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BIG THINK: By Jason Gots. Italy, says Joseph Luzzi, is a chiaroscuro nation – a land of sharp contrasts. Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard College and the award-winning author of The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Cinema, calls Caravaggio – the "incarnation" of Italy's dualistic spirit.  [more...]

I LOVE WOODSTOCK: By Stefan Blank. ILW met up with Berlin-based photographer Katrina James (originally from Australia) and who has been living in Woodstock for the last few months. It’s always interesting to see how others perceive the place we live in, and Katrina’s pictures of Woodstock have a gentle humility about them. We asked her a few questions about her experience of living in Woodstock.  [more...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Roberta Smith. PHILADELPHIA — Vincent van Gogh was shaken but also calmed by nature. The natural landscape inspired some of his most implacably innovative paintings, roiled of surface, ablaze with color and steeped in feeling. They are blunt, irresistible instruments for seeing. Yet nature — and its tiniest details in particular — also sharpened his visual acuity and soothed and comforted his often unstable personality.  [more...]

BLOUIN ARTINFO: By Julia Halperin. Sotheby's Lockout Update: Negotiations Make Progress as Art Handlers Lose Health Care and the Auctioneer Loses Money  [more...]

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DIE BURGER: By Jody Nel. JOHANNESBURG. – Die uitsaaier e.tv moet R35000 opdok omdat hy grusame beelde van die dood van kol. Moeammar Ghaddafi, voormalige Libiese leier, in sy nuusbulletins uitgesaai het.Die Uitsaaiklagtekommissie van Suid-Afrika (UKKSA) het drie klagtes van kykers ontvang. Twee spruit uit nuusbulletins wat op eNews op DStv uitgesaai is en een uit beeldmate­riaal op e.tv se nuus. Volgens die UKKSA het eNews op 20 Oktober verlede jaar die subskripsiekode oortree deur nie ’n waarskuwing te gee voordat die gewelddadige beelde uitgesaai is nie. Die kanaal is weens dié versuim met R10000 beboet. Die kanaal het ook die subskripsiekode oortree omdat hy op 22 Oktober nie waarskuwings tydens die nuushoogtepunte, wat om 09:00, 09:30, 10:00, 10:30 en 11:00 uitgesaai is, verskaf het nie. eNews is met R5000 vir elk van die vyf oortredings beboet. Die kanaal moet die boetes van altesaam R35000 voor einde vandeesmaand betaal.  [more...]

M&G: By Sean O'Toole. The extras, all eight or nine of them, are seated, backs stiff, waiting in silence for their cue to come, well, alive. One of them, a debutante with soap-opera dreams, wears a yellow halter top and has a handbag shaped like a high-heel shoe. A voice, not quite godly, interjects from an invisible speaker in the fluorescent heavens of the cavernous SABC television studio where artist Candice Breitz has invited me to see the making of her latest work, Extra!"We're going to change points," the voice says. Queen Moroka (Sophie Ndaba) and Khethiwe Buthelezi (Winnie Modise), two key protagonists in Generations, the SABC's longest-running locally produced daily soap opera, greet the news with ­indifference.  [more...]

HUFFINGTON POST: By John Seed. Every Friday morning I teach a community college painting class of about 25 students. The classroom is quite full, and the beginning students paint on folding easels set on heavy formica topped tables, while a handful of advanced painters paint standing up, vying for space near the storage racks in the back of the classroom.   [more...]

ARTINFO: By Doug Harvey. Artist Mike Kelley passed away on Tuesday. The following article, about Kelley's groundbreaking work with the group Destroy All Monsters, is the cover story in the upcoming March issue of Modern Painters.  [more...]

ARTDAILY: Associated Press. ROME (AP).- In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.   [more...]

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ART SMART: The nominees have been announced for the 2012 Emma Smith Scholarship Award by Francesca Verga, Curator at the Durban University of Technology’s Art Gallery. At the ceremony on February 1, the winner will walk away with a R40,000 scholarship. The award was incepted in 1920 by KwaZulu-Natal sugar industry magnate, Sir Charles Smith. Named after his mother, Smith’s endowment was made in appreciation of the work of visionary Art School Head John Adams.  [more...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES: By Grace Glueck. Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 101.Her death was confirmed by Mimi Johnson, a niece. Married for 30 years to the Surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst, Ms. Tanning became well known in her own right for her vivid renderings of dream imagery. Much later in life, after she had reached 80, she gained a different kind of attention when she began to concentrate on writing, producing a novel, an autobiography and poems that appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review and The Paris Review. As a Surrealist artist, Ms. Tanning mined her unconscious, producing disturbing images like “Maternity” (1946), showing a troubled mother, her long gown ripped to rags at the belly, holding a fretful baby. At her feet lies a poodle with a child’s face. Like other Surrealist painters, she was meticulous in her attention to details and in building up surfaces with carefully muted brushstrokes. But in the mid-1950s Ms. Tanning broke from the mirrorlike precision of narrative Surrealism to take up what she called her “prism” paintings, later renamed “Insomnias.”   [more...]

MID DAY: By: Shashank Shekhar Painter attacked at a gallery in the Capital, where he is exhibiting a number of nude paintings of Vidya Balan, Veena Malik and Poonam Pandey. In yet another blot on artistic freedom of expression in the country, five unknown men, miffed with kitsch paintings put on show at a gallery, assaulted artist Pranava Prakash yesterday. Prakash was attacked while he was showcasing his paintings of Bollywood celebs in the nude at Espace Alternative gallery in Noida. The miscreants were heard saying that Prakash's paintings were "against Indian culture", before they stormed in and tore the works.  [more...]

CTV NEWS: The Associated Press: MADRID, Spain — Spain's Prado Museum says it has a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" that was painted at the same time as the original in the same studio, perhaps making it the earliest replica of the masterpiece.  [more...]

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BEELD: By Elaine Swanepoel. Vir mnr. Rudi Venter, wenner van Beeld en Canon se fotokompetisie, was dit ’n “aangename verrassing” toe sy foto van reën in die Namib-woestyn as die beste uit agt finaliste gekies is.
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NBC MIAMI: Associated Press: Mike Kelley, the daring and influential contemporary installation artist who counted the band Sonic Youth and artist Paul McCarthy among his collaborators, has died, police said Wednesday. He was 57. Kelley's body was found at his home Tuesday night and it appeared he had committed suicide, South Pasadena Police Sgt.   [more...]

