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Wednesday 10 March : Exhibition Opening Today, White City by Samson Mnisi, UJ Art Gallery, Jhb.     (10 Mar 10)


Wednesday 10 : Exhibition Opening Today 10 March, Visages, vistas and variety among the vines, over 200 painting on exhibition, Nova Constantia Cellars, CT.     (10 Mar 10)
An exhibition entitled ..on the verge, of over 200 paintings by over 40 artists.After over 12 months of dedicated and determined graft by both Hout Bay based art teacher Angela Baybaya and her students, the studio’s fourth exhibition is going on display.   [more...]

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition opening Tomorrow, New works by Kerri Evans, 11 March, Everard-Read Gallery, Jhb.     (10 Mar 10)

Wedesday 10 : Exhibition opening Tomorrow, Origination-a project by Katie and Rebecca Beinhart, 11 March, US Gallery, Stellenbosch.     (10 Mar 10)

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition Opening Tomorrow 11 March, solo shows by Ângela Ferreira and Natasja Kensmil. Walid Raad will exhibit concurrently as part of the FOREX project series. Michael Stevenson Gallery, CT.     (10 Mar 10)

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition Opening Tomorrow, Shapes And Scapes featuring Richard Scott, Katherine Wood and Philip Briel, Imbizo Gallery, KZN.     (10 Mar 10)
Exhibition opens @ 6:30pm on 11 March.  [more...]

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition Opening Tomorrow 11 March, Lyndi Sales' Blur Zone, Gallery MOMO, Jhb     (10 Mar 10)
Gallery MOMO presents LYNDI SALES’ Blur Zone, opening Thursday 11 March @ 18h30 – 20h00 and concluding 12 April 2010.  [more...]

Wednesday 10 : A Meeting of action at JAG on the current state of art and freedom of speech, Today @ 3 pm, JAG, Jhb.     (10 Mar 10)
On Sunday, 07 March 2010 the Thami Mnyeli and Medu retrospective catalogue was launched at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. In response to a panel discussion with regard to the role of the artist in the Struggle, concerns were raised about the current state of art in South Africa. Recent discussions in the media have brought to the fore issues of freedom of speech as well as the meaning of art in nation building. At this meeting several members of the art community mobilized to take action in the name of our democracy.A meeting for action at JAG will take place on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 @ 3pm.   [more...]

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition opening, Perceptions by Johann Moolman, 14 March, The Gallery Grande Provence, Franschhoek.     (10 Mar 10)

Wednesday 10 : The Icon Project, Strauss Auction, 15 March, CT     (10 Mar 10)
On 15 March @ 8:00pm
Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics. At the Vineyard Hotel, Newlands.  [more...]

Wednesday 10 : ABSA L’Atelier Art Award 2010 – KZN Regional exhibition, 15 March, ArtSPACE Durban.     (10 Mar 10)
Opening Monday 15 March @ 6:30pm.  [more...]

Wednesday 10 : Exhibition opening, Medicinal Introspective by Nicholas Bellamy, 16 March, Anne Bryant Coach house, East London.     (10 Mar 10)
Nicholas Bellamy will be exhibiting in the Ann Bryant Coach House on Tuesday 16th March @ 6:30pm.  [more...]

Wedensday 10 : Exhibition opening, Critical Mass by cheryl Gage, The Artists Proof Studio, 16 March, Jhb     (10 Mar 10)
Artist Proof Studio is hosting an exhibition entitled Critical Mass, the exhibition includes Monotypes and multiple prints that artist Cheryl Gage, printed in collaboration with master printer Tim Foulds at Tim’s Printing Studio. Exhibition opens on 16 March and closes on 31 March 2010.  [more...]

Wednesday 10 : Opening show, Random graphics from private collections-William Kentrige, 16 March, 34FineArt, CT.     (10 Mar 10)
34FineArt’s brand new gallery space at Buchanan Square in Woodstock launches with an exhibition of William Kentridge graphic works entitled RANDOM GRAPHICS FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.  [more...]

