By Michael Coulson

The original of the world's best-selling print is not the sort of picture that often comes up for sale, so it's not surprising that Bonhams has put Tretchikoff's Chinese Girl on the cover of the catalogue for its March 20 sale of SA art in London. But, at £300 000-£400 000, it's not the most expensive lot: it's topped by two Irma Sterns, Zanzibar Garden (estimate £600 000-£900 000, the back cover) and Congolese Beauty (£400 000-£600 000), a Pierneef view of Stellenbosch (£500 000-£700 000, the inside front cover) and Alexis Preller's Woman with a Lyre (£400 000-£600 000, the frontispiece).  [more...]

“Any speculation that the South African art market was on the decline were dashed last night when new records were set for both historically important and contemporary artists. A larger than usual Wolf Kibel painting, Houses with Red Roofs, with an estimated value at R300 000 – R400 000 sold for R 3.2 million. And two early works by Penny Siopis went way above their presale estimates, with one selling for ten times more than expected. Clearly there are some discerning buyers with deep pockets as the Maggie Laubser works attracted some spirited bidding with the ambitious estimates set by Strauss & Co being achieved or exceeded.  [more...]

By Michael Coulson:
If Monday night at the Vineyard is anything to go by, 1913 will be a great year for the SA art market. Excluding the handful of international items, Strauss % Co's two sessions comprising 218 lots of SA art grossed R38.7m, closer to the top than the bottom of the estimate range of R29.6m-R42.2m, with 178 lots selling, a more than satisfactory 81.65%.   [more...]

by Michael Coulson:
If last week's Strauss & Co auction gave rise to hopes that the SA art auction year would end on a high note, it was not to be. This week's closing sale by Stephan Welz & Co, in Joburg, started well, but tailed off badly, with only three of the top 12 estimate lots selling. No sale can do well when the top lots fall like this.
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By Michael Coulson : If last week's Strauss & Co auction gave rise to hopes that the SA art auction year would end on a high note, it was not to be. This week's closing sale by Stephan Welz & Co, in Joburg, started well, but tailed off badly, with only three of the top 12 estimate lots selling. No sale can do well when the top lots fall like this.  [more...]

PRESS RELEASE: Sibande’s critique of stereotypes leads to Standard Bank Young Artist Award
15 November 2012

The 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winner for Visual Arts, 30 year old Mary Sibande, is celebrated for her practice in which she employs the human form as a vehicle through painting and sculpture, to explore the construction of identity in a postcolonial South African context. Johannesburg-based artist, Sibande attempts to critique stereotypical depictions of (particularly black) women in our society.

“Growing up, my grandmother used to say I was very talented and creative. I guess that sparked confidence in me,” said Sibande about why she decided to pursue a creative career. “When I had to choose between Fine Art and Fashion, I chose Fine Art because it is more open, and it explores more creativity.”   [more...]

By Michael Coulson: When most art auctions struggle to reach the low estimate, it's a great achievement to go way beyond that and even beat the top estimate, but that's what Strauss & Co did in Johannesburg on Monday, even if only just and it took the buyer's premium and Vat to do it, as hammer prices fell just short. Still, that's how auctions are recorded. And this was in spite of the failure of three top lots to sell: the cover lot, a Ruth Everard-Steenkamp still life (estimate R800 000-R1.2m), Irma Stern's Four Figures (est R1.5m-R2m) and an Alexis Preller abstract (est R600 000-R800 000).  [more...]

Has the Irma bubble burst at last?

by Michael Coulson : Has the bubble in Irma Stern, that has largely driven the SA art market in recent years, finally burst? Results of recent auctions have suggested this, and it's confirmed by the catalogues for this month's last two auctions of the year, both in Joburg, one by each of the major local auction rooms. At Stephan Welz & Co on November 20, as in its August Joburg sale, there isn't a single Stern; the previous week, at Strauss & Co, while there are three Sterns, they contribute marginally less than 10% of the gross low estimate.

There's also less concentration on the market's second most popular artist, Pierneef. The six Pierneefs at Stephan Welz & Co, estimated at R1.6m-R2.2m, represent just 10% of the low estimate. At Strauss & Co there are also six, estimated at just over R1m, and with this being a bigger sale that's only 4.3% of the gross, making a combined 14.3% for the two market leaders. At some sales earlier this year, the pair contributed well over half the total take.  [more...]

Has the Irma bubble burst at last?

by Michael Coulson :
Has the bubble in Irma Stern, that has largely driven the SA art market in recent years, finally burst? Results of recent auctions have suggested this, and it's confirmed by the catalogues for this month's last two auctions of the year, both in Joburg, one by each of the major local auction rooms. At Stephan Welz & Co on November 20, as in its August Joburg sale, there isn't a single Stern; the previous week, at Strauss & Co, while there are three Sterns, they contribute marginally less than 10% of the gross low estimate.  [more...]

Serious charges should be laid against DAC's Visual Arts Indaba Organizers 25-26 October, Johannesburg.

See DAC website here http://www.dac.gov.za/events/2012/Program%20for%20the%20Visual%20Arts%20conference.pdf  [more...]

By Michael Coulson : The failure -- not for the first time in recent sales -- of some of the fancied Irma Sterns was partially redeemed by some remarkable prices in unexpected places at Bonhams's sale of SA art in London last week. Notably, Vladimir Tretchikoff's Red Jacket, a portrait of the artist's muse and lover in wartime Java, Lenka, estimated at £50 000-£80 000, which auctioneer Giles Peppiatt tells me he thought could reach £100 000 on a good day, went for a staggering £337 000 (R4.7m).  [more...]

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By Michael Coulson :
While the success of an art auction is generally determined by the fortunes of the top lots, the failure of two of the four seven-digit Irma Sterns to sell didn't detract from the overall success of Strauss & Co's Cape auction this week, thanks to good -- even outstanding -- results elsewhere. Of a total gross of R37m-plus, by my count 223 lots of SA art contributed about R27.1m, slightly above the low estimate of R26.75m, of which the five Sterns that did sell constituted R11.25m, or about 41.5%. Of course, reported prices are hammer-plus: hammer prices alone didn't reach the low estimate.  [more...]

By Michael Coulson : With both fewer lots and, accordingly, lower total estimates than last year, Bonhams has moderated its expectations for its October sale of SA art. But it's still one of the most ambitious sales of the year, and again heavily reliant on the two stalwarts of the market, Irma Stern and Pierneef.  [more...]

04 October 2012: There were a few surprises at the Stephan Welz & Co. sale last night. None of the reasonably estimated Irma Stern paintings saw any serious bidding, nor did the pair of Tretchikoff works - perhaps not so surprising as I think that the public are beginning to understand how bad a painter he in fact was.  [more...]

Our recent Stephan Welz & Co.'s Decorative and Fine Art Auction in Cape Town recorded a couple of record sales. Herewith a few that I thought may be of interest for possible use, namely:  [more...]

By Michael Coulson: After an encouraging start in the minor sessions -- the gross in the afternoon actually exceeded the low estimate -- buyers sat on their hands in the main, evening, session of Stephan Welz &Co's sale in Cape Town this week. None of the top 15 estimates were sold, so although the sell-through rate was respectable, the total take was disappointing. A consolation, though, was record prices for local artist Peter Clarke, who is gaining recognition late in his career after a recent major retrospective of his work.  [more...]

By Michael Coulson : With a combined gross low estimate not far short of R50m from the art alone, to say nothing of the furniture, jewellery and other items, our leading auction houses are oitching their hopes high for Cape Town's last two auctions of the year. And, as has not always been the case recently, success will rely heavily on Irma Stern, whose works contribute just over R22m, or about 47% of the total.

Up first is Stephan Welz & Co, on October 2 and 3 at Alphen, where art features in no fewer than four of the six sessions. Three of these, however, are minor. On Tuesday morning, 106 lots carry a total low estimate of about R535 000, barely R5 000 each. On Tuesday afternoon, another 75 lots are put at about R860 000, or R11 500 each. Early Tuesday evening 11 lots estimated at R86 000 are being sold for the benefit of the Lights From Africa charity, and then comes the main session.  [more...]