INCORRIGIBLE CORRIGALL: By Mary Corrigall. When Diane Victor first started making smoke drawings, it was to direct attention to victims of violent crime. The medium was ideal for this purpose; the transparent brown residue the smoke imprinted on the paper articulated the spectral presence of the disembodied heads of deceased victims. The burning candles which she used to scorch the paper’s surface evoked rituals to remember the dead.More pragmatic concerns may have also informed her use of this unconventional medium. In 2006 she was a finalist for the now-defunct Sasol Wax Art Awards, which demanded that artists use wax in creating art for the competition exhibition. Working with wax may have been a crippling limitation for most of the artists, but it seems to have set Victor’s aesthetic on a new path. It is easy to see why someone so concerned with mark-making was attracted to using smoke; it leaves such a compelling mark, or stain – “stain” best describes the kind of imprint this ephemeral tool creates.   [more...]

ART FAG CITY: By Will Brand. If you have any kind of career in the art world, Massimiliano Gioni should make you feel bad.   [more...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES: By Roberta Smith. The painter Fu Baoshi was born in China in 1904, seven years before the Chinese Revolution brought 2,100 years of dynastic rule to an end.   [more...]

MAIL ONLINE: By Graham Smith. A Russian street artist who has left a growing collection of flamboyant guerilla art around Moscow has been dubbed the new Banksy. Known only as P183 - or Bankski, due to the similarity of his work to the British artist - the mysterious figure has attracted considerable interest from the art world.  [more...]

Transnational Modernism: The Gutai Art Association, Christo Coetzee and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in South Africa: An exhibition entitled Transnational Modernism: The Gutai Art Association, Christo Coetzee and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in South Africa, will be presented by UJ Arts and Culture at the UJ Art Gallery during February 2012.  [more...]

EXHIBITIONS OPENING Monday @ artSPACE durban:

Opening Monday, 6 February at 6:30pm Cash bar and car guards at the opening.


Phoneography– a group exhibition for all smartphone camera users

Taking pictures with a smartphone (or a cellphone that has a camera) has become so popular, it even has its own name: iPhoneography, or smartphoneography for those who do not own an Apple mobile phone. Users have been taking a lot of cool pix on their phones and now would like others to see them besides on Instagram and other sites and have a chance to sell them in a gallery environment.

All of the works fit the format of 12cm x 12cm wooden blocks onto which the image(s) is mounted. The sale price of each block is set at R100 each.



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M&G: An Indian artist said on Monday he had been beaten up at his gallery by five men over nude paintings of actresses and models that the attackers claimed were an insult to the country. Pranava Prakash was assaulted by the gang who burst into the gallery in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, where he is exhibiting nudes of top Bollywood star Vidya Balan and other public figures. "Five guys came in on Sunday and started yelling at me, saying 'Your paintings are against Indian culture, we cannot tolerate them'," he said. "They slapped me twice, threw me to the floor and then began pulling down the paintings, damaging three of my pictures," he said.

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ARTSMART: An international exhibition, it looks at the current HIV/AIDS situation where theoretically there is wide-spread availability of treatment. How is the current reality affecting the lives of individuals and our society? This exhibition represents a variety of artworks examining both the triumphs and trials of this new phase in the AIDS epidemic.  [more...]

AFRICAN COLOURS: By Basia Lewandowska Cummings. Zarina Bhimji’s exhibition at The Whitechapel Gallery is the first major survey of her work, documenting 25 years of her artistic practice. Throughout various mediums — photographs, films and sculpture — Bhimji’s attention is shown to lie on the layering of human histories upon objects, and although she strongly states she is not addressing the history of colonialism and her own experiences as a Ugandan in the 1970s, her work inevitably touches on this history.   [more...]

ARTINFO BLOUIN: By Coline Milliard. Like Charles Saatchi, British collector Frank Cohen was a staunch supporter of the YBAs before falling for the Indian and Chinese contemporary art craze. But next month, the man who describes himself as once being a "compulsive buyer" is opening to the public part of his collection that goes back to his very first purchase in the 1970s: a postcard-sized L.S. Lowry painting.  [more...]

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AFRICAN COLOURS: By Krydz Ikwuemesi. Funeral in Africa has never been a mere act of interment marked by rites of passage, but an important performance on the social stage conditioned by the incident and social perception of death. Like much art, a funeral aims to solve a social problem. It is a creative exercise that complements the incident of death and mediates the physical and spiritual realms.  [more...]

BEELD: By Jani Meyer. Kunswerke ter waarde van meer as R500 000 is die afgelope jaar uit die Johannesburgse Kunsmuseum gesteel – moontlik selfs as skrootmetaal. Hoewel die kunswerke verseker is, weier die versekeraar om te betaal aangesien daar geen bewys van inbraak is nie. Luidens ’n geskrewe antwoord op ’n vraag van me. Nonhlanhla Sifumba, DA-raadslid, op ’n metroraadsvergadering is vyf kunswerke, insluitend dié van internasionale kunstenaars, gesteel. Die kunstenaars wie se werk voete gekry het, is Jules Dalou, Tracey Rose, Ernest Ullman, Sydney Kumalo en Romano Romanelli. Die Dalou, genaamd Genl. Lazare Hoche, is ’n bronsbeeldhouwerk wat dateer van die laat 19de eeu. Die 71 cm-kunswerk is Woensdag 12 Januarie uit die museum gesteel en is R250 000 werd. Hoche was ’n Franse soldaat wat later generaal geword het.  [more...]

HYPERALLERGIC: By Hrag Vartanian. Yesterday, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” was award the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The in-depth documentary follows the life of one of the world’s most renowned and provocative artists over the last few years as he has been catapulted into news headlines.  [more...]

THE MIAMI HERALD: By Matt Sedensky. Boca Raton Say goodbye to the twirling carousel, the rows of perfectly shined classic cars, the player pianos and jukeboxes. They’re selling all the neon signs, the slot machines, the antique guns, the Tiffany lamps, the hulking chandeliers. There will be no more rare organs or vintage gas pumps or the Army airplane gliding overhead, none of this out-of-this-world collection that took a lifetime to amass.  [more...]

THE TELEGRAPH: By Richard Dorment. Richard Dorment reviews Migrations at the Tate Britain. From the New English Art Club in the 1890s to the Young British Artists a century later – and with the Newlyn, Camden Town, Vorticist, Bloomsbury, Kitchen Sink, Euston Road, St Ives and school of London painters in between – let’s face it: even those of us who love British art have to admit that most of it is pretty second rate.  [more...]