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition Opening Today 09 March, Oil paintings by Hannes Meintjes And ceramics by Delphine Niez, David Moss & Lynnley Watson, at Montage Gallery, P.E.     (09 Mar 10)

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition Opening Tomorrow 10 March, Visages, vistas and variety among the vines, over 200 painting on exhibition, Nova Constantia Cellars, CT.     (09 Mar 10)
An exhibition entitled ..on the verge, of over 200 paintings by over 40 artists.After over 12 months of dedicated and determined graft by both Hout Bay based art teacher Angela Baybaya and her students, the studio’s fourth exhibition is going on display.   [more...]

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition opening, Origination-a project by Katie and Rebecca Beinhart, Thursday 11 March, US Gallery, Stellenbosch.     (09 Mar 10)

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition Opening 11 March, solo shows by Ângela Ferreira and Natasja Kensmil. Walid Raad will exhibit concurrently as part of the FOREX project series. Michael Stevenson Gallery, CT.     (09 Mar 10)

Melvyn Minnaar: Letter in The Cape Times: The problem with Lulu Xingwana     (09 Mar 10)
The problem with Lulu Xingwana is not that she is homophobic (which, despite her objections, still sounds likely), but that she is the minister of arts and culture.   [more...]

Future Generation Art Prize     (09 Mar 10)
A new high profile art prize is taking entries from all over the world for any artists under the age of 35. The prize is founded by billionaire Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk, and offers a huge $100 000 prize, as well as a group exhibition for the shortlisted artists at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, one of the largest and most active new contemporary art institutions in Eastern Europe; and, probably the most exciting, mentorship by Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami.  [more...]

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition Opening 11 March, Shapes And Scapes featuring Richard Scott, Katherine Wood and Philip Briel, Imbizo Gallery, KZN.     (09 Mar 10)
Exhibition opens @ 6:30pm on 11 March.  [more...]

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition Opening 11 March, Lyndi Sales' Blur Zone, Gallery MOMO, Jhb     (09 Mar 10)

Tuesday 09 : The Spier Contemporary 2010, South Africa’s largest biennale art competition and exhibition on 14 March, CT City Hall.     (09 Mar 10)

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition opening, Flights of Fantasy - an exhibition of paintings by Karin Human and sculptures by Luella Mossom, 14th March, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria.     (09 Mar 10)

Tuesday 09 : 83rd National Open Exhibition of the Watercolour Society of S.A., 14 March, Manor Gallery, Jhb.     (09 Mar 10)
83rd National Open Exhibition of the Watercolour Society of South Africa – top watercolourists exhibit.  [more...]

CAPE Platform Statement:     (09 Mar 10)
CAPE Africa Platform's domain will expire on 1 April next, unless someone manages to change the minds of the current CAPE directors and its chairman.  [more...]

Tuesday 09 : A Meeting of action at JAG on the current state of art and freedom of speech, Tomorrow 10 March, JAG, Jhb.     (09 Mar 10)
On Sunday, 07 March 2010 the Thami Mnyeli and Medu retrospective catalogue was launched at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. In response to a panel discussion with regard to the role of the artist in the Struggle, concerns were raised about the current state of art in South Africa. Recent discussions in the media have brought to the fore issues of freedom of speech as well as the meaning of art in nation building. At this meeting several members of the art community mobilized to take action in the name of our democracy.A meeting for action at JAG will take place on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 @ 3pm.  [more...]

Tuesday 09 : Exhibition opening, New works by Aidon Westcott, 14 March, The Cape Gallery, CT.     (09 Mar 10)
Recent works by Aidon Westcott opening Sunday 14 March @ 4:30pm. Exhibition ends 27 March.
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Monday 08 : Exhibition Opening Tomorrow 09 March, Oil paintings by Hannes Meintjes And ceramics by Delphine Niez, David Moss & Lynnley Watson, at Montage Gallery, P.E.     (08 Mar 10)

Monday 08: Opening tonight @ 6 pm, Waters-Vesia-Amanzi at the AVA, CT.     (08 Mar 10)
Waters-Vestia-Amanzi an exhibition featuring work by Kristiina Korpela, Jill Trappler, Leena Mäki-Patola, Witty Nyide, Jaana Partanen and Eunice Geustyn.   [more...]

