene at 021 424 7733 or e-mail sales@arttimes.co.za to find out how you can get the best advertising effect for your budget. SUBSCRIBE TO THE SA ART TIMES FOR R280 AND RECIEVE THE SA ART TIMES TO YOUR DOOR: Call Tracey at 021 4247733 or email subs@arttimes.co.za to find out more details. SEND US YOUR STORIES AND ARTISTS BIRTHDAYS AND WE WOULD CONSIDER PUBLISHING THEM THROUGH OUR EXTENSIVE NEWS AND INFORMATION NETWORK: Call Megan at 021 424 7733 or e-mail: news@arttimes.co.za [more...]
ARTINFO: By Ann Binlot. David Hockney may arguably be Britain’s greatest living artist — a November 2011 poll of 1,000 British painters and sculptors declared him Britain’s most influential, anyway — but the fashion world has another title for him: style icon. [more...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES: By Carol Vogel. The No. 1 question from visitors to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, according to Emilie Gordenker, is “Where is ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’?”The problem is, this beloved Vermeer painting, the Dutch Mona Lisa, as it has been called, doesn’t reside at the national Rijksmuseum at all but some 30 miles down the road in the lesser-known Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, in The Hague. And late next year it will be in New York. “We actually sell a postcard of ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ that says, ‘I’m in The Hague,’ ” explained Ms. Gordenker, who is director of the Mauritshuis gallery and was at the Frick Collection in New York this week to discuss travel plans for the painting. For over a century “Girl” has been hanging on the walls of Mauritshuis within a 17th-century palace, alongside paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and other top-flight masters from the Dutch and Flemish golden age. [more...]
WASHINGTON POST: By Maura Judkis. Cue up a variation of every joke about the mile high club: One decommissioned airplane is about to be buried 38 feet below the Mojave Desert as a piece of installation art by Swiss artist Christoph Buchel. The 153-foot long Boeing 727 commercial jetliner will rest below a 5.3 acre plot of land near Boron, Calif. [more...]
BEELD: By Johan Myburg. Die Goodman-galery is die enigste Suid-Afrikaanse kunsgalery wat van 3 tot 8 Februarie deelneem aan die tweede VIP-kunsskou van internasionale kontemporêre kuns wat aanlyn aangebied word. [more...]
M&G: By Jeremy Kuper. A burst waste pipe at the Johannesburg Art Gallery has flooded the basement with sewage and is threatening to engulf two storerooms containing artworks, furniture and ceramics estimated by one insider to be worth R500-million.The one storeroom holds the gallery's contemporary art collection, with works by William Kentridge, Wim Botha, Jane Alexander and Nicholas Hlobo. The other includes furniture by Le Corbusier and Ming Dynasty porcelain. A source at the gallery told the Mail & Guardian: "We don't have money even to call in a plumber." [more...]
GOODMAN GALLERY: Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse have been selected to exhibit on State of the Art Photography at The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. “The future does not belong to pure photography, but to the free arts,” says Andreas Gursky, one of the advisors of the exhibition. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf asked for photographers who are tipped to be the movers and the shakers in this field in the coming years. [more...]
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HYPERALLERGIC: By Hrag Vartanian. Sure there was collage and assemblage before him, but what Pop artist James Rosenquist did in the 1960s is probably closer to our contemporary sensibilities about remix culture with its flattening of disparate images using a similar aesthetic that unifies jarring visuals into something new. [more...]
ARTS HUB: Francesco Vezzoli fans and die hard Prada label fans who were unable to get to Paris in the 24 hour window between Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th of January, has every reason to pull out their hair, for the launch of the latest museum sponsored by Prada and formulated by Vezzoli closed down 24 hours after the opening. The pop-up museum, named “The 24 h Museum”, was designed by Fransceo Vezzoli with AMO, the thinktank of Rem Koolhaas. Installed in the historic Palasia d'Iéna, the exhibit was divided in three sections in different areas of the ground floor of the building. [more...]
FINANCIAL TIMES: The Metropolitan Museum’s refurbished American Wing provides a fine home for its trove of US art: One of the world’s great museums just got even greater. These are thrilling times at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The renovated Islamic Wing made a debonair debut in October, and now it’s the turn of the American Wing, where refurbished galleries provide the consummate home for a trove of paintings and sculptures. [more...]
M&G: Maev Kennedy. It has taken eight years and more than one million Madagascar golden orb spiders to create a work of art "with the quality of a fairy story". It goes on display at the V&A museum in London this week. It goes on display at the V&A museum in London this week. Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley a textile artist and a designer and entrepreneur have created a shimmering golden cape from spider silk, a fabric not woven in more than a century.They stress that the spiders, big enough to cover the palm of a hand, were only "borrowed" from the forest, and returned after a day alive and kicking their eight legs. Peers said they are "only mildly venomous", but Godley has an impressive scar on his neck. [more...]