German Art Training That Gave New Insights into Africa

When does a work of art become part of a country’s national heritage? Bonhams next sale of South African Art on 21st March 2012 in New Bond Street, London, may go some way towards answering that question when ‘Zulu Woman’ by Irma Stern goes under the hammer.

Painted in 1935 at the height of her creative powers by South Africa’s leading artist, Irma Stern, it is estimated to sell for £400,000 to £600,00. As Irma Stern’s reputation is without equal in the field of South African art and the image is an iconic one of African womanhood from one of South Africa’s leading tribes, there is every reason to believe it qualifies as something very special.
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From 16 March to 25 March 2012, the factory building at 281 Commissioner Street will house The Trinity Session and Hobbs/Neustetter's ‘REVIEW’ exhibition titled 10YRS ONAIR. From Johannesburg to Dakar, Martinique to Mali, Mozambique and Sandton Central; The Trinity Session’s two members, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, have extended an investigation into social and electronic networks and varied urban terrains. For South African art lovers, this is a rare opportunity to see The Trinity Session’s groundbreaking work, developed over 10 years and displayed on local ground. The pair spends a great deal of their time abroad, and local fans can finally catch them up close and personal.
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SIBISI GALLERY OPENS IN MELROSE ARCH ON FEBRUARY
16TH

February 1 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa ? February 16th is the day 25
year old Thandi Sibisi will open the doors of her Melrose Arch,
Johannesburg art space - SIBISI, and become South Africa?s first black,
female art gallery owner.
Thandi Sibisi says her ?Elegant, exclusive and sophisticated gallery with a youthful touch, vibrancy and flair? will not only show case South
African artists every month, but will also have a strong Pan African and
international component thanks to partnerships she?s established
globally. Sibisi?s first exhibitions will be handled by renowned curator
Christopher Till, director of The Apartheid Museum.
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BIG THINK: Bob Duggan. If you know the name of artist Chris Burden, you probably think pain: shooting, electrocution, and even crucifixion. Although Burden ended his agonizing exploits over 35 years ago, those performance art pieces remain his most memorable work. Metropolis II (shown above), a gigantic kinetic sculpture featuring 1,100 custom-made die-cast cars and 13 model train sets racing and stalling in a chaos of traffic now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, threatens to shoot down the old perceptions and make the art world see Chris Burden anew. But why is Burden, the man who once allowed himself to be nailed to a Volkswagen Beetle, playing in traffic again?  [more...]

ARTINFO: By Kyle Chayka. At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, Chinese artist Xu Bing is showing some highly addictive work. His installation, called “Tobacco Project,” uses the eponymous poisonous leaf as its muse and medium, turning the material into maps, books, and printed poems that confront the omnipresent ills of a nicotine-dependent culture.  [more...]

ART DAILY: Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has since become known as tabloid journalism. In fact, for one intense decade, between 1935 and 1946, Weegee was perhaps the most relentlessly inventive figure in American photography. A surprising new exhibition at the International Center of Photography, titled Weegee: Murder Is My Business and organized by ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, presents some rare examples of Weegee’s most famous and iconic images, and considers his early work in the context of its original presentation in historical newspapers and exhibitions, as well as Weegee’s own books and films.   [more...]

Cape Town will be the first African stop for the Australian Government’s latest touring art exhibition, Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia.

The Message Stick exhibition features 21 significant works by 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who are at the forefront of the contemporary arts scene in Australia.

According to Australia’s High Commissioner to South Africa, HE Ann Harrap, the works present unique political and social perspectives of contemporary Australian history and culture. The images are dynamic, sometimes influenced by experiences of dislocation and loss, but also infused with humour, energy and optimism.
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APEXART: curated by:
Katharina Rohde

Opening on Saturday, February 4, 2012

Alexandra Township
Johannesburg, South Africa

Featuring works by artists including:
Buhlebezwe Siwani
Keabetswe Mokwena & Reatile Mokwena
Claire Rousell & students from the Market Theatre Photo Workshop & The University of Johannesburg

For the fourth year, apexart's Franchise will present exhibitions somewhere else. Through an open call, two exhibitions were selected by a jury, and apexart will provide financing, advice, and an accompanying brochure to the two winners. The first exhibition, Just do it!, will be presented in South Africa this February, and the second winner, Flesh and Concrete, will be presented in Mexico this spring. Learn more about the Franchise Program.

The exhibition Just do it! Creative strategies of survival brings focus to local small scale businesses in Johannesburg, South Africa and examines the challenges that they face within the global economy. Five or more spazas, small family owned convenience stores that are similar to New York City's bodegas, in the township of Alexandra will host the exhibition, which aims to bring about an awareness of the potential in the so called "informal economy" as well as the challenges it faces such as lack of business education, issues of proper licensing an financing, as well as the abundance of competition among the spaza shops themselves.

Just do it! will exhibit site-specific interventions that deal with the phenomena of local small scale enterprises like Spaza shops, highlighting the challenges, struggles and opportunities that come with informal entrepreneurship. Works will reflect on the relationship between local business and strategies of survival within the context of the global economy.


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HUFFINGTON POST: By Colin Darke. Sorry for that language. I love artists. I've been an artist my entire life. And I love myself. Most artists love themselves.Three out of hundreds and hundreds of my self portraits. The New York Times knows that artists can save the world. Artists can lift the spirit so that everyone feels better, so everyone hugs one another, so every place is filled with rainbows (not real rainbows, maybe graffiti rainbows or rainbows made out of discarded car parts).True story: a carjacker jumped into the back of my car, put a gun to my head, and told me to drive. I said, "Miss, please don't hurt me. I am an artist. You can take a photograph I took of the abandoned rail road station that is in my portfolio that takes up the whole backseat next to you. No questions asked." She shuffled through my portfolio, and then she said abruptly, "stop the car." She jumped out and ran. She was no doubt running home to show her significant other my beautiful photograph.   [more...]

HYPERALLERGIC: By An Xiao. In a recent essay for the AFC art blog, Will Brand lambasted the recent dot work of Damien Hirst with a memorable line: These spots reflect nothing about how we live, see, or think, they’re just some weird meme for the impossibly rich that nobody knows how to stop.   [more...]

THE TELEGRAPH: By Roya Nikkhah. A major new exhibition of Lucian Freud's works will feature previously unseen sketches from his childhood alongside portraits of his parents and his children.  [more...]

BLOUIN ARTINFO: By Madeleine O'Dea. When you are showing millions of dollars worth of art, it only makes sense to have some muscle around.   [more...]