Monday 08: Vanya du Toit is opening her first solo exhibition, Searching for Sangri-La. Tonight @ 7pm at Wessel Snyman Creative, CT.     (08 Mar 10)

Monday 08: An exhibition of new established and investment artists works, opens Today, at the Lindy van Niekerk Art Gallery, CT.     (08 Mar 10)

Press release: Bonhams - Arica Now- Sale in New York Remits the old Roman saying: Always something new out of Africa     (08 Mar 10)
`Africa Now' Auction Is The First Commercial Auction Of African Contemporary Art Ever Held In The US. The `Africa Now’ sale at Bonhams in New York on 10th March, is a timely reminder of that old Roman expression – `Always something new out of Africa’, with a range of exciting new talents on view in New York  [more...]

Arts and Culture Minister responds to her critics     (08 Mar 10)
Linda Stupart:
The Minister of Arts and culture responded to criticisms of her walkout of a major exhibition, Innovative Women with a press release yesterday, which, while it claims that the minister "rejects homphobia", clearly indicates a complete ignorance of art practice, feminist and post colonial discourses and, in statements reminiscent of Giulianis famed silencing of the arts in New York in the 90s, indicates a hugely disturbing trend towards censorship in the arts in South Africa. And here we thought mismanagement of funding and budget cuts were the DAC's major problems.   [more...]

South African Artists Merchandising     (08 Mar 10)
The Fringe Arts is a newly established arts project company conceptualising and managing an art and design pop-up store, The Fringe, as part of Spier Contemporary 2010.  [more...]

Press Release: Great Texts / Big Questions – RoseLee Goldberg on Performance Art – 11 March 2010     (08 Mar 10)
RoseLee Goldberg, a world authority on performance art, will be guest speaker at GIPCA’s Great Texts / Big Questions lecture on 11 March. She will be discussing how she came to write the seminal Performance Art from Futurism to the Present. This free hour-long lecture starts at 5pm at Hiddingh Hall, UCT’s Hiddingh Campus, Orange Street, Cape Town.  [more...]

CAPE Platform Statement:     (08 Mar 10)
CAPE Africa Platform's domain will expire on 1 April next, unless someone manages to change the minds of the current CAPE directors and its chairman.  [more...]

Press Release:Festival of choices: The Absa KKNK turns 16     (08 Mar 10)
“It is a privilege for Absa to be a part of the KKNK, which can be regarded as one of the success stories of the past sixteen years of democracy. We are extremely proud that South Africa’s most popular festival is celebrating its 16th birthday and that we are involved as title sponsor for the fifth year.” These are the words of Happy Ntshingila, Absa Executive Director: Group Marketing and Communication.

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The South African Society of Artists Merit Exhibition     (08 Mar 10)
The South African Society of Artists Merit Exhibition Saturday 20th March - Wednesday 31st March 2010.The Sanlam Hall, Kirstenbosch Gardens   [more...]

Monday 08 : Exhibition opening, New works by Kerri Evans on Thursday 11 March, Everard-Read Gallery, Jhb.     (08 Mar 10)

Sunday : Thami Mneyele & Medu Retrospective Catalogue Launch, Today 07 March, JAG, Jhb.     (07 Mar 10)

Sunday 07 : Opening Today @ 3pm-6pm, Vandalism exhibition and live performance at Gallery MOMO, Jhb.     (07 Mar 10)

Saturday : A walkabout with artist Julia Rosa Clark as part of her exhibition Paradise Apparatus, Today @ 11 am at What If The World Gallery in Cape Town.     (06 Mar 10)
Paradise Apparatus, a solo exhibition by Cape Town artist Julia Rosa Clark.
Exhibition ends 27 March.
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Saturday : Opening Today 06 March @ 2pm Beast at Home by Bonita Alice at Art on Paper Gallery in Johannesburg     (06 Mar 10)

Saturday: Exhibition opening, Pages of my mind by Tekheli Mokitimi at Alliance Française, Port Elizabeth, Today from 11am – 1pm     (06 Mar 10)
Exhibition ends 25 March.  [more...]

Saturday 06 : On Sunday 07 March @ 3pm-6pm, Vandalism exhibition and live performance at Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg.     (06 Mar 10)
Live performance presented by The Zimology Institute and film by African Noise Foundation featuring musicians Zim Mgqawana and Kyle Shepherd, filmmaker Aryan Kaganof and photographer Andrew Tshabangu.  [more...]

Saturday 06 :Opening @ 6pm on Monday 08 March, Waters - Vesia - Amanzi at the AVA, Cape Town     (06 Mar 10)
Waters-Vestia-Amanzi an exhibition featuring work by Kristiina Korpela, Jill Trappler, Leena Mäki-Patola, Witty Nyide, Jaana Partanen and Eunice Geustyn.  [more...]