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HUFFINGTON POST: By Kittredge Cherry. A recent attack on a gay and lesbian nativity scene at a California church proves how much these liberating images are needed. My own queer nativity projects have gotten nasty accusations of blasphemy, so I was outraged but not surprised when I read news reports of the vandalism in Claremont, Calif. Attackers came in the night to knock over the same-sex couples in a manger scene at Claremont United Methodist Church. Police are investigating it as a hate crime. [more...]
THE NEW YORKER: The show, curated by Alissa LaGamma, focusses on sculptures that memorialize rulers and other exalted individuals of eight regional groups, spanning present frontiers from the Ivory Coast and Ghana to Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The works range from the twelfth century to the early twentieth. The most stunning creativity may be that of the Bangwa chiefdom of the vibrantly entrepreneurial Bamileke, of the Grassfields. A nineteenth-century wooden statue of a dancing priestess has a starry modern-art provenance.It was celebrated in Paris and New York in the nineteen-thirties, by Man Ray and Walker Evans. The figure is all palpably moving parts: mouth open, eyes raised, knees bent, weight shifted to the right leg, and breasts swaying. She wields a rattle. A pattern of bold striations repeats in the coiled hair, a necklace, and anklets. This work would hold its own in any collection of modern sculpture, cutting a vector from Rodin through Brancusi to Giacometti. [more...]
With
each of the three major auction houses holding
sales in the next couple of months, there's a
good deal of apprehension whether the softer trend
apparent in the market in the last quarter of
2011 will be sustained, extended, or - the least
likely outcome - reversed. Bonhams' Giles Peppiatt,
in SA on a final hunt for work for his firm's
March 21 auction in London, reckons that it was
more a case of buyers sitting on their hands at
a particularly difficult stage of the international
financial crisis than an intrinsic collapse in
demand, but concedes that this year's pipe-opener
will be less ambitious than last year. Read
more here
Stephan
Welz & Co. upcoming sale: Still dependent
on Irma
By
Michael Coulson
While
there are only three lots by Irma Stern (one
a minor graphic) and one Pierneef (a charcoal
study for one of his Joburg station panels),
the success of Stephan Welz & Co’s
first sale of 2012 still depends heavily on
the former artist. To be held at the Alphen
in Cape Town on February 21 and 22, the works
of SA art carry a gross low estimate of about
R17.2m, of which the Sterns contribute about
44%.
SA
art features in two of the four sessions. Session
two includes 130 lots, but the gross low estimate
is only about R715 000, while session three
includes 108 lots, with a gross low estimate
of about R16.5m. The two major Sterns, an African
Composition (estimate R4.5m-R5m) and a still
life (the second frontispiece, est R3m-R5m),
are the only low estimates of R1m-plus, though
a portrait by Ruth Everard-Haden (the overall
frontispiece, est R800 000-R1m) comes close.
The
rest of the top 12, with low estimates starting
at R350 000 and upwards, comprise a Stanley
Pinker landscape (the third frontispiece, est
R500 000-R550 000), two Tretchikoffs (The Merry
Widow, est R500 000-R700 00 and Penny Whistler,
est R400 000-R600 000), a Cecil Skotnes panel
(est R450 000-R550 000), two Pieter Wenning
landscapes (Pretoria, R450 000-R550 000, and
Joburg, R400 000-R500 000), an Erik Laubscher
abstract (the frontispiece to session three,
est R400 000-R500 000) and two Keith Alexander
landscapes (both est R350 000-R400 000).
More
than 130 artists are represented, a broader
spread than is sometimes found. Kenneth Baker
and Frans Claerhout have seven each, Gregoire
Boonzaaier, Tinus de Jongh and Francois Krige
six each.
Like
the first Cape show from rival Strauss &
Co, this is a more modest approach than last
year. Though the number of works is actually
higher than last year’s 232, the low estimate
is just under half 2011’s R35m. The international
art market has been remarkably buoyant, and
one can but hope that results of these two sales
will show that the last few months of 2011 were
only a pause in a bull market rather than the
bursting of a bubble. It may be significant,
however, that the illutsrations on neither the
front now back covers are of fine art lots.
Strauss
& Co.: Cape Town Sale:
Important
South African Art, Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
and Jewelry
Day
of sale:Monday 6 February 2012 @ 2pm
Venue:
Vineyard Hotel, Newlands, Cape town
Preview:
See Website closer to time
Walkabouts:
Conducted by Stephan Welz and Emma Bedford will take place on Saturday 4 February and Sunday 5 February at 11am.
Joshua
Miles: New Work 2012,
at The SA Print Gallery
Joshua
Miles, one of South Africa’s
most talented upcoming
printmakers is
currently
showing his latest work
at The South African Print
Gallery Until End
January 2012. www.printgallery.co.za
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