DIE BURGER: Laetitia Pople. ’n Keur van 33 kunswerke deur die kunstenaar Walter Battiss sal tydens die Suidoosterfees van 14 tot 19 Februarie in die Kunstekaap-foyer in Kaapstad vertoon word. Die werke is nog nie voorheen in Kaapstad gesien nie. Hoewel Battiss (1906-1982) nooit ’n tipiese styl ontwikkel het nie, kan jy amper altyd ’n Battiss herken, sê Stefan Hundt, kurator van Van die ooste ingewaai.   [more...]

AFRICAN COLOURS: By The Artists Press. In these lithographs Diane Victor takes on the issue of China’s relationship to Africa. Miss September is a teenager dangling a posy of blossoms over the nose of a rhino skull. The poaching of rhino and sexploitation of young women are depicted with the finest lines.  [more...]

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BBC: By Vincent Dowd. With the media full of coverage of A Bigger Picture, Hockney's new show of Yorkshire landscapes at the Royal Academy, the 1970s movie A Bigger Splash is a reminder of the fashionable young artist before he became the Grand Old Man of British art and seems to anticipate elements of reality TV by three decades.  [more...]

THE NEW YORK TIMES: By Carol Vogel. The American version of London’s annual Frieze Art Fair, which makes its debut in New York in May, wants to be more than just another place to see and buy contemporary art. Using its unusual and remote location – the 256-acre Randall’s Island, in the East River between East Harlem, the South Bronx and Astoria, Queens – it has commissioned eight artists to construct what is calls “a temporary pop-up village.’’  [more...]

TIMES LIVE: Sapa-AFP. A sombre painting by a Dutch master that used to hang over a fireplace in the California home of the late film star Elizabeth Taylor sold Wednesday for $2.01 million, Christie's said. The winning bid in New York more than doubled pre-sale estimates of $700 000 to $1 million, mirroring frenzied competition for Taylor's vast wardrobe and jewellery collection which sold for $156.8 million in December at Christie's. The painting, Portrait of a Gentleman, half-length, in a black coat, was executed by 17th century Dutch master Frans Hals.It was the sole Old Master work owned by Taylor, who favoured flashier art and ornaments, and was only authenticated as a Hals in 2011, having previously been thought to be the work of a follower. "The elegant portrait of a gentleman had been displayed above the fireplace in Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air home," Christie's said.  [more...]

THE 99%: By Jocelyn K. Glei. Though I am guilty of using it from time to time, I’ve never particularly cared for the word "productivity," which is defined as (1) the "quality of being productive," and (2) the "rate of output per unit." While it's easy to imagine how to control for output in certain contexts -- say, turning out 100 widgets of equal quality from your factory each day -- it's much more difficult to guarantee that you'll write 10 pages of exactly equal quality for your novel each day.  [more...]

GOOD NIGHT, A PROVACTIVE ART EXHBITION EXPLORING THE POWER AND FRAGILITY OF WOMEN

Established South African artist, Heike Davies, will hold her first solo exhibition since 2005, at the Barnard Gallery from the 2nd of February 2012. The exhibition entitled “Good-Night”, will feature bold figurative mixed media paintings that explore the power of female sexuality. This powerful exhibition explores the contradictory perceptions of women as objects of desire, abuse and fear.   [more...]

The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), in collaboration with the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) and The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), will be hosting Futures of Nature/Facts that Matter, on 7 February at 17:00 at Hiddingh Hall.  [more...]

About to open at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg is Candice Breitz: Extra!

About to open at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg is Candice Breitz: Extra! - the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the artist’s work to be presented in South Africa. The show, presented by Standard Bank in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and Goodman Gallery, runs from 8 February until 5 April, 2012. Breitz, who was born in Johannesburg but now lives and works in Berlin, is an internationally renowned artist who has exhibited her photographs and video installations worldwide.
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OF DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES

Jaco van den Heever


This exhibition documents the chronicles of an ever-changing landscape.
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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...]

01 FEBRUARY – 14 MARCH 2012 It is with great pleasure that Brundyn + Gonsalves presents Periphery, Tom Cullberg’s 10th solo exhibition of paintings.

Periphery finds Cullberg navigating the borderland between the tangible and intangible and is the first solo exhibition in which his abstracts will be experienced alongside his signature cover portraits. Despite the seemingly separate elements, it is undoubtedly a homogenous body of work; the combination of abstract paint-scapes and representational cover portraits never feels disparate. The two styles work together to flesh out Cullberg’s painterly objectives.
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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...]

FINANCIAL TIMES: By Edwin HeathcoteWith his conversion of a former exhibition space, John Pawson could do for design what Tate Modern did for contemporary art  [more...]

ARTTHROB: By M Blackman. According to the chairman of the Visual Arts Network of South Africa Western Cape (VANSA-WC), Jonathan Garnham, VANSA-WC is in ‘a process of reducing its overheads and subletting its premises.’ The decision to downsize was taken after the news that the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) would not be renewing its funding allocation to the Western Cape branch of the network.   [more...]

TIMES LIVE: Reuters. "Evolution not revolution" reads the sign he plans to place over the conservative Islamic kingdom, where an exhibition organisers call Saudi Arabia's first public show of contemporary art has opened this month, entitled "We need to talk."   [more...]

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GALLERIST NY: By Dan Duray. News might not have broken last week that the lawsuit between Larry Gagosian and collector Robert Wylde had been settled for $4.4 million if a second lawsuit had not emerged from it. This one was filed last week by lawyers for Jan Cowles, the 93-year-old mother of Charles Cowles who, according to that lawsuit, sold a painting to the dealer by Mark Tansey that was, in fact, partially owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (that painting is now fully owned by the museum). The new lawsuit seeks some $14 million from Mr. Gagosian for various alleged misdeeds in the sale of Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl in Mirror, a porcelain-enamel-on-steel work from 1964.   [more...]

HYPERALLERGIC: By Claire Breukel. Two weeks ago, I wrote an article that covered a talk by Hans Abbing who authored the book Why Are Artists Poor?. The event was hosted by W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy). The incentive behind this presentation was to set the tone for a much larger debate concerning the fair and systematic payment of artists.W.A.G.E. describe themselves as, “An activist group of artists, art workers, performers and independent curators fighting to get paid for making the world more interesting.” Where I am often wary of workers unions becoming hamstrung by bureaucracy, W.A.G.E. seems to be very clear about positioning themselves in a sphere that is realistic for the creative field and with viable and attainable goals. The question now it seems is how to make a payment system sustainable. In order to get the ball rolling on implementing a standard system (and hopefully writing in artist payments as a line item within organizational budgets), W.A.G.E. partnered with Artists Space who agreed to be the test case and potentially to become the first W.A.G.E.-certified art space.  [more...]