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT: Mary Corrigall: No matter how heated the debate became during The Spear debacle earlier this year, Cape Town-based artist Brett Murray chose not to enter the fray.Murray resisted mounting pressure to come forward and explain the motivations behind his contentious portrait of President Jacob Zuma, which exposed the leader’s genitals.Even when Zuma took the case to court, to appeal for the artwork to be removed from the Goodman Gallery, various individuals suggested Murray’s work was racist in intent, and when his life was threatened, Murray maintained his silence.There were those in the art community who believed that if he had spoken publicly about the work and explained his intentions, the conflict which the artwork provoked may have been avoided.On Thursday evening, at the opening of the FNB Joburg Art Fair (JAF) at the Sandton Convention Centre, Murray broke his silence in quite a literal manner with a large scripto-visual artwork presenting the word “silence”.Read Source here
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NEW YORK TIMES: By PATRICIA COHEN: Bargain hunting online? How about an original Rembrandt for $900 (“you can clearly tell its age by the paper,” the seller of this etching attests), or a signed piece in ink by Matisse for $1,250. (The artist’s work is, the online seller notes, “radical and unprecedented in the history of Western art.”)
A Google image search reveals that multiple galleries are selling a black elephant sculpture online that the Calder Foundation says is not a work by Alexander Calder. The gallery owner David Crespo, who is involved in a case concerning fake Picasso drawings.Yes, Sotheby’s can command more than $100 million for a Picasso at auction. But shoppers on the Web can find an “original” painting by that master for a mere $450 — less than a pair of designer shoes. Read Source here  [more...]

HUFFINGTON POST: By Hallie Sekoff A feminist art exhibition is stirring up controversy at this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. The exhibition, Only Women Women Only (OWWO), displays works exclusively by women artists, and only women may attend the exhibition. The organizers of the exhibition have prepared themselves for indignant responses from men, but to their surprise the women-only event has mainly elicited anger from women, some of whom have boycotted the exhibition.As chief curator Sarah Wilson said in an interview with The Scotsman, it is women who have been most vocal about the show, “I’ve had a few women artists who refused to take part and thought it was a terrible idea. Most of the men have been happy to wait outside, but I’ve had quite a few women coming in and saying: ‘We’ve fought hard for equal rights and this is setting things back.'”Read Source here
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BEELD: Marguerite Gauthier-Lathuille (sonder jaartal) is ’n werk in olie op doek (61 x 50 cm.) van Édouard Manet. Dit is een van die skilderye wat tot 15 September te sien is in die Standard Bank-galery in Johannesburg.Johan Myburg: Sedert die uitstalling 20th Century Masters: The Human Figure in Julie in die Standard Bank-galery in Johannesburg begin het, het 6 000 besoekers dié galery reeds besoek.Die uitstalling is saamgestel deur kurator Sylvie Ramond, direkteur van die Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, en die sowat 50 werke sluit in dié van die vorige eeu se voorste kunstenaars soos Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Félix Vallotton, Victor Brauner en Wilfredo Lam – voorlopers en eksponente van vroeë modernisme – asook Impressioniste soos Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas en August Renoir.Read Source here  [more...]

BEELD: Carla Lewis-Balden: JOHANNESBURG. – Die Suid-Afrikaanse visuele kunstenaar William Kentridge (1955) se gesogtheid onder kuns­versame- laars is weer bevestig toe een van sy werke op ’n veiling R313600 gehaal het. Rhino, ’n houtskool-tekening van ’n renoster, is verlede week vir hierdie bedrag deur die ­veiling­huis Stephan Welz en Kie. opgeveil. Die kunswerk is in 1989 geskep en is een van talle werke van Kentridge met renoster as onderwerp. ’n Gedeelte van die bedrag is geskenk aan Rhino Force, ’n organisasie wat hom vir die stryd teen renoster­stropery beywer. “Die benarde toestand van die renosterbevolking kry weer ’n inspuiting van hoop en ­ondersteuning van Stephan Welz en Kie. Read Source here  [more...]

THE TIMES (RSA) Tymon Smith | SELF-MADE MEN: Anton Kannemeyer, artist and Bitterkomix creator, with his portrait of rapper Ninja from Die Antwoord If you Google Anton Kannemeyer, the third suggestion offered by the search engine is "Anton Kannemeyer racist". The founder of Bitterkomix, creator of the persona of Joe Dog and of the art series Papa in Afrika and the Alphabet of Democracy, has often produced work that makes people uncomfortable about race, politics and white identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Despite this, no one has hauled him in front of the Film and Publication Board and slapped an age restriction on any of his exhibitions.He's certainly not a racist, but when you challenge middle-class complacency and questions of race in a country as divided by the topics as ours, it's an easy tag to pin on him. In person, Kannemeyer is a gentle, earnest and quietly humorous presence, as far removed from his Joe Dog alter ego as Joe Dog is from the artist himself. Read Source here  [more...]

THE ART NEWSPAPER: Public chooses Meleko Mokgosi as their favourite artist for Mohn Award, voting online and at Hammer Museum. By Helen Stoilas. The Hammer Museum has announced that the Botswana-born, Los Angeles-based artist Meleko Mokgosi is the winner of its new Mohn Award, a $100,000 prize given over two years that rivals the Turner Prize in the UK. The award is funded by the local philanthropists and art collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn.Mokgosi was among five finalists selected by a panel of judges from the 60 artists taking part in the Hammer’s “Made in LA” biennial. He was chosen as the overall winner by the public through a registered voting system, both online and at the museum, that ensured secure and authentic results. Read Source here
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DIE BURGER: Stephanie Nieuwoudt. STELLENBOSCH. – Abri de Swardt, wat verlede jaar die rektorsprys vir uitnemende prestasie in die kunste en sosiale ­weten­skappe aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) verwerf het, het pas ook die Skye-stigting se studiebeurs ­losgeslaan. Die beurs dek al De Swardt se ­studie- en lewenskoste terwyl hy werk aan sy meestersgraad in die ­visuele ­kunste aan die Goldsmiths-universiteit in Londen. Sy studiejaar begin op 24 September. De Swardt het sy BA-graad in ­visuele kuns in 2010 met lof verwerf en het vanjaar sy honneursgraad in visuele ­studies voltooi, ook met lof. Sedert verlede jaar gee hy deeltyds klas in visuele studies aan die US, en is hy ook ’n gasdosent by die Akademie vir Ontwerp en Fotografie. Read Source here
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ARTLOGIC: The winner of the second FNB Art Prize is Zimbabwean artist, Kudzanai Chiurai.Born in 1981 in Zimbabwe, Kudzanai Chiurai is an internationally acclaimed young artist now living and working in South Africa. Boldly stenciled figures and anonymous text provide running commentary, leading viewers on a journey through his intricately painted turn-of-the century buildings, bustling streets and congested transit systems. For a man of few words, Kudzanai Chiurai is not afraid to speak his mind - which he does, loudly and brilliantly, through his art. His brutal honesty and fearless commentary on the status quo had him exiled from his homeland, Zimbabwe.Read Source here
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BEELD: Johan Myburg: Absence of Presence, Presence of Absence – Ansa ClaceyKunsvereniging Pretoria. Titels sê nie altyd alles oor kunswerke nie, maar dit is ’n bietjie soos slotte. Oor slotte, en veral die slot van ’n gedig, het Van Wyk Louw opgemerk: Slotte is dikwels meer sleutels as slotte.Titels is dikwels toegangspoorte tot kuns. Ansa Clacey roep met haar uitstallingstitel twee wêrelde op. Minstens twee. Dié van die hier en nou en dié van die nié hier nie en die nié nou nie. Dat die twee in spanning staan, voel enige mens tog daagliks aan. Read Source here
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HUFFINGTON POST: janet-langsam: This year's summer Olympics has raised sports to an art form. Gymnast Gabby Douglas might have been a ballerina for all her grace and flexibility. Swimmer Michael Phelps might have been a sculptor for all his power and focus. Glued as I was to the TV, watching what to me was performance art at its finest, I wondered why we don't have an Olympics of the Arts. That line of thought led me to bemoan once again the absence of the arts at the "real" Olympics. The Olympics after all elevates the value of competition. It celebrates diversity and ambition, and it engages everyone -- participants and audiences alike throughout the world. That kind of broad, worldwide visibility is just what we need in the arts.Read Source here
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HUFFINGTON POST: It's a time-honored joke: M.F.A. actually stands for Mother F%#king Attitude. I've had that outlook, and it's seen me through some rough and dispiriting times as an artist. But looking back on my early career, I've come to realize it's not an attitude that will sustain you, and even in the best of times, it can be detrimental to your artistic practice. I had a close brush with being expelled from Yale's MFA program when I painted Professor Mel Bochner being ravished by a female bull with a dildo strapped to her udder. Funny? Yes. But with time, I've come to regret having hurt his feelings. The goal most of us share is to feel good about our practice, connect with other arts professionals, and get our work out there for people to enjoy. So what is the right mindset to cultivate to enable your success and fulfillment as an artist? Here are four techniques that may help.Read Source here
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THE ART NEWSPAPER: After 40 years in the business, the respected Los Angeles dealer Margo Leavin is shutting up shop. The decline of the traditional gallery model has claimed another victim, with Los Angeles dealer Margo Leavin announcing that she will be closing her gallery at the end of September after more than 40 years in the art business. The internationally respected gallery, which opened in 1970, represented artists such as John Baldessari, William Leavitt, Claes Oldenburg and Lynda Benglis. Read Source here
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THE ART NEWSPAPER: A new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation Cinoa finds that fair-led and online business is taking over as the main source of revenueBRUSSELS. The traditional gallery model is in decline, according to a new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation Cinoa (Con­féd­ération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art), which found that fair-led and online business is taking over as the main source of revenue. Gallery visits are declining as the art market expands to new international centres served better by art fairs or electronic media.Read Source here
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BEELD: Janice Keogh: Die kunstenaar Adriaan Boshoff se dogter, Louise, word beskuldig van die diefstal van sy werk ter waarde van tot R2,45 miljoen. Louise (53) het die Adlou Expressionistic Art-galery in Hartbeespoort in die vroeë 2000’s geopen en bestuur totdat dit vroeër vanjaar gelikwideer is. Drie kunseienaars het diefstalsake teen Louise aanhangig gemaak nadat hul Adriaan Boshoff-skilderye, wat aan haar gegee is om in haar galery te hang, verdwyn het. Read Source here  [more...]