Saturday 06: Vanya du Toit is opening her first solo exhibition, Searching for Sangri-La. Opening on Monday 08 March at Wessel Snyman Creative, CT.     (06 Mar 10)

Saturday 06 : Exhibition opening Today, New paintings by Jenny Parsons at the Dorp Straat Galery     (06 Mar 10)
Exhibition ends 03 April.  [more...]

Saturday : Thami Mneyele & Medu Retrospective Catalogue Launch, Sunday 07 March, JAG, Jhb.     (06 Mar 10)

Saturday 06: An exhibition of new established and investment artists works, on Monday 08 March, at the Lindy van Niekerk Art Gallery, CT.     (06 Mar 10)

Saturday 06: Exhibition Opening, White City by Samson Mnisi, on 10 March, UJ Art Gallery, Jhb.     (06 Mar 10)

Friday : Opening @ 9 am on Saturday, Time Lapse Landscape by Hardus Koekemoer at Trent Art Gallery in Pretoria     (05 Mar 10)
An exhibition of landscapes painting in oil on paper depicting the mood and atmosphere of the Free State. Exhibition ends 18 March  [more...]

Friday 05: Opening @ 9 am on Saturday 06 March, Here & there, an exhibition featuring works by various artists at Carol Lee Fine Art: Upstairs@Bamboo, Johannesburg     (05 Mar 10)
Here & there” featuring works by Guy du Toit, Diek Grobler, Jaco Benade, Cobus Haupt, Liekie Fouche, Kobus Walker, Angela Banks, Lori Schappe-Youens, Phillipa Allen, Louis Olivier, Kagiso Pat Mautloa, and Eugenie Marais. Exhibition ends 14 March.<  [more...]

Friday 05: Editor's Choise: Art Smart: Durban University of Technology and Art for Humanity host international conference on Art and Social Justice     (05 Mar 10)
Durban University of Technology and Art for Humanity host international conference on Art and Social Justice  [more...]

Friday 05 Editors Choic'e: Mail and Guardian: Xingwana: Homophobic claims -baseless- insulting     (05 Mar 10)
Female artists snubbed by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana at an exhibition last year have called her response homophobic and unconstitutional, despite the minister's protests to the contrary, the Mail & Guardian heard on Thursday.   [more...]

New Project for Athiptara Ruga     (05 Mar 10)
Athi-Patra Ruga presented the premiere performance of his new Ilulwane Project at traditional cool-kid hangout, EVOL (which is ‘love’ spelled backwards) last Monday night, demonstrating his trademark flair for elaborate costume, intense physical performance, violence, pathos and the absurd and carnivalesque.   [more...]

Editor's Choice: Mail and Guardian:Darkness visible     (05 Mar 10)
Late last year choreographer and curator Jay Pather was standing on an artwork resembling a metal mat, placed in a corner of Cape Town's city hall.  [more...]

Thursday : Editors Choice: The Times: Minister slams 'porn' exhibition     (04 Mar 10)
Minister refuses to open exhibition after she is given preview of photographs
By SALLY EVANS EXCLUSIVE: (The Times) The opening of an exhibition by young, black women artists at Constitution Hill turned sour when Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stormed out of the exhibition, calling the work "immoral".   [more...]

Thursday : The SA Art Times: Governments Art and Culture: Report Card for 2010     (04 Mar 10)
Peter Machen canvased the country's various culture departments for their plans for arts and culture for 2010. The results were not hugely encouraging.  [more...]

Thursday : Opening tonight @ 6:30 pm Enter Exit a photographic exhibition by Pierre Crocquet at the Pretoria Art Museum     (04 Mar 10)
"In Enter Exit Pierre Crocquet has captured the existential realities of a small community on the periphery of sociopolitical developments in South Africa, whose daily lives have not escaped the effects of these developments.   [more...]

Thursday : An evening with the artist Angus Taylor Tonight @ 5:30 pm for 6 pm as part of his exhibition New York at CIRCA on Jellicoe     (04 Mar 10)
Exhibition ends 31 may.  [more...]