RH: REPORTER HERALD.COM: By Kenneth Jessen. Stephen Spears came from a military family that moved from place to place. Ever since he was a child, he has been drawing. In Japan, Spears took ink painting classes and at age 8, took drawing classes in Texas. Yearbook covers and a comic strip characters followed in high school. When he graduated, Spears was asked, "Now what are you going to do?" -- but he knew that art was his identity. He selected a career in drafting and through hard work over many years, became an engineer. He worked as a contractor for big companies such as Siemens, Burrows and Bendix ending up at IBM's Custom Products Group. Spears continued to create his own art and became aware that his work was sought after by collectors. After many years in drafting and engineering, Spears set out to make a living as an artist. He met some success selling his work at the Indian Market in Santa Fe, but what changed his life was meeting Wyoming sculptor Vic Payne.Payne introduced Spears to the casting process. Spears realized that representational work must be pushed beyond reality to make it interesting. A cancellation allowed Spears to attend the Scottsdale Artists School.   [more...]

The Johannesburg Art Gallery is proud to host the exhibition A Fragile Archive curated by Nontobeko Ntombela.


A Fragile Archive investigates the role of history, memory and archive in the public positioning of two pioneering artists, Gladys Mgudlandlu and Valerie Desmore.


In the early 60s Mgudlandlu was acclaimed as South Africa's first black women artist. In spite of the fact that recent scholarly research has shown this claim to be inaccurate, such an acclaim had a significant impact in the way her art is positioned. The intention of this exhibition is to understand the context of this acclaim in relation to South Africa's political past and the way Western ideologies have influenced the development of image-making in South Africa. This historical context has influenced the way these artists' archives have been construed. One of the consequences of this legacy of aesthetic, technical and conceptual discrepancies is a differentiation between the work of self-taught and academically trained artists, often privileging the latter and dismissing the former.

Research taken up by scholars in the 80s has revealed many other artists operating during Mgudlandlu's period and prior. Artist such Valerie Desmore, whose working period predates Mgudlandlu, only made a reappearance in South Africa in the late 90s. This brings forth many questions about the way South African art history is written and understood. The neglect of Desmore's contribution (from the early 40s), speaks to the manner in which the authority and control of valuing systems of that time influenced the writing of art history.

Even though Desmore's reappearance on the South African Art scene dates to the late 1990s, the wider public knows very little of this artist. In fact, inaccuracies and discrepancies regarding the position of artists such as Mgudlandlu and Desmore are still repeated, and this has bearing on the complexities and contradictions of the making, management and meaning of archives.

This exhibition aims to examine the contribution of these two pioneers through issues of history, memory and archive. It questions the way that their position is understood and written by restaging Mgudlandlu's first public exhibition held in 1961.

The exhibition further consists of several installations, including Valerie Desmore's works currently held by public institutions and selected pieces by other black women artists from JAG's collection.


The Johannesburg Art Gallery is located in Joubert Park with the entrance in King George Street (off Wolmarans or Smith depending on the direction that you are coming from).


For more information contact: Nontobeko Ntombela, Curator: Contemporary Collection at 011 7253130 or email nontobekon@gmail.com
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Iziko Museums hosts its annual Summer School, Thoughtful Reflections on our Art, History and Heritage’ from 4-25 February 2012.

Museums play an important role in collecting, conserving and connecting people to our cultural heritage. The Iziko Summer School creates a public platform for sharing perspectives, discussion and igniting the connections between our past, present and future. The theme: ‘Thoughtful reflections on our Art, History and Heritage’ was inspired by the ANC’s Centenary Celebrations, and provides an ideal opportunity to consider the role of heritage, history and art.
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HUFFINGTON POST: A new exhibition gives color, so often viewed as part of an artwork's style, a chance to be treated as its substance. 'Figuring Color' explores the manifold ways color constructs our identities and communicates our emotions. The objects featured in the exhibition range from canvases emoting war to candy piles, but color gives each work pop, zest, and power.  [more...]

HYPERALLERGIC: By John Yau. “You do know, don’t you, that even well-meaning people are pawns for the powerful, and when it comes right down to it, humans are best thought of as oversized prawns waiting to be plucked from their beds of ice? Personally, I like to methodically squeeze the plumpest and pinkest ones between my thumb and forefinger, really smooth them out, before swallowing them whole.”  [more...]

ART FAG CITY: By Reid Singer. Young journalists who gripe about the lack of opportunities to make their talents known should take a lesson from Alison Klayman. While her documentary, “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” has profited handily from certain accidents of timing, it’s obvious that she has made her own good luck.   [more...]

DIE BURGER: By Marilyn Martin. Alhoewel die Suid-Afrikaanse Vriende-organisasies nie met hul eweknieë in Amerika en Europa vergelyk kan word nie, dra hulle dekades lank al by tot die welsyn en vooruitgang van die visuele kunste en kunsmuseums.  [more...]

BEELD: By Johan Myburg. Dat Diane Victor se werke, veral die meer onlangse rook- en as-werke, wyd aandag trek, is algemene kennis.
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AFRICAN COLOURS: By Rikki Wemega Kwawu. There is a phenomenon emerging in Europe and America as regards the curating of contemporary African art shows and the publication of surveys on the subject. It is without doubt that African artists living in the West are preferred and circulated well above their counterparts living in Africa. If it is an exhibition, the number of foreign-based artists always outweighs the continent-based. If it is the latest book survey on contemporary African art, it is all about African Diaspora artists, dotted with one or two well-known names from the African continent. The same representative names are re-circulated from one show to the other, from one book publication to the other, as if contemporary African art is caught in a static frieze of a granite rock. This emergent development of contemporary African art curatorship is harmful and detrimental to the growth of contemporary art on the mother continent.  [more...]

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HUFFINGTON POST: By Patricia Crisafulli. The lament of the frustrated artist often goes something like this: "If I won the lottery, then I could pursue my art."   [more...]

SA Art Times: 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.  [more...]

“Is that gluten free?” asked a woman behind me, in response to an offer of peanut butter on toast offered by one of the cast members of “Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good).” Before the show begins, the audience is invited to take a tour of the stage cum movie studio where it will be performed.“There’s no such thing as gluten in the 1960s,” came the answer, delivered with a smile and just a little bit of British cheek. The movie studio on the stage at the Public Theater, where this smart, goofy and surprisingly moving show is playing through Feb. 5, is a makeshift mockup of Andy Warhol’s Factory, or at least the filmmaking part of it, around 1965.   [more...]