MAHALA: by Tobela Pemba: In light of Brett Murray’s Spear painting controversy and the rise of the Secrecy Bill, one could argue that our constitutionally enshrined right to free speech is under attack. Against this backdrop, the old Laugh It Off judgment might just be the constitutional precedent, the thin black line that protects our right to say what we like. Let’s recap: early 2001, SABMiller sued Justin Nurse, for printing and selling t-shirts that lampooned SABMiller’s Black Label packaging design. Nurse had replaced. Read Source here   [more...]

ARTSMART: The Durban Art Gallery is featuring a schools curriculum-based exhibition titled Enqolobaneni – “In the Silo”. In partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal provincial Department of Education, the Durban Art Gallery showcases works that speak directly to the Visual Art Schools Curriculum content. This semi-permanent exhibition is aimed at giving students an opportunity to view and reflect on the artworks whilst preparing for final examinations. Members of the public also get access to some of the Gallery’s prestigious collection, whilst pondering on some of the major events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped contemporary South African art history and beyond. Featured artists include Gerald Bhengu, Dumile Feni, Maggie Laubser, J.H. Pierneef, Irma Stern, Gerald Sekoto, Robert Hodgins, Themba Shibase, Dineo Bopape and Brett Murray. Read Source here
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MAIL & GUARDIAN: MPHO MOSHE MATHEOLANE: How do public institutions make use of art, and what is the purpose of having a collection, asks Mpho Moshe Matheolane.I have asked myself these questions on a number of occasions, and I find that the answers are in short supply. Perhaps it all comes down to the institutions themselves, although one cannot say that this is a phenomena that is unique to South Africa, and there are countless reports of institutions in the more developed countries suffering just as much from dried up funding or the total lack thereof. Public institutions (and here I include, somewhat reluctantly, corporates) play an important role in sustaining the works of artists, by guaranteeing the value of their works through budgeted acquisitions and conservation. Museums are the most obvious form of “public institution” but it is possible that they also take the form of bodies such as the Constitutional Court. Read Source here
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GUARDIAN (UK): The Post Office's gold-painted postboxes – celebrating Team GB's success – have gone down so well that now we all want one in our town. Has London 2012 set a new gold standard?The most unlikely Olympic artwork of the summer has to be the postbox that was illegally painted gold in Lymington, where Ben Ainslie lives. Read Source here
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HUFFINGTON POST: First came the Red Hot Chili Peppers, then came Madonna, and now Bjork has spoken out in support of Russian punk activists Pussy Riot on her website. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, are currently awaiting their verdict after screaming "Virgin Mary, Mother of God, become a feminist!" and anti-Putin "prayers" at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, decked in ski masks and mini skirts. They are facing up to three years in prison for "hooliganism." Read Source here   [more...]

CAPE TIMES: Adele Baleta. The tourism lifeblood to the Karoo village of Nieu Bathesda in the Eastern Cape has taken a knock after the plug was pulled on the Athol Fugard Festival and tourists cancelled trips to the famous Owl House saying brightly coloured restorations has turned it into a garish amusement park.  [more...]

Gehore reageer op ons ‘kulturele vingerafdrukke’ ’n Klein animasieateljee in Bergvliet, Kaapstad, loop die internasionale toneel storm met sy prent Adventures in Zambezia. ’n Tweede prent sal vroeg volgende jaar voltooi wees, en ’n derde is in die ontwikkelingsfase. Laetitia Poplehet met Stuart Forrest, uitvoerende vervaardiger van die Triggerfish-ateljee, gesels. Triggerfish is duidelik aan die voorpunt van animasie in Suid-Afrika, met oorsese verspreiding nou deur Sony na veertig oorsese lande. Vollengte animasie is nog ’n nuutjie in Suid-Afrika – hoe het Triggerfish so vinnig naam gemaak? Read Source here
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FORBES: If you pay attention either to China or the art market, you’ve probably heard the story: China last year became – according to art industry experts – the world’s largest market for art and antiques, surpassing the USA.Well, here’s a shocker: it isn’t. Not even close.Of course, you probably suspected as much: but the reasons are only now becoming clear. Exclusive interviews over the past several weeks with Chinese art dealers, auction house officials and others reveal a level of corruption significant even by Chinese standards, and more, the potential global dangers of an art market now at unprecedented heights – and growing.Read Source here
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THE ART NEWSPAPER: Union Jack stadium floor forms "mosh pit" while Heatherwick's cauldron deconstructs. By Javier Pes. The 2012 London Olympic Games ended on Sunday night (12 August) with a spectacular closing ceremony that featured fireworks, pop stars, military bands, supermodels and a floor designed by the artist Damien Hirst that covered the athletics field. The floor formed a giant Union Jack in patriotic, spin-painting-style colours, with the flag's bars and diagonals (in fact, ramps for the performers and props) decorated as newsprint.Read Source here
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NEW YORK TIMES: Posted by Emma Allen.I recently attended a wedding where, over lobster rolls, talk turned to reality TV. A young assistant from a prominent gallery, relegated to the kids’ table with me, revealed that she had been approached last August by a casting producer from Magical Elves, Inc., about being on Bravo’s latest reality program, “Gallery Girls.” By the time the cake was cut, she had promised to forward me the e-mail exchange. “We are seeking a gifted and vivacious trailblazer with a tell-it-like-it-is attitude,” the producer had written. “This gallery girl will inspire others with her wit and charm, but she should also be sly-as-a-fox when it comes to the politics of New York City’s art gallery world.” My table mate had opted out.“Gallery Girls” is a new Bravo reality television series that is bad in all of the ways that reality television is usually bad. The first episode presents the petty brawling of young women in high heels as gladiatorial blood sport. It promotes a fantastically regressive vision of the social and sexual dealings of twenty-somethings. There is practically no mention of art. Read Source here
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SA ART TIMES:by Michael Coulson. With not a single Irma Stern, and no major Pierneef, it was up to lesser names to make the running at Stephan Welz & Co's art auction in Joburg this week. And while neither Keith Alexander sold, in contrast to the interest he has attracted at some recent sales, the two landscapes by the rarely seen Ruth Everard-Haden filled the bill. Both estimated at R400 000-R600 000, one went for R840 000 (the only major lot to beat the upper estimate) and the other for R538 000 (as always, reported prices are "hammer plus", estimates just the hammer price).  [more...]