Thursday : Editor's Choice: Die Burger: Aardklop kry nuwe bestuurder     (04 Mar 10)
Andries Vrey (33) is aangestel as feesbestuurder en uitvoerende hoof van die Aardklop- nasionale kunstefees.

Vrey is reeds vir baie jare ­betrokke in die kunstewêreld waar hy as vryskutdramaturg en akteur verskeie produksies op die planke gebring het en wend sy kundigheid ook aan in artikels, ­resensies en rubrieke.  [more...]

Thursday : Editor's Choice: Die Burger: Kuns wys pioniers van gemengde rasse- en kultuurherkoms     (04 Mar 10)
’n Tentoonstelling in die P.J. Olivier-kunssentrum in Stellenbosch deur die kunstenaar Cobus van Bosch vertel die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika se pioniersgroepe van gemengde rasse- en kulturele herkoms.   [more...]

Thursday : Editor's Choice: IOL: Arts minister in lesbian art photo furore     (04 Mar 10)
By JASON WARNER: An artist has accused Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana of being homophobic, after she stormed out in disgust over a "pornographic" art exhibition featuring black lesbian couples.   [more...]

Thursday : Editor's Choice: Mail and Guardian: Lulu Xingwana describes lesbian photos as immoral     (04 Mar 10)
A South African government minister walked out of an exhibition because it featured photographs of nude lesbian couples that she found "immoral" and "against nation-building".   [more...]

Thursday: Gallery MOMO at Art Karlsruhe 04-07 March     (04 Mar 10)

Thursday 04: William Kentridge Opera opens at the New York Metropolitan     (04 Mar 10)
Tomorrow night, March 5, William Kentridge's production of The Nose, a little known avant-garde Shostakovich opera, will be opening at the Metropolitan in New York to much international anticipation and a close to sold-out audience; making him the first South African to direct an opera in this premiere performance space.
See the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiApgeMKvDo   [more...]

Innovative look at Colour in South Africa at Rhodes University Conference     (03 Mar 10)
On March 27 & 28th, the Rhodes University Fine Art Department will be hosting a Colour Colloquium, which seeks to address issues of colour in South African art practice in a model that looks beyond the issues of race and racism with which the word is usually associated in the South African context.   [more...]

Opening tonight @ 6 pm “Deep down everybody wants to rob a bank” solo exhibition by Norman O’Flynn showing at the Erdmann Contemporary Gallery in Cape Town.     (03 Mar 10)
A solo exhibition of his new work in a variety of media including painting, sculpture and works in mixed media. O’Flynn uses bold colours and a pop art style to tackle the thorny issue of crime in South Africa. Exhibition ends 27 March.  [more...]

Recomended: Gallery opening tonight: Swallow my Pride, Blank Projects     (03 Mar 10)
An exhibition of 'queer art', curated by Margaret Stone, Dale Washkansky, Lizza Littlewort and William Martin, is opening at blank projects tonight. It's been a while since we've seen a focussed curated show in Cape Town (barring, of course, mega shows like Dada South) and this first-time curatorial endeavour for Stone, Littlewort, Martin and Washkanksy looks set to turn some heads in the gay and straight communities.   [more...]

Opening tonight @ 6pm " swallow my pride" at Blank Projects     (03 Mar 10)
“Swallow my pride” a group exhibition featuring works by Zanele Muholi, Andrew Putter, Pierre Fouché and Werner Ungerer, Ernst Van der Wal, Lizza Littlewort, Robert Hamblin, James Taylor, Julie Donald, Kai Lossgott, Jody Paulsen , Igshaan Adams, Genevieve Louwe and Johke Steenkamp, William Martin, Lindsay Nel, Andrea Brand, and others.Exhibition curated by Margaret Stone, Dale Washkansky, Lizza Littlewort and William Martin.Ends 20 March.  [more...]

Press Release: Countdown to Spier Contemporary 2010 on 14 March     (03 Mar 10)
The Spier Contemporary 2010, South Africa’s largest biennale art competition and exhibition, launches at Cape Town’s City Hall on 14 March, 2010. This year sees 101 artists exhibiting work in mediums such as photography, digital design, video, sound installation and performance art.   [more...]

Spier Contemporary 2010: New Space, New Trends     (03 Mar 10)
With Spier Contemporary just around the corner, we spoke to project manager and member of the curatorial team, Farzanah Badsha, about the changes in the exhibition since it's launch and inaugural event in 2007:   [more...]