By Lloyd Pollak: The discovery of a new artist whose creative identity stands out like the proverbial dog’s balls is a thrilling event, and Stuart Bird’s first solo, Promise Land at the Goodman, provides just such a high. This young Michaelis graduate demonstrates a complete understanding of conceptualism, and an ability to overcome its dry astringency and push it to the limit of its expressive potential.   [more...]

artSPACE durban's Annual Affordable Art Show is one of our most popular exhibitions since it's inception 9 years ago. We manage to collect and select a wide range of fine art keeping the prices down. The maximum sale price is R3 500 this year. This year we have 75 participating artists exhibiting a variety of medium from oil paintings, ceramics, sculptures, prints, photographs, and more. What makes this exhibition a bit different is that when you buy a work you may take it with you!

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Opening: Thursday 2 February 18:00. Exhibition closes 25 February.

The exhibition UNACCEPTABLE combines various elements drawn from researched material and memory. The term is a label for that which is outside of the norms in society.

Drawing from a collection of various ‘love’ territories previously inhabited by the artist, a fragile and personal point of view emerges from a space that has previously been framed as ‘political’.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: By Gina McIntyre and Susan King. For the first time in nearly eight decades, a black-and-white silent film is the favorite to take home the best picture Oscar.  [more...]

ARTINFO: By Graham Fuller. The veteran Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura is to direct a film about Pablo Picasso’s emotional upheaval during the painting of “Guernica” in 1937. To be titled “33 Dias,” the movie will be produced by Elias Querejeta, who has worked with Saura on 11 previous occasions.  [more...]

THE TELEGRAPH: By Alastair Sooke. Stand right in front of Gary Hume’s sumptuously bold, bright, glossy art at White Cube in Hoxton Square and Mason's Yard and you’ll find subtleties that you never expected, says Alastair Sooke  [more...]

ARTTHROB: By Michael Smith. The Johannesburg Art Gallery’s contemporary, furniture and ceramic collections are under threat from the building complex’s blocked sewerage system, an insider has told ArtThrob.The storerooms housing the threatened collections, which are estimated to be worth around R500 million, could be flooded with sewerage and water from the gallery’s blocked drains if the problem is not urgently resolved.  [more...]

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FINANCIAL TIMES: By David Pilling. The dame of the Japanese avant-garde talks about obsession and fame: Yayoi Kusama is 82 years old. But when she is wheeled in, on her blue polka-dotted wheelchair, she looks more like a baby, the sort you might see played by an adult in a British pantomime.   [more...]

LOHUD.COM. MAMARONECK: By Colin Gustafson. A local artist is considering removing her paintings from an exhibit at the village library after a piece valued at $1,000 went missing over the weekend. Diana Durantel of Mamaroneck said she was shocked to find her acrylic painting “Reflection” gone from the library’s gallery when she visited Monday to drop off fliers for her new exhibit there. Durantel said she notified library staff, who were unable to track down the painting; she later filed a police report. “What I find horrible is the library is trying to promote young artists, and somebody is stealing our art,” Durantel said Monday. None of her other 19 paintings in “Life Bloom,” the Romanian-born artist’s first exhibit at the library, is missing. Susan Riley, the library’s new director, said Monday that she had notified the library’s board and was reviewing security footage. Village police did not respond to a message seeking comment. “Life Bloom” is expected to run through Feb. 12; its opening reception, however, had been postponed due to the Saturday snowstorm.  [more...]

NEWS GUIDE: New online book reveals secret message on Sistine Chapel ceiling. Is there a secret message embedded on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling? Was exhausted artist Michelangelo Buonarroti so overcome by the time his masterpiece was complete that he added one final, hidden touch, What unknown element may have been peering down on visitors to that famous chapel for the past five centuries?   [more...]

THE INDEPENDENT: By Nick Clark. Three art lovers travelled thousands of miles and spent thousands of dollars in pursuit of a personally dedicated spot print from Damien Hirst. And hundreds more are set to follow. The Gagosian Gallery this month put on simultaneous exhibitions of the British artist's spot paintings in its 11 sites around the world. Hirst and the gallery's top brass promised a print to those fans who visited each one. Millicent Wilner, a director of the Gagosian Gallery in London, said: "This was structured as a global exhibition.Damien and the gallery thought it would be extraordinary if someone made it to every location. He felt that whoever did should be rewarded with some artwork."Valentine Uhovski was the first to complete the challenge when he walked into the Gagosian's Davies Street space in London on Friday, eight days after setting out from New York.  [more...]

curated by:
Katharina Rohde

Join the opening:
Saturday, February 4, 2012: 12-4 pm
on 13th Avenue in Alexandra

Alexandra Township
Johannesburg, South Africa

Featuring works by artists including:
Sipho Charles Gwala
Keabetswe Mokwena & Reatile Mokwena
Claire Rousell
Buhlebezwe Siwani


Workshops & Happenings Every Saturday
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Design Indaba is proud to announce the selection of aspiring creative talents to feature in this year’s Emerging Creatives programme at the Design Indaba Expo 2012.

Courtesy of the Department of Arts and Culture, the selected Emerging Creatives will have full sponsorship to showcase their creative work at Design Indaba Expo 2012, as well as a ticket to attend the Young Designers Simulcast of the Design Indaba Conference.
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THE message of the Portraits of Resilience Exhibition, which is being hosted by Ethekwini Municipality’s Libraries and Heritage Department, is that people should not be helpless victims of climate change.
The exhibition, which can be viewed at the Durban Natural Science Museum Research Centre, was installed during the Cop17 Conference last year, and will be up until the beginning of April.  [more...]

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HYPERALLERGIC: By Kate Wadkins. Queer arts have been gaining momentum and paying healthy homage to history as they take root in Brooklyn. On the heels of an eventful December with World AIDS Day events throughout the city, Illegitimate And Herstorical opened at A.I.R. Gallery on January 5. Curated by Emily Roysdon (a collaborator with MEN and a founder of “feminist genderqueer” artist collective LTTR), Illegitimate And Herstorical is one of the strongest group shows culled from open-call submissions that I’ve seen of late.  [more...]