SUPPLIED: Stephan Welz & Co, Johannesburg, saw a diverse audience compete for exceptional pieces at their recent auction, where sound results were realized overall and numerous items were pursued to prices well above their pre-sale estimates.
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DIE BURGER: Die Overbergse kunstenaar Joshua Miles se solotentoonstelling het pas in die The Mission’s House Gallery in Onrusrivier geopen. Miles fokus in sy jongste werke op die see, wat hy as een van sy visuele passies bestempel danksy die spel van lig op water. Hy vind ook inspirasie vir sy landskappe in die natuurskoon van die Overberg en die Klein-Karoo. Hy is gebore en het grootgeword in die Wes-Kaap en het visuele kuns aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad gestudeer. Miles en Niel Jonker is van die twaalf kunstenaars wat op 21 en 23 September vanjaar vir die Baardskeerdersbos-kunsroete hul ateljee vir die publiek oopmaak. Die kunswerke wat op die roete te sien is, is hoofsaaklik natuurtonele. Navrae: 00283162269 Read Source
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INCORRIGIBLE CORRIGAL: Coincidentally, the week after I decided to post my feature "The Silent War" (published in The Sunday Independent on August 28, 2010) on this blog to coincide with the Michaelis exhibition, it was nominated for a Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Award (previously known as The Mondi Award) for feature writing. There is no connection; it is unlikely the judges of this award perused Incorrigible Corrigall before making their final selection. Obviously, it is always good news to be nominated for an award but what makes this nomination so significant is that usually only hard news stories are acknowledged by this awarding body and in this category. Like most journalism awards in this country there is no category for arts writing. Read Source
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MAIL & GUARDIAN: NECHAMA BRODIE : Rockey Street was a beachhead of the new South Africa in the late Eighties and the Nineties, but it has seen a lot of changes since those heady days. I was eight or nine when my parents opened their shop at 20 Rockey Street in what we called Yeoville, but is apparently, technically, Bellevue. It was 1984 or 1985. The shop had black-and-white tiles at the front and an old door with a wooden frame and glass panes. In the back was a big stockroom where my mom would sit and do accounts, or something like that, and my brother and I could hide and fight and draw pictures and plot how to kill each other. Once I stapled my thumb. Read Source
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THE ART NEWSPAPER: Julia Michalska: "Free Pussy Riot" placards : As three of the members of the punk band Pussy Riot, who have been charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, gave their closing statements in court today (8 August), and international pop stars including Madonna call for their release, further reports of art-world solidarity have come to light. During the opening ceremony of this year's edition of the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art on 10 July, members of the audience held up placards spelling out “free Pussy Riot” when Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's minister of culture, gave his opening speech. “Read Source  [more...]

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: MICHAEL KESTERTON: “A human hair that may have belonged to Vincent van Gogh has been removed from a painting in an attempt to prove or disprove whether he painted the work of art,” The Daily Telegraph reports. “In a bid to settle one of the mysteries of the art world, the three-inch-long[(8-centimetre] red hair was lifted from Still Life with Peonies and DNA samples taken from it will be compared with those from van Gogh’s living relatives. If confirmed as a van Gogh, the painting could fetch … £39-million [$61-million].” Read Source
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TELEGRAPH (UK) Banksy's Pooh Bear could fetch £50,000 at auction.Banksy's spray paint interpretation of EH Shepard's Winnie The Pooh illustrations could fetch up to half a million pounds at an auction in America. He may not be the obvious subject for the prize piece at an urban art auciton in California, but auctioneers have estimated that Banksy's black and white stencil of AA Milne's cuddly creation could fetch a sum of £51,000. The 2003 stencil will go on sale at Bonham's urban art sale in Los Angeles on 29 October, and is estimated to fetch between £32,000 and £51,000 ($50,000 and $80,000). Read Source
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TELEGRAPH (UK) By Lara Prendergast: For those seeking an alternative to London's major public art galleries, Lara Prendergast rounds up the best of the city's lesser-known independent galleries. London’s high-profile public galleries are justly lauded the world over, but the capital’s artistic offerings stretch beyond the big-name attractions and include plenty of exceptional independent galleries too. If you’re in search of an alternative to the cultural institutions that dominate the itineraries of first-time visitors to London our guide to ten of London’s best independent galleries should help. Read Source
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NEW YORK TIMES: Marcus Yam: The scaffolding for Tatzu Nishi’s “Discovering Columbus” is rising toward the statue. Visitors will be able to climb stairs (or ride an elevator) to a living room. Imagine you’re a New York City building official, and the mayor’s office has decided to let an artist build a living room six stories up in the air and wrap it around a historic statue of Christopher Columbus in the middle of one of Manhattan’s busiest intersections. A rendering of Tatzu Nishi’s concept for “Discovering Columbus” at Columbus Circle in Manhattan.Oh, and the plan is to have 100,000 people climb up stairs to view it. Read Source
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At Jackson Pollock’s studio in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, Raul Dorticos takes a photo of the dribbles and drops on the floor where Pollock laid his canvases to paint.Credit: Gordon M. Grant for The New York Times Read Source
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MAHALA: Part I “Ah.. So, finally on the road,” I say into my video-camera as I wind my station-wagon through Eastern Cape game farms and corrugated gravel roads. “A day late, due to unforeseen delays… So here we are… Ah… Wednesday morning, heading to Somerset East, to Wayne Belize, family friend and mystic. Then… hoping to head out to Nieu Bethesda. Along the way, I’m going to stop at some rock art… In Nieu Bethesda I’m hoping to meet some locals . Read Source
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DIE BURGER: Melvyn Minnaar: Zanele Muholi – ‘Mo(u)rning’Michael Stevenson-galery, Woodstock.Om hierdie werk te benader asof dit bloot “kuns” in ’n galery is, is haas onmoontlik terwyl die werklikheid in koerantopskrifte buite nogeens van ’n gruwelmoord op ’n lesbiër vertel. Die koel situasie van die wit “kunsruimte” is kwalik skans vir die onmenslike – ja, barbaarse – geweld waarvan hier gerapporteer word.Tog het dié werk resonansie wat wyer reik as ’n formidabele protes wat in die persoonlike politiek geanker is. Deur dié “kulturele” omgewing te betree, slyp Muholi haar ongenaakbare aktivisme tot forse effek. Read Source here
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TIME.COM With thundering eloquence, TIME's legendary critic skewered pretensions and vulgarity, reminding anyone who cared for art that it must be anchored in tradition, craft and intelligence
At some early point in his long career, more than three decades of it spent at TIME, Robert Hughes became the most famous art critic in the English-speaking world. This happened because he was also the best — the most eloquent, the most sharp-eyed and incisive, the most truculent and certainly the most robust. He was 74 when he died on Aug. 6, in New York City. As Auden put it after the death of Yeats: “Earth, receive an honoured guest.” Read Source
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Guardian (UK) Robert Hughes, who has died aged 74, was simply the greatest art critic of our time and it will be a long while before we see his like again. He made criticism look like literature. He also made it look morally worthwhile. He lent a nobility to what can often seem a petty way to spend your life. Hughes could be savage, but he was never petty. There was purpose to his lightning bolts of condemnation. That larger sense of purpose can best be seen in his two classic books on art, The Shock of the New and Nothing If Not Critical. Read Source here
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By Richard Chin: St. Paul Pioneer Press. If lacemaking ever duplicates knitting's hip resurgence, it won't be through street art installations like yarn bombing. Making lace by hand is so labor-intensive - you're doing well if you can crank out a square inch per hour for some types - that no one in their right mind would think of leaving a lace antimacassar on a park bench. But the lacemaking faithful have gathered this week in St. Paul to do their best to try to keep their ancient and intricate art alive. About 300 lacemakers and top lacemaking instructors from the United States and Europe are here for the annual convention of the International Old Lacemakers. Read Source
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By Florence Waters: Britain's oldest tapestry studio has survived the dark days of the medium. Now, a landmark exhibition suggests that weaving is on the up. Remarkably little has changed at Britain's oldest surviving tapestry studio in the century since it was founded. Two world wars, more than 800 tapestries, and a digital revolution later, the thread is still unravelling in Edinburgh's Dovecot Studios. Today, five weavers inhabit an almost identical space to that occupied by the six young men who manned the workshop in 1912. They share the same materials, the same habitual routine, the same respect for their materials and the smae ability to resist a primal urge to snuggle up against the soft pointillist blur of yarns that line the walls. Read Source
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DIE BURGER: Melvyn Minnaar: Onder die voete van die derduisende besoekers wat in hierdie 100 dae die gruispaadjies van die Friedrichsplatz tussen die uitstalruimtes van dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Duitsland plat loop, skuil ’n sleutelwerk in die tradisie wat so effe onseker as ‘konsepkuns’ bekend staan. Read Source here  [more...]