Opening tonight @ 6:30 pm The TUT Annual Photographic exhibition at the Centurian Art Gallery     (03 Mar 10)
Awards and presentations will be made to the top students of 2009. The exhibition is presented by the Department of Visual Communication: Photography of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), in partnership with the Centurion Art Gallery.   [more...]

Museum Africa Collects Football Memorabilia     (03 Mar 10)
Johannesburg’s Museum Africa has taken the initiative to begin in earnest the collection of World Cup memorabilia, and items looking at the history of football in South Africa, form part of its permanent collection.   [more...]

Press Release: WALE gives arts the edge     (03 Mar 10)
Only two months to go until the WALE 2010 gets underway and already the programme is set to deliver on WALE’s promise to deliver “arts on the edge”.  [more...]

Alex Dodd Column: March     (02 Mar 10)
When I heard that Peter Eastman was exhibiting at Co-op, Whatiftheworld¡¯s sleek new Joburg satellite, I was quick to diarise the date of his Thursday evening opening soiree in Braamfontein. Although my appreciation of his work has always been something of a staccato affair, punctuated by the blur of distance between Joburg¡¯s 26¢ª10 South and Cape Town¡¯s 33¢ª55 South, I¡¯ve often been struck by his fleet and streety, clean cut graphic approach to creative production.   [more...]

Editor's Choice: Beeld: Amptelike stilswye dui op gebrek aan kunssteun     (02 Mar 10)
Melvyn Minnaar
Die Spaanse ambassadeur het ’n naweek of wat gelede ’n vernuftige kultuurkinkel gegee aan die diplomatieke ritueel wat jaarliks met die amptelike opening van die parlement ­gepaard gaan.   [more...]

Editor's Choice: Die Burger: Kuns en woord byeen in uitstallings op Woordfees     (02 Mar 10)
Twee groeptentoonstellings wat deur universiteite saamgestel is, word op die Woordfees gewys. Die uitstalling onder die titel Allooi is deur die Universiteit van die Vrystaat saamgestel, en die uitstalling Oor die Einders van die Bladsy word deur die Noordwes-universiteit aangebied.  [more...]

Editor's Choice: IOL:Check out this fabulous scene By Diane de Beer     (02 Mar 10)
Art hopping is something I associate with overseas travel, even though it can happen locally. But perhaps one needs to travel from one city to the next to achieve that feeling of anticipation.  [more...]

Editor's Choice: IOL:So, is it art? By Renee Moodie     (02 Mar 10)
The Times reported in an exclusive today that a Joburg art exhibition turned sour when Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stormed out.  [more...]

Editor's Choice: The Times: Minister slams 'porn' exhibition     (02 Mar 10)
By SALLY EVANS

EXCLUSIVE: The opening of an exhibition by young, black women artists at Constitution Hill turned sour when Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana stormed out of the exhibition, calling the work "immoral".   [more...]

Jo-Mare Rabe Column: Blue Chip     (01 Mar 10)
ROI. I am almost completely convinced that most of you would know what those three letters stand for, but until a few days ago, I did not. "What's the expected ROI?", I was asked by a board member at a meeting I attended to discuss a potential branding and marketing project I have become involved in. I could not answer her question.   [more...]

Wooster Collective in Cape Town to Meet Artists this Friday Night     (01 Mar 10)
Marc and Sarah of the Wooster Collective are in Cape Town this weekend, after presenting at Design Indaba yesterday. The Wooster Collective is one of the most important and longstanding art blogs around, and certainly the most important resource for street art in the world, launching the now well-known culture of street art (as opposed to traditional graffiti) and many of its major proponents like Banksy and Swoon, into the public imagination.  [more...]

Major Tretchikoff exhibition planned for end of October     (01 Mar 10)
Rumours have been circulating for some time about a major Tretchikoff exhibition in 2010, and yesterday during his Pecha Kucha talk at the Design Indaba, curator to the stars, Andrew Lamprecht, confirmed that he is working with the Tretchikoff Foundation on launching the exhibition end October.   [more...]

JOBURG ART FAIR COMING UP     (01 Mar 10)
With Spier Contemporary opening in a few weeks, Joburg Art Fair at the end of March and even the colour colloquium in Grahamstown, South Africa's gallerists, artists, critics and theorists are gearing up for a busy March!