INCORRIGIBLE CORRIGALL: By Mary Corrigall. 1. New Adventures by Jacques Coetzer (Goethe Institut in Joburg) Coetzer might have proved that goats do not make ideal audience members for a guitar solo, and amused viewers with images of himself dressed up as Elvis while strumming a guitar on a beach in Zanzibar, but this flippant and self-deprecating exhibition parodying the status of the artist (and art) was extraordinary for the fact that it made the act of art-making transparent. It was not the process of making a material object or documentation of a performance that he presented but rather, via a narrative which plotted the mental associations he explored as he clicked links on web pages, he revealed how the internet has impacted on creative thought patterns, leading to absurd results. Because his filmed performances were amusing diversions, he redirected attention to the formation of ideas, though he showed that the realisation of them lacked any monumentality. In this way the exhibition was both entertaining and provocative.  [more...]

HUFFINGTON POST: By Soren Peterson. Art is a powerful emotional tool for creating awareness and fostering a commitment to change the world, even if each print makes just a small dent. Think Uncle Sam's "I Want You For The U.S. Army," Apple's "Think Different" and the "Wonderful Copenhagen" poster with a police officer helping a mother duck across the street with her small ducklings. If you want to disseminate information quickly and engage people, thought-provoking art posters are an effective medium.The "Save The Alps" poster, designed by Per Arnoldi, the Danish designer, artist, and TV and radio host is one such encouraging story. The "Save The Alps" story illustrates how two men engaged the financial elite and made an important and visible difference in a mountain world.At the World Economic Forum's meeting in Davos, Switzerland, 1990, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, then president of the Bellerive Foundation, solicited Arnoldi to create a limited series art poster to elicit funding for saving the Alps.  [more...]

THE TELEGRAPH: By Andrew Graham-Dixon. There is 'a suppressed charge of melancholy behind the bright surfaces' of many of David Hockney's new landscapes, says Andrew Graham-Dixon.Who on earth is David Hockney? His blockbusting new show at the Royal Academy leaves the question open. One thing is for sure: who, nowadays, he is not.  [more...]

FINANCIAL TIMES: By Rahul Jacob. In 1960 the Indian artist Krishen Khanna had a coveted job with a multinational bank, Grindlays (known as ANZ today), in the north Indian city of Kanpur. When his British managers heard that he wanted to quit to paint full-time, one of them asked: “Has Khanna lost his mind?” The 86-year-old artist is reminiscing in the living room of his elegant brick house in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi.He roars with laughter; loud laughter is such a signature of Khanna’s that one begins to wonder if it is his way of exhaling. Eventually, Khanna’s clerks gave him a grand send-off. Outside the bank as he left, Indian artist friends including MF Husain, who died last year, were impatiently waiting to welcome him into their ranks: they yanked away his tie.  [more...]

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CAPE TIMES: By Yazeed Kamaldien. Works by Irma Stern featuring a Zulu woman and another of a woman dressed in a sari are expected to fetch millions at an auction in London in March London auction house Bohams this weekend wrapped up its catalogue of local artwork for the annual auction. Giles Peppiatt, director for South African art at Bonhams, said in Cape Town that Stern’s work continued to remain in high demand on the international art scene. Last March, her painting “Arab Priest” fetched about R34 million, while previously her “Bahora Girl” was sold for about R25.5m. Peppiatt said Bonham’s Stern paintings for March auction were estimated to fetch between R6M and R15m apiece.  [more...]

AFRICAN COLOURS: By Geoffrey Jacques. It is tempting to talk about Skoto Gallery as a secret treasure of the New York art scene; but doing so brings up a lot of contradictory data. For instance, how does a “secret” survive two decades in a historically tough scene made even tougher by the cultural and economic head winds that have buffeted art, the New York art world, and the world in general in the last few years?  [more...]

ARTS AND HEALING: "I believe color creates energy, and I believe energy creates inspiration, and then I think inspiration creates the change. If you can create color, which murals do, then you're making a massive impact." -Ricky Lee Gordon. Ricky Lee Gordon is a South African muralist and community artist who goes by the name of Freddy Sam. He is the founder of Write on Africa, a community art and inspiration project that creates murals and workshops in poor communities to uplift and inspire social change.He also founded and directs A Word of Art, which includes an art space, art projects, and an international art residency program dedicated to celebrating new art and emerging young artists.   [more...]

BEELD: By Thys Odendaal. As jy in musiek belangstel – énige soort musiek – moet jy die program van die Absa Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees van 31 Maart tot 7 April in Oudtshoorn behoorlik bestudeer; behoorlik fynkam.Meer nog, wat ook verstaan mag word onder “klassieke musiek”, wat onder Michael Dingaan as lid van die “kunstekabinet” (grote Griet!) en Kanna- paneel sy beslag kry.  [more...]

ART SMART: Published by Phaidon and conceived and edited by Phaidon Editors, The Art Museum is an imaginary museum housing the finest art collection ever assembled. Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space its rooms display around 3,000 paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art.This is the only museum to house Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt’s finest self portraits, Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Picasso’s Guernica as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai’s woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, paintings from the caves at Lascaux and works by Cy Twombly and Brice Marden.  [more...]

Krisp: an exhibition by emerging artists opens at Art B Gallery, Bellville Library Centre, Carel van Aswegen Street, Bellville on Wednesday 25 January 2012 at 19.00.
This exhibition, sponsored by the City of Cape Town, showcases young graduates and emerging artists from well known art training institutions including Stellenbosch University, Michaelis School of Fine Art and Rhodes University. Participating artists include: Tarryn de Kock, Jarett Erasmus, Nina Liebenberg, Nonkululeko Mabaso, Alessandro Pappada, Tatum Paulsen and Lee-Ann van der Schyff.
The exhibition runs until 29 February 2012. For more information please contact Nikita Campbell on 021 918 2301 or email Nikita.Campbell@capetown.gov.za
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Nominations for the kykNET Fiestas – a glamorous awards ceremony where the most talented up-and-coming and established Afrikaans artists are honoured – were announced.
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From 15 March to 25 March 2012, the factory building at 281 Commissioner Street will house The Trinity Session’s ‘REVIEW’ exhibition. From Johannesburg to Dakar, Martinique to Mali, Mozambique and Sandton Central; The Trinity Session’s two members, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, have extended an investigation into social and electronic networks and varied urban terrains. For South African art lovers, this is a rare opportunity to see The Trinity Session’s groundbreaking work, developed over 10 years and displayed on local ground. The pair spend a great deal of their time abroad, and local fans can finally catch them up close and personal.   [more...]

Applications are invited for a three-month arts administration internship at
the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT).