HUFFINGTON POST: It is 2012, but in the art world it is often still 1966. Some of the "traditions" underlying the business side of the gallery and museum world date back decades. Don't let 'em fool you that they are hip. The art world is a bunch of stubborn ninnies who learn to do things one way and insist that things never be done a different way. Everyone has great career advice for you that is current for 1979, or 1985 or 1994, whatever year they broke into the art world -- that is the master plan they insist everyone must follow; they assert you will not succeed unless you, too, do things like they did back then. Understand two things: The art world doesn't replace its dinosaurs, it gives them retrospectives, and two, the first caveman who left the cave was the first performance artist and nobody has topped him since. Here are 12 things about the art world that need to disappear for good. Read Source here  [more...]

SOWETAN LIVE: PERTUNIA RATSATSI: A MAN shot and paralysed during a robbery on his way home from work 10 years ago now makes a living out of wire art.George Mongwayi, 35, from Pretoria, and his business partner Siphiwe Khumalo, 30, are turning wire into beautiful and stylish luxury cars, buses, home decorations and many other interesting art works.The creative pair from Block KK in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, use tennis balls and the bottom part of cool drink tins to make car and mag wheels. Mongwayi said he started his business in 2003 when he realised he could not find employment after the shooting in 2002 that left him paralysed from the waist down.Read Source here
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BIZCOMMUNITY (SA)In what is described as the first international games and media art festival in Johannesburg, the Goethe Institute will partner with A MAZE to bring Interact 2012 to downtown Jozi from 28 August to 2 September 2012. Since its inception in 2008, A MAZE has been successfully celebrating the convergence of game and art across Europe, from its HQ in Berlin.The founder of A MAZE and festival director, Thorsten S Wiedemann says, "Johannesburg has this electrified inspiring energy in the air I experienced 15 years ago when I first came to Berlin. Read Source here  [more...]

On Sunday, British officials will complete the handover of hundreds of archaeological artefacts to the National Museum of Afghanistan. Many were stolen during the civil war and have been recovered with the help of the British Museum and the UK Ministry of Defence, writes the BBC's Aleem Maqbool.Read Source here  [more...]

DIE BURGER: Melvyn Minnaar: SeeingEye: By Brundyn + Gonsalves, Loopstraat, KaapstadToe die begrip fotorealisme destyds die modieuse opvolgstyl vir popkuns en die heftige hale van sogenaamde ­Ameri­kaanse abstrakte ekspressionisme word, het talle mense nie dadelik die onderduimse ­ironie ingesien nie. Die verbluffende vernuf van ’n skildery wat net soos ’n foto voorkom, was genoeg vertoon om aan sy oppervlakkige ­ver­leiding gemeet te word.Read Source here  [more...]

INDEPENDENT (UK) The master of hype arrives in London for a blockbuster new show. Matilda Battersby meets him Mr Brainwash first came to the world’s attention as the star of Banksy’s Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. The film was so extraordinary it was met with a storm of hoax accusations. It followed the then Thierry Guetta, a perfectly ordinary (well, ordinary-ish) French-born owner of a vintage clothes shop in Los Angeles, who had an obsessive hobby for filming things. With a camcorder permanently attached to his face and no need for sleep, Guetta began turning his lens on other nocturnal creatures: street artists.Read Source here  [more...]

MAHALA: By Brandon Edmonds. It’s taken more than two years and over 6000 cycled kilometers, countless falls, phone calls, head colds and punctures – not to mention the kindness of strangers – but the 3-volume record of Nic Grobler and Stan Engelbrecht’s remarkable journey Bicycle Portraits: Everyday South Africans and their bicycles is finally done. The project chronicles the lives of South Africans who use bicycles as a day-to-day means of transport. The book came out in March and was immediately essential.Read Source here  [more...]

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INDEPENDENT ONLINE: By Jenna Etheridge. Cape Town - City Press editor Ferial Haffajee would not remove Brett Murray's controversial painting “The Spear” from her newspaper's website if given the chance now, she said on Wednesday. “I would not take down that image today, knowing what I do now,” she said at the TB Davie memorial lecture at the University of Cape Town.“That power of love, of standing down, of reconciling to a great good has withered in my eyes and it's been made to whither by a failed and slaving leech, by men and women who are shadows of the people who led us into this democratic era.”Read Source here  [more...]

THE ART NEWSPAPER:By Charlotte Burns. The wealth of the super-rich is keeping the miracle going but mostly for the best works.The top end of the art market appears to keep climbing, despite fresh crises in the currency and banking markets and ongoing turmoil in the Eurozone. The reportedly strong sales at Art Basel (13-17 June) indicate a buoyancy bearing little relationship to the problems in the global economy and the fact that major financial institutions are still struggling with risk management—J.P. Morgan was one of several banks to be downgraded by the credit agencies in June after losing $2bn in trades of illiquid credit derivatives. Meanwhile, according to a report in the New York Times, the growth of the art market is outstripping GDP (gross domestic product).Read Source here  [more...]

BOSTON: Remember Tank Man? The unknown Chinese protester who stalled a line of armored vehicles during the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square? What he was to those tanks, the artist-provocateur Ai Weiwei is to the entire Chinese government: a solitary figure who simply will not back down.Alison Klayman’s documentary is one of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year almost completely on the strength of Ai’s rumpled charisma and the confusion it creates in the bureaucratic mindset of the Chinese Communist Party. A big, burly bear of a man, with a caustic sense of humor behind deadpan eyes, he’s a culture jammer who began as an artist with political tendencies but has become an activist who happens to make art. Read Source here
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Many former students from the Fine Arts departments at UCT and Wits University will remember Evelyn Cohen, a talented lecturer who dedicated her life to teaching art history from the 1960s until the early 1990s. A passionate art educator, she also took a deep interest, as a trained secondary teacher herself, in the broader problems of education at school level in South Africa. Born to Austrian-Jewish refugee parents in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Cohen was one of the significant postgraduates, along with her colleagues Elizabeth Rankin and Rory Doepel, to emerge from Wits under the tutelage of Professor Heather Martienssen in the 1960s. Martienssen, the first woman to become a full professor at Wits and a doctoral graduate of London’s Courtauld Institute of Art, set rigorous academic standards and her example helped establish the teaching of art history on a firm footing in South Africa.   [more...]

BEELD: Johan Myburg:Net buite Howick in KwaZulu-Natal, op die plek waar Nelson Mandela op 5 Augustus 1962 gearresteer is, het ’n beeldhouwerk van Marco Cianfanelli eindelik staanplek gekry.Read Source here
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DIE BURGER: Laetitia Pople: KAAPSTAD. – Meer as 30 van Suid-Afrika se bekendste visuele kunstenaars, onder wie William Kentridge en David Goldblatt, neem in September deel aan die Karoodorp Prins Albert se eerste fees van visuele kunste.Read Source here  [more...]

Gore Vidal: 'Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn'. Photograph: AP"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."Read Source here  [more...]