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Peter Machen: Durban Column: March 10:     (26 Feb 10)
The tale of Andries Botha's latest elephants, stone-and-gabion creatures trying against the odds to emerge from the soil of eThekwini, reminded me of another eThekwini narrative, one that was sadly never visually documented, but which lives on in the minds of many Durbanites.
Durban – both the municipal City and the bulk of its residents – has never looked too kindly on graffiti or embraced street art with much fervour.   [more...]

Melvyn Minnaar: The Artful Viewer: March 2010: Walk-about, talk-about     (26 Feb 10)
The latest fashion, in case you’ve not noticed, is the gallery walkabout. Even hole-in-the-wall exhibition spaces that pop up a few artworks under what they think is a witty title and call it ‘curated’, now advertise ‘walkabouts’. Sometimes they even serve cups of tea, or a drink.  [more...]

Editor's choice: IOL: 'Visionary rebel with a cause', artist dies aged 60     (26 Feb 10)
By Jason Warner

After a short battle with cancer, one of South Africa's respected artists, described as a "visionary rebel with a cause", has died.
Barbara Jackson, 60, life partner of world-famous "functional art" creator Carrol Boyes, died at the home she shared with Boyes and their daughters Kim Jackson-Meltzer, 34 and Martine Jackson-Clotz, 31, on Saturday morning.   [more...]

Show Review: Our contemporary African symbolist     (26 Feb 10)
Exhibition: Ndikhumbule Ngqinmbi at the AVA Gallery until March 5.
Review: Melvyn Minnaar

In his famous Symbolist Manifesto of 1886, Jean Moréas declared art’s war on “plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description”. It’s pretty much what we experience in this second exhibition by this rising star. All that, plus a dense, intriguing African mysticism.  [more...]

Show Review: An ancient medium redeployed     (26 Feb 10)
Exhibition: Gina Heyer at the I Art gallery until February 25.
Review: Melvyn Minnaar
In her painting Fragment (oil on board, 2008-2009), a curious electric blue light glimmers ghostly on the wall to the right in the picture’s high geometric construction. It shimmers like neon ectoplasm and seems to pull one’s eye backwards and forwards from the ‘ordinariness’ of the image: a corner on a stairwell landing.  [more...]

Report on the Stefan Welz & Co Auction (Swelco) Sale last night     (25 Feb 10)
From Swelco: The Stephan Welz & Co Summer auction of Decorative and Fine Arts in Cape Town exceeds expectation with strong results across all departments: Charles M. Schultz’s Snoopy sells for R95 200: Maggie Laubser’s Woman with a Head Scarf sells for R784 000: Stanley Pinker’s Two Nudes achieves R 313 600   [more...]

Swelco Cape sale results: Some good prices at Swelco auction     (25 Feb 10)
By Michael Coulson

While the sell-through rate by number at the first art auction of the year may have disappointed auction house Stephan Welz & Co, and four of the top estimate lots went unsold, the lots that did sell fetched good prices. While the overall gross (including buyer’s premium) of about R8.6m trailed the low estimate of R10.5m, the average price realised of R46 140 (admittedly, including buyer’s premium) topped the average pre-sale low estimate of about R45 140.  [more...]

Botha's Elephants' Fate Still Undecided     (25 Feb 10)
By Peter Machen: The fate of the elephants constructed by sculptor Andries Botha and his team of workers on a freeway island in Durban remains unknown at the time of writing, although clouded with rumour. It has now been widely reported that Botha's team was told to cease construction several weeks ago after a man in a black SUV stopped on the freeway, where the sculptures were being built from stone and steel gabions, and ordered that the work be halted - apparently because the elephants are a symbol of the IFP and Durban is an ANC city.
That man was identified by the workers as John Mchunu, regional chairperson of the ANC, although Mchunu has reportedly denied this.   [more...]

Stauart Birds: Two fingers show at Youngblackman Gallery, Cape Town     (25 Feb 10)
With a remarkable sense of timing, provocative artist Stuart Bird opened Two Fingers at YOUNGBLACKMAN last night. Bird is well known for criticising Zuma's policies in the past, with his Zuma Biscuits, which comprised of giant Zoo Biscuits imprinted with images of a skirt, shower, machine gun and Zulu shield causing much controversy in 2007/8. Though it may not be his original intention, Bird's latest work once again could be seen to take a satirical look at our president.   [more...]

