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.

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International and SA Litho Printmaking Boost     (08 Feb 10)
Rendezvous Art Project has organised a French South African series of exhib focussing on original lithography travelling through South Africa.  [more...]


Review: Melvyn Minnaar: Taking Pictures, Telling Stories at the Exposure Gallery until February 15.     (08 Feb 10)
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...]

Media Release: New Student Design Competition     (08 Feb 10)
1.618 Awards - PG BISON BREATHES NEW LIFE AND MEANING INTO COMPETITION FOR STUDENTS OF ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN
3 February 2010  [more...]

Michael Coulson: Recession What recession as Art Auctions sales boom     (08 Feb 10)
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...]

ACT Vacancy, for what its worth     (08 Feb 10)
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is seeking to appoint a dynamic, highly organised, creative and results-oriented individual as its General Manager.  [more...]

Pre-Post-Per-Form - colloquium on interdisciplinary and performance art     (08 Feb 10)
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...]

Press Release: Official Statement: National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2010 Funding     (05 Feb 10)
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.

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Joburg Art Fair 2010: Short preview by Michael Coulson     (04 Feb 10)
The recipe for the third Jo’burg Art Fair, at the Sandton Convention Centre from March 24-26, contains much the same ingredients as before.   [more...]

Scores of Artists let down by Dept of Arts and Culture as Department fails to deliver promised funds for World Cup 2010 projects     (04 Feb 10)
National Arts Festival longer ‘with or without R 150M’  [more...]

Ross Douglas, Director of The Joburg Art Fair Press launch speach, Tuesday 02 February 2010     (04 Feb 10)
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...]

FNB Bank boost for SA Fine Arts     (04 Feb 10)
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...]

Februarys Art Times and Business Art out on Friday     (03 Feb 10)
We are hard at work to bring you an amaizing edition. Daily updates will resume tomorrow, some good stories on the way  [more...]

Melvyn Minnaar Reviews: Exhibition: Gordon Clark and Leon Botha at the João Ferreira Gallery until February 13.     (02 Feb 10)
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...]

Lloyd Pollack reviews: Art is Long, Life is Shot by Steven Cohen at Michael Stevenson Gallery     (01 Feb 10)
MANHATTEN REAPS THE GRAPES OF WRATH

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...]

Michael Coulson: SWELCO Cape Sales Preview     (01 Feb 10)
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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