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GUARDIAN (UK) You can take a virtual walk down almost any street in the developed world – and it's resulting in some fascinating new art
In the pre-computer world of the 1960s, various board games promised "all the thrills and spills" of Formula 1 or football "in the privacy of your own home". There was even a brewer – "Beer at home means Davenports" – offering draught beer without having to go to the pub. This desire for voluntary house arrest has since been so thoroughly sated by the internet that we now expect to be able to get, do and buy almost everything without having to leave our lairs. But who'd have thought that you could be a stay-at-home street photographer?
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TELEGRAPH (UK) The re-opened William Morris Gallery in Lloyd Park is full of charm and impressive history, capturing the life of the visionary polymath, writes Alastair Sooke.
The Walthamstow Tapestry by Grayson Perry at the re-opened William Morris Gallery. Photo: Geoff Pugh By Alastair Sooke: When William Morris died aged 62 in 1896, his doctor quickly divined the cause of death: “The disease is simply being William Morris, and having done more work than most 10 men.” The doctor was hardly joking. During the course of his life, Morris distinguished himself as a poet, painter, designer, craftsman and social reformer. Making sense of the personality, achievements and legacy of such a visionary polymath is a complicated task. Yet that is what the new-look William Morris Gallery, which reopens this week following a year-long £5 million refurbishment, manages to do.
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Nick Franglen spent months creating a secret art project in the Olympic zone. The public cannot visit but here's a private view
Getting to see Legacy, the new installation by musician and artist Nick Franglen, is an unusually cloak-and-dagger business. Potential appointments come and go until, on the Monday afternoon before the Olympics, Franglen sends me a last-minute text. Can I come to a station in London's Docklands for 11 o'clock at night? I'm advised to wear boots and dark clothing that I don't mind being ripped.
The reason for all this subterfuge is the venue: a derelict, partially demolished factory that serves as a document to Docklands' industrial past. It is dangerous and guarded at the best of times, let alone during the Olympic build-up.
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The UK artist's 'river' of paint along the road-cycling track in Surrey pays tribute to the beauty of the Olympics' British setting
If you enjoyed the Olympic cycling road races at the weekend and cheered Britain's first silver medal for Lizzie Armitstead, you may have noticed a curious graffiti painted on one stretch of the road. It is, in fact, a permanent work of art that will serve as a landscape legacy of one the first sports in this year's Olympics. It is called Box Hill Road River and was created by the British artist Richard Long.
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BEELD: Twaalf Suid-Afrikaanse en Franse fotograwe gaan die volgende drie maande Suid-Afrika deurkruis in ’n fotoprojek waarvan die dokumentasie later vanjaar in Suid-Afrika en volgende jaar in Frankryk ten toon gestel word. Read more
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GUARDIAN (UK): To kick off a two-week series of exclusive artists' responses to the Olympics, David Hockney gives his reaction to Danny Boyle's opener – with a committed smoker's focus on Brunel's unlit cigar. Read more
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TELEGRAPH: Sprinter, sailor, torchbearer, chef... those who have paved the way to the London Games are the subject of an inspiring new show Aiming High at the National Portrait Gallery, says Jim White.Read more  [more...]

DELAWARE: This undated photo supplied by H+K Strategies shows artwork in an Omni Dallas Hotel guest room. Omni is one of a number of hotels that features unusual art in the rooms and allows guests the option of purchasing the work to take home. For several years, hotels have invited local artists in to decorate hallways, lobbies and other public spaces.Read more
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Q. Could you tell us more about your subject and medium that you work with?
A. My work talks about the general issues that are affecting women in our country but my biggest focus is in the location I live in ( Kwa-Thema). It also celebrates their power, how the challenge life and overcome obstacles . The medium I use in most cases is linocut, it is bold and power full. Its a statement from a distance. It draws lot of attention and it also work as an advertising medium so it makes it easy for me to put the massage across.   [more...]

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GUARDIAN (UK) Apart from household names, most artists need a day job to make ends meet. But should artists have to work or should they be supported by the state?Five artists talk about their day jobs. Read more  [more...]

BEELD: Die fotograaf Pieter Hugo vertoon vanjaar op die Eerste Nasionale Bank Joburg Art Fair (ENB JAF) ’n versameling foto’s wat hy in opdrag van Pirelli geneem het. Pirelli, wat bekend is om sy kalenders van skraps geklede modelle, het Hugo opdrag gegee om ’n stel foto’s te neem van “natuurlike skoonheid”. Volgens die ENB JAF-webwerf wyk Hugo in sy benadering vir dié opdrag af van die konvensionele naakstudie wat die Pirelli-kalender sedert 1964 geromantiseer het.Read more
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MAIL & GUARDIAN: Anthea Buys:Thing of beauty: Athlone Power Station. It is not surprising that so many Capetonians were distraught about the collapse of the Athlone Power Station's two cooling towers in 2010.Unless you are looking at Table Mountain, Cape Town’s skyline does not have much to recommend it. The so-called high-rise buildings in the central business district, all 14 of them, look more or less the same to me: brownish brutalist hulks with the occasional glint of glass.Read more  [more...]

SEATTLETIMES: When Christopher Larson, a retired Microsoft executive and minority owner of the Seattle Mariners, got divorced this year in King County Superior Court, one of the biggest challenges proved to be dividing a $102 million art collection that included works by Claude Monet and John Singer Sargent.Read more  [more...]

BEELD: Herbert Vogel, ’n afgetrede Amerikaanse posklerk en kunsversamelaar, is vroeër vandeesweek in New York oorlede. Hy was 89. Vogel en sy vrou, Dorothy, ’n afgetrede bibliotekaresse, het die afgelope 50 jaar meer as 2 500 werke van Amerikaanse kunstenaars versamel, onder andere dié van Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre en Ed Ruscha.Read more  [more...]

AT: Were you somewhat surprised by winning the Absa Atelier Awards, I mean not only you won the award on an installation, you also are from Bloemfontein, does this give you a sense that the Judges are on the ball. EJ: It has almost been a week now, and I can still not believe that I have actually won the Absa L’Atleier! It feels almost to huge to grasp! But I also feel very proud - especially being the first artist from Bloemfontein to win! From the 77 artists that were selected for the final exhibition, at the Absa Gallery, ten of us were from Bloemfontein, so I definitely think Bloemfontein is on the rise… J   [more...]

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MAIL & GUARDIAN: Anthea Buys: A new collaboration sees a handful of fine artists collaborating with local designers to create unique designer objects. Luxury goods designers in South Africa are going places that most artists only read about when soaking up paint spills with last week’s news. Thanks to a voracious international market for high-end design — particularly the sort that incorporates crafty, hand-made details — and to a few savvy local designmongers, the name Kerri Evans is more likely to become popular with rug connoisseurs than with painting pundits. Read more  [more...]