The internship will offer the opportunity to gain hands-on practical
experience working closely with the ACT team on various aspects of project
management. The training will build upon the intern’s theoretical knowledge
in an applied setting and contrast theory to practice.
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UJ Arts and Culture announces the highlights of its programme for the first semester of 2012.

“UJ Arts & Culture is a leading performing arts producer, training facility and professional receiving house which offers a diverse range of programmes, training and community outreach programmes on all four UJ campuses,” says Ashraf Johaardien, the Head of Arts and Culture which is located within the division of Institutional Advancement at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).
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HYPERALLERGIC: By by Liza Eliano. Students at Yale University are enrolling by the hundreds to get into an introductory Art History course this semester, but that’s not the big surprise. The real shocker is that professor Alexander Nemerov is turning many of them away.  [more...]

ART FAG CITY: By Paddy Johnson. A line of gallery goers huddled around Andrew Edlin this Saturday, eagerly asking questions about the 13 Soviet TASS war propaganda prints on display at the gallery. He’d simply stepped out of his office to say hello to a friend.  [more...]

ARTINFO FRANCE: By Kate Deimling. In a brazen theft that combined old-fashioned brutality with high-tech gadgetry, two armed men broke into the home of an elderly art-dealing vicar in northern Ireland on January 3. The pair beat their victim and left him bound and gagged while they perused his art collection for possibilities.  [more...]

THE TELEGRAPH: By Alastair Sooke. Hamish Fulton has spent a lifetime transforming walks into works of art. He takes Alastair Sooke for a hike, and tells him why it’s good to stop thinking.It is midmorning in late December when I arrive at Hollingbourne railway station in Kent. The sky has a milky blankness. Leafless trees on either side of the tracks look stricken. It is hardly the most auspicious setting to begin a work of art.  [more...]

BEELD: By Leighton Koopman. Kaapstad. – ’n Oorvloed vermaak, kuns en feestelikheid wag op besoekers aan vanjaar se Absa Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees op Oudtshoorn. Die organiseerders bied ook ’n uitgebreide program van straatkuns, straatteater en straatmusiek aan. Die bekendstelling van die 18de KKNK-program is Woensdagaand hier deur verskeie voorste Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars en bekendes bygewoon.   [more...]

M&G: By Jeremy Kuper. The South African Heritage Resources Agency has agreed to grant a temporary permit, for 20 years, to allow Irma Stern's Arab Priest to be exported to the ­Orientalist Museum in Doha, Qatar. The painting was sold for about R34-million last March in London, but the new owner was refused a ­permanent licence to export it from South Africa. "An agreement was reached that the Qatar museum would apply for a temporary export permit, which is currently being processed," said Regina Isaacs, the agency's heritage objects manager. The work, which Stern painted during her time in Zanzibar, "serves as a really valuable document for South Africans of mutual respect between diverse cultures and religions", said Isaacs.   [more...]

ART SMART: Dee Donaldson. My students and I shared a studio at ArtSPACEdurban with Martin for many years. When Martin first moved to ArtSPACE (and before I had met him face to face) … I arrived one morning to find a row of pristine white tables in the studio.   [more...]

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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Associated Press: ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Is Kodak's moment past? The glory days when Eastman Kodak Co. ruled the world of film photography lasted for over a century.   [more...]

THE L MAGAZINE: By Paddy Johnson “Wow, they’re serious about the white cube here,” a friend whispered to me as we entered the Swiss Institute. He wasn’t kidding. The former Deitch Projects space is exactly square, totally white (shiny floors and all), and raised enough to make you feel like you’re walking on a stage.  [more...]

M&G: By Miles Keylock. Relax, the pandemonium filling the gallery is not the aftermath of an epic bash-it is the actual exhibition. The work is a result of an extended residency that saw the collective, comprising Zander Blom, Jan-Henri Booyens, Michael Macgarry and Jaco van Schalkwyk, take time out from their solo careers to revisit their wayward youth. It is a typically bad-assed affair that uses humour, fragments of photography, sculpture, installation and painting. The installation
questions the relevance of avant-garde art.  [more...]

The South African Society of Artists (SASA) is hosting their prestigious Annual Merit Exhibition where the works of artists who qualified through a judging process on a point system were invited to exhibit on this basis.


Place: Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens,

Sanlam Hall (entrance via Gate 2)

Opening: Friday 27 January 2011 at 18h00 by Internationally

known Impressionist and Teacher, Derric van Rensburg

Dates: 27 January - 5 February 2011

Opening Times: Daily from 09h30 to 18h00



For enquiries, please contact the Secretary, Liz Pearson, on (021) 671 8941 or email lizp@iafrica.com


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The ACT Development Programme, funded by Nedbank Arts Affinity, is open for
applications on an ongoing basis.
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Ever wanted to exhibit at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum? Now’s your chance. The NMM Art Museum is inviting all artists 18 years or older, living in the Nelson Mandela Bay to submit work for the 2012 Who’s who and what’s new?  [more...]

DIE BURGER: By Marilyn Martin. Alhoewel die Suid-Afrikaanse Vriende-organisasies nie met hul eweknieë in Amerika en Europa vergelyk kan word nie, dra hulle dekades lank al by tot die welsyn en vooruitgang van die visuele kunste en kunsmuseums.  [more...]

NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: The National Department of Tourism invites applications for bursaries from unemployed South African citizens for the 2012 academic year in the following fields of study:

Culture and Heritage
Developmental Studies
Tourism (emphasis on Economics/Econometrics or Economic Modelling)
Tourism Management
Computer Science
Information Management
Geographic Information System
Statistics  [more...]

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HUFFINGTON POST: Art has officially become the new sound investment over stocks and bonds, but we recently learned that art is now being used as leverage in a drug deal! It's all too much. One dealer (of the art variety) is claiming that dealers (of the drug variety) are running a black market for artwork in Auckland, New Zealand. Masterworks Gallery had a giant glass robot sculpture stolen on Christmas Eve, which arguably isn't something we'd ever cry over, but the act was reminiscent of a string of drug-related thefts from 2008. Fear of this alarming trend continuing were confirmed when a marble sculpture of a crushed gin and tonic can, valued at $2,000, was lifted from Sanderson Gallery last week. Kind of strange that the thieves would take such distinctive pieces since they would be difficult to resell. We can only assume they were high, or total nerds."Artworks have been traded [to a drug dealer] to pay off debt, was our understanding," Masterworks Gallery director Eloise Kitson told The New Zealand Herald of the 2008 thefts.  [more...]