BEELD: Fotografie voer vanjaar die botoon op die Clover Aardklop Nasio­nale Kunstefees se visuele kunsteprogram.Die feeskunstenaar, Daniel Naudé, stal ’n versameling werke uit onder die titel Animal Farm, ’n reeks foto’s met die Africanis-hond as onderwerp.
Hierdie reeks foto’s het ontstaan tydens ’n reis van Kaapstad na Mosambiek in 2008. Terwyl Naudé deur die vlaktes van die Karoo gery het, het hy ’n wilde Africanis-hond gesien.
Hy het stilgehou en gekyk hoe die dier wegdraf met ’n skuimende mond en dit het hom herinner aan ’n karakter uit die verhale van J.R.R. Tolkien.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Anna Somers Cocks explains why this Hayward Gallery show, closing 5 August, should not be missed. By Anna Somers Cocks. Gianni Motti’s picture frames around apparently blank paper, "Magic Ink", 1989, were made with secret ink that immediately becomes invisible. Anyone listened to the 1963 song “Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa” lately? Did you laugh? So why did it make us feel pleasantly weepy then? How long can we understand a work of art in the terms of its own time? Fifty years? Twenty? Probably not more than five if it is contemporary art, which is as finely tuned to the mood of the moment as pop music, but usually with an additional load of more or less philosophical baggage that makes it even harder to penetrate after the theory has moved on.
Precisely because of this, I recommend catching “Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012” at the Hayward Gallery in London until 5 August. For starters, it’s excellent value for money according to a young friend of mine, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, because it forces you to concentrate and read the labels (in self-effacing grey on the walls), otherwise the mysteries remain a mystery.
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TELEGRAPH: Buying art can reap financial rewards – if you know what you're looking for, says Alison Steed. Investing in the markets when they are as volatile as they are at present may not seem that appealing, but if you prefer to take a view on some of the finer things in life, then you might want to consider some alternative investments.
Putting your hard-earned cash into the likes of fine wine, classic cars or artworks may seem like a frivolous activity at first suggestion, but there is serious money to be made if you invest in the right items. For example, Edvard Munch’s The Scream – one of the world’s most famous paintings – was sold earlier this year for a record $119.9 million, making it the most expensive artwork ever to sell at auction.This was not a one-off either – at a recent Sotheby’s auction in France, a number of pieces sold for record values for the particular artists, suggesting there is an increasing appeal for great artwork among the collectors.Read more
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DAZED: We talk to the Russian artist who sewed up his mouth in protest against the Pussy Riot's Imprisonment. Since Pussy Riot were arrested back in March, more than 100 Russian cultural figureheads have signed an open letter calling for their release, while over 12,000 (and counting) participants have supported Amnesty’s text campaign. But this week was all about Petr Pavlensky, who on Monday sewed up his own mouth in protest of the women’s severe treatment at the hands of the Russian justice system. Standing solemnly in front of St. Petersburg’s Kazan Cathedral, the 28-year old Russian performance artist held up a banner reading ‘Pussy Riot act is a replay of a famous act by Jesus Christ’.
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The artist Martin Creed invites everyone in the UK to ring a bell at 8.12am on 27 July, the day of the Olympics opening ceremony, as part of his London 2012 festival project All the Bells Work No 1197. Join in, or just make some noise, with our bell-ringing interactive
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BEELD: Mama Uyimbohodo II, die werk (linodruk, droëpunt-ets en embossering) waarmee Bambo Sibiya verlede week die 2012 Gerard Sekoto-prys gewen het. Die Sekoto-prys is een van die pryse wat oorhandig is op vanjaar se Absa L’Atelier-geleentheid in Johannesburg. Sibiya het, benewens ’n kontantprys, ook ’n kunstenaarsverblyf van drie maande in Parys, Frankryk, gewen.Read more
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DIE BURGER: Conn Bertish wys een van sy meer omstrede “advertensies”, wat deel van die uitstalling Experiment 0834319513 is. Mense wat dié nommer geskakel is, se boodskappe is opgeneem. Die opnames word vandeesweek saam met die plakkate self uitgestal. Foto: NASIEF MANIE
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DIE BURGER: KAAPSTAD. – Van borsmelk tot Botox, dassiebiltong tot perdevleis – watter vreemde goed het jy al op lamppale geadverteer gesien?Byna ’n jaar nadat hy Kapenaars met sy “advertensies” laat glimlag of skel het, stal Conn Bertish vandeesweek sy uitgebreide sosiale eksperiment in die Blank Projects-galery in Woodstock uit.Die sowat 70 kartonplakkate wat hy oor 11 maande in die Moederstad opgesit het met vreemde goed of dienste te koop, het wyd reaksie ontlok en selfs ’n paar keer in nuusberigte opgeduik.
Wie sou durf om perdevleis in Houtbaai te verkoop? Of alibi’s buite die hooggeregshof te adverteer? En waar sou hy borsmelk, dassiebiltong of hondjiepelse in die hande kry? Read more  [more...]

ART SMART:Andrew Walford will hold another of his highly popular Pottery Open Days at the Walford Studio in Shongweni on August 5.Hear about Andrew's recent trips to Korea and the UK and browse around the exhibition of hundreds of pots. The tables will be laden with hand basins, tiles, splash backs, tea bowls, soup mugs, jumbo and miniature porcelain bowls Read more
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THE ART NEWSPAPER:A glut of investment products has mirrored the rise of the Chinese art market, but caution is advised. By Katie Hunt. Market,The Tianjin Cultural Artwork Exchange had to stop trading in 2011 due to fears of inflated prices. The strength of the Chinese art market, the world’s leading economy for art and antiques, has spawned a parallel boom in art funds and other art-investment vehicles worth more than Rmb5.77bn ($900m), according to the Chinese-language publication Eastmoney. There are billions more held in art-related products offered by investment trusts and art exchanges that enable people to buy and sell shares in individual works. Read more  [more...]

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THEARTNEWSPAPER: The essayist and playwright David Mamet says that the function of mass entertainment is to “cajole, seduce and flatter consumers to let them know that what they thought was right is right, and that their tastes and their immediate gratification are of the utmost concern to the purveyor”. But Mamet continues: “The job of the artist, on the other hand, is to say: ‘Wait a second—on the contrary, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let’s re-examine it.’” Although many in the art world conform to Mamet’s definition of mass entertainers, three new films confirm that, outside the confines of fairs, salerooms and fashionable galleries, others are intent less on success for its own sake than on addressing wrongs.Alison Klayman’s “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” goes on general release in July, having played the festival circuit to great acclaim. It’s a project born from a lucky break, after Klayman was hired to make a promotional film for a gallery show of the artist’s work in Beijing in 2008. “I’d say: ‘Do you mind if we keep filming?’” she told The Art Newspaper last year. “Eventually, he introduced me to someone [saying]: ‘This is Alison; she’s been around forever… filming me,’ so then I knew I was in.
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BBC: By Rebecca Cafe: Banksy has recently put up stencils commenting on the OlympicsFor many, London is the number one place in the world for street art.
But now as the Olympics approaches, many artists are complaining that artwork is being removed in some areas but not in others.
Meandering among the market stalls and curry restaurants of Brick Lane in east London are people stopping to soak up the street art.
Tourists armed with camera phones and art lovers with high-end cameras all stand to absorb the stencils and murals which adorn every available space.
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TELEGRAPH: A bronze sculpture by Henry Moore valued at up to £500,000 has been recovered by police 10 days after it was stolen from the grounds of a museum.
Three men were arrested by Hertfordshire Police and the 22-inch high piece, Working Model for Sundial, 1965, was recovered along with a bronze plinth.
It had been feared the abstract piece would be melted down and sold for scrap after being taken from the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green, near Much Hadham, Herts, overnight on July 10.
A tip-off from a member of the public following a police appeal on the BBC1 Crimewatch programme led to the sculpture's recovery.
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MAIL & GUARDIAN. Matthew Krouse:There has been little speculation about what changing depictions of the Western body in history may mean in Africa today.
There is so much white flesh depicted on the walls of the Standard Bank Art Gallery in the exhibition 20th Century Masters: The Human Figure that the show could be sub­titled “50 ways to shade the European pigment”.
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INCORRIGIBLE CORRIGALL: By Mary Corrigall. An exhibition called Not my War, curated by David Brits, is currently showing at the Michaelis Gallery.Last year I wrote quite an extensive feature on the topic. It was prompted by the emerging canon of literature connected to the war and the artworks and visual records that were being exhibited. It felt as if this period of our history was finally coming into view, but as I quickly discovered the information was limited, distorted and mythologised via what Liebenberg termed "war porn." The compulsion to suppress this history persists.
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BEELD: Johan Myburg. Keith Dietrich se Many Rivers to Cross / Conflict Zones, Boundaries and Shared Waters (2012) as deel van die uitstalling Terra Pericolosa in Fried Contemporary in Pretoria.
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“Gerard de Leeuw believed he could make rain. Or, to be more precise, he believed that the bronze smelting that he practised from his suburban foundry in Orange Grove, Johannesburg, had the unintended but inevitable effect of producing rain, regardless of the season.”
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RESOURCEINVESTOR: Adrian Ash.The oddest thing thing about today's Great Depression? The lack of a collapse in the art market.Previously a bellwether for the global economy, turnover in fine art sank by three-fifths in the early '90s. It tanked again in the early Noughts, taking the revenues (and equity valuations) of the big auction houses down with it.  [more...]

WASHINGTON POST:By Matt Schdel: Herbert Vogel, a retired New York postal worker who, with his wife, Dorothy, created one of the world’s most unlikely — and most significant — collections of modern art, died Sunday at a nursing home in New York City. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by Anabeth Guthrie, a spokeswoman for the National Gallery. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
In April, the Columbia Museum of Art announced a gift of almost 600 works of art from the Vogels, who built a collection of more than 4,500 pieces. The Columbia Museum of Art is the second-largest repository of the Vogel collection, trailing the 1,100 pieces held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington.  [more...]

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BEELD: Elrie Joubert het die 2012 Absa L’Atelier-prys verower met haar installasiewerk Selective Unveiling.JOHAN MYBURG:Die wenners van die 2012 Absa L’Atelier-kunskompetisie is gisteraand in Johannesburg aangekondig.
Elrie Joubert het die Absa L’Atelier-prys gewen en Bambo Sibiya is aangewys as die wenner van die Gerard Sekoto-prys.  [more...]

BEELD: DEBORAH STEINMAIR: Die Kaapse skrywer Lauren Beukes skryf nou strippe vir die Amerikaanse mark.Sy het as strippeskrywer gedebuteer met All the Pretty Ponies van Strange Adventures. Pas het sy die tweede van ses strippe vir DC Comics se Fairest-reeks geskryf.   [more...]

CAPE TIMES: THE WORLD’S OLDEST CHEMISTRY SET? New Discoveries from Blombos Cave. At Iziko SA Natural History Museum until October 13, 2014. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews. THE shell of the perlemoen or abalone is a common sight for many South Africans who have spent any time at the coast. Although blessed with a beautiful satiny interior, this shell doesn’t have a history of high regard. It often performs the debased role of ashtrays in dingy bars or holiday shacks and a container for kitsch miniature cactus gardens sold at tacky flea markets.  [more...]

TELEGRAPH UK: The dynamic, chaotic culture of a continent on the move is captured in London 2012 Festival's 'We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today', the biggest survey of West African art seen in Britain to date, writes Mark Hudson.  [more...]

TELEGRAPH UK Sprinter, sailor, torchbearer, chef... those who have paved the way to the London Games are the subject of an inspiring new show Aiming High at the National Portrait Gallery, says Jim White.  [more...]

BLOG.PSYCHCENTRAL: By RICHARD ZWOLINSKI, LMHC, CASAC & C.R. ZWOLINSKI
Photo by Ron Jeffreys.After reading this excellent article in Psychiatric Times, which comments on the new definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the DSM-5, we had a long conversation about NPD. We’ve both interviewed several people who’ve had relationships with people who had NPD and I’ve worked with clients with this challenging disorder.  [more...]

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2012 Absa L’Atelier Art Awards showcase South Africa’s top young artists Hundreds of local artists heeded the call for entries for the 2012 Absa L’Atelier Art Competition, Africa’s pre-eminent annual art competition – the awards ceremony of which was held at the Absa Gallery today.
The two stand-out pieces – Selective unveiling by Elrie Joubert and Mama Uyimbohodo II from Bambo Sibiya – took top honours as this year’s overall winning work and recipient of the Gerard Sekoto Award for the most promising artist with an annual income less than R60 000, respectively.
Now in its 27th year, the Absa L’Atelier Art Competition, in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), is rated as the longest-running and most influential art contest on the continent. It pays homage to both established and emerging young local artists and their compelling artistic vision.   [more...]

SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Cradle of Humankind by Steven Cohen and Nomsa Dhlamini is one of the performance art showing 28th 2012 National Arts Festival held in Grahamstown the Eastern Cape. The festival started on the 28th of June and end on the 8th July Picture: Sizwe Ndingane  [more...]

ALL AFRICA. The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme continues to remain a veritable platform for young Nigerians to showcase skills in many spheres of human endeavour.  [more...]

MAIL & GUARDIAN: The Nelson Mandela Museum has opened a youth art exhibition on the South African democracy icon's life in his childhood home Qunu.Eight artists aged between 15 and 23 were chosen from over 100 entries to exhibit their works at the museum in the rural Eastern Cape province.  [more...]

THE ART NEWSPAPER. London's Southbank Centre hosts 29 Cultural Olympiad "Unlimited" commissions. By Jane Morris. With 50 days to go to the Paralympic Games (29 August to 9 September), London's Southbank Centre has held a launch event to promote a major festival of art, dance, music and other performance created by deaf and disabled artists, scheduled to coincide with the games.  [more...]

SWISSINFO.COM: Michèle Laird. Massive storage units around the globe are increasingly in demand by the booming art market, offering a duty and tax-free place to store art and make sales easier. Switzerland remains a leader in this middle-man arena.
The globalisation of the art market is dramatically changing the international landscape of art.  [more...]

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INCORRIGIBLE CORRIGALL: A horizontal line drawn across Lindiwe Matshikiza’s naked back extends beyond her body on to a wall she is pressed up against. She won’t stand still, however, so the line doesn’t remain straight.  [more...]

The opening of The Tanks will be seen as a pivotal moment in the history of art, but at the first exhibition the curatorial failure was more or less total, writes Richard Dorment.  [more...]

THE ART NEWSPAPER:Atmospheric underground arenas seem tailor-made for performance and video workThe Tanks at Tate Modern, which open to the public on Wednesday 18 July, were launched on Monday night with a party that continued until past midnight, complete with film-premier-style spotlights sweeping the guests as they arrived in London's power station turned modern and contemporary art museum.  [more...]

ART TIMES:If you did not make it to being on the top vip list for the Absa, be sure to catch al the winners in tomorrow Art Times.Hundreds of local artists heeded the call for entries for the 2012 Absa L’Atelier Art   [more...]

ARTINFO: Responses to The Atlantic's Contentious Article. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” has kicked off a typhoon of debate across the country. Slaughter, the former director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department and longtime Princeton academic, has made waves with her decree that present conditions make having both a satisfying work life and raising a family impossible and that the feminist dream to “have it all” is simply not possible. As Katie Couric stated in her panel with the author at the recent Aspen Ideas Festival, the article has struck a chord, opening the floodgates for discussion on a topic that affects the future of the American workforce.  [more...]

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SOUTHAFRICA.INFO. Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile has called on South Africans to play their part in celebrating Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday by setting aside some of their time to assist others.

On 18 July, coinciding with Mandela's birthday, individuals and organisations around the world are challenged to spend at least 67 minutes doing good work in their own communities in honour of the 67 years that Mandela gave in service and sacrifice.Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile has called on South Africans to play their part in celebrating Nelson Mandela's 94th birthday by setting aside some of their time to assist others.  [more...]

MANDELA DAY.For Nelson Mandela Day 2011, the entire country is mobilising to donate 67 minutes of their time towards making a positive contribution to society. Below is a list of projects, events and activities that are taking place around the country:  [more...]

BEELD: Deur Hanti Otto.Familietwis oor ’n oorspronklike Pierneef-skildery met ’n geskatte waarde van byna R2 miljoen het in die Pretoriase handelshof beland nadat ’n prokureur sy stiefsuster van bedrog en diefstal beskuldig het.Lohine Horne het ontken dat sy Koos Jordaan se erfstuk onregmatig gevat en verkoop het.Die 1954-kunswerk van Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, getiteld Karoo naby Middelburg CP, is ’n olieverf-landskaptoneel van ongeveer 40 cm x 55 cm.  [more...]

BEELD: Edgar Degas se Danseuses sur la scène (Dansers op die verhoog), 1889, olie op doek (76 x 82 cm) is in Johannesburg te sien as deel van die uitstalling 20ste eeuse meesters: die menslike lyf. Etlike van die werke in dié uitstalling in die Standard Bank-galery kom uit die versameling van die kunsmuseum in Lyon, Frankryk. Die uitstalling met Sylvie Ramond as kurator, is deel van die Frans-Suid-Afrikaanse Seisoen 2012 & 2013. Die uitstalling duur tot 15 September.  [more...]

There are two weeks left to submit proposals for the 19th Absa KKNK in Oudtshoorn.   [more...]

DIE BURGER Deur Anna-Retha Bouwer. Vanjaar se Nasionale Kunstefees op Grahamstad het 8,7% meer besoekers as verlede jaar getrek.  [more...]

TIMES LIVE:A missing Klimt painting that was rediscovered last week is by Ernst Klimt, not his more famous brother Gustav, an expert on the Austrian symbolist painter said, contradicting an art dealer who is preparing to sell it at auction.  [more...]