Next Big Thing: Strauss Cape Town auction preview     (25 Feb 10)
By Michael Coulson

Not surprisingly, Strauss & Co's first auction of 2010 can't match up to its no-strings-left-unpulled debut last year, but a gross low estimate of just over R26m is respectable enough and the catalogue includes some interesting features. Notably, there are a score of works from the collection of the late Edith Dodo, and no fewer than 30 works, all apparently from one private collector, by William Timlin. If estimates are realised, new auction records could be set for several artists.  [more...]

Barbara Jackson 1949 - 2010     (24 Feb 10)
A truly great human being, and art icon of South African Craft and Ceramics passed away quietly last week in Cape Town.

Barbara Jackson died after a short illness and was buried over the weekend.
Barbara Jackson was more than just an art icon in South African art, she both placed new benchmarks in the promotion of South African Craft, and as an artist, pushed the borders of Ceramics, as well as it’s perception in creating new use of forms, materials and colour.<  [more...]

Banksy Movie to hit UK cinemas in March     (24 Feb 10)
Banksy's Directorial debut. The world's most famous street artist, and arguably one of the most important artists of the last few decades, Banksy, has directed a feature film, which will be released in the UK March 5th.   [more...]

The Next Big Thing: Strauss & Co. Auction in March     (24 Feb 10)
Strauss - Cape Town 15 March 2010 at 8:00pm Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics.Venue: The Vineyard Hotel, Newlands  [more...]

Robert Watermeyer Selected for Acclaimed International Photography Exhibition     (24 Feb 10)
2008 Michaelis Prize Winner, Robert Watermeyer has been selected for the second installment of the Aperture Foundation's reGenerations 2: Tomorrow's Photographers Today. The show is an elite travelling exhibition accompanied by a shiny Thames & Hudson catalogue, which claimss to exhibit the 80 best young photographers in the world.   [more...]

GIPCA: Cape Town: Great Texts / Big Questions public lecture series resumes     (23 Feb 10)
World-acclaimed artist William Kentridge is one of the speakers participating in the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) 2010 Great Texts / Big Questions lecture series.Philosopher and political commentator Daniel Herwitz will kick off the series on 4 March when he will discuss ‘Talk Show Democracy: Stars, Celebrities and American Politics. Professor Herwitz, Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, USA is currently Mellon Visiting Research Fellow at UCT.   [more...]

Show: Cape Town: Stuart Bird shows: Two fingers at Youngblackman Gallery Wednesday 24 February     (23 Feb 10)
Stuart Bird, who has received much press over his inflammatory political sculptures, will be showing a new work at YOUNGBBLACKMAN this week. Bird's oeuvre deals with contemporary issues of racism, sexism, corruption and violence, always from the self-aware (non) position of a white male English South African.   [more...]

SWELCO Fine Arts Auction Tomorrow, Tuesday 23 February     (22 Feb 10)
Art Auctions: Swelco starts the new SA Art Auction season 2010 Kirstenbosch Gardens. Major works by Maggie Laubser, JH Pierneef, Cecil Skotnes,
Vladimir Tretchikoff and Pieter Hugo Naudé headline the inaugural auction of the Stephan Welz & Co 2010 calendar.   [more...]

NAC Funding cut drastically cuts 2010 funding ability     (22 Feb 10)
The Department of Arts and Culture has cut the National Arts Council budget in half for the 2010/2011 financial year, leaving only R 14 million in the NAC budget. Furthermore, the NAC has calculated that this will leave only R 2 million across all provinces and all 7 disciplines (including film, theater, music and visual arts). The NAC will thus only be having one funding call this year, and, as anyone who has organised a large-scale project, event or exhibition will attest, R 2 million is close on what one large-scale cultural project requires, an amount now intended to serve all proposals across the country.   [more...]

Business Art: Bonhams New York Africa Sale     (19 Feb 10)
By Michael Coulson. Those seeking enlightenment on the state of the market in SA art won’t find Bonhams’ next African modern & contemporary art sale, in New York on March 10, of much use. More than half the 137 lots – 73, to be precise – emanate from Nigeria, and while SA is next most represented, with 24, most are hardly worth a second glance and would barely qualify for the evening sale of any of the major local auction houses.<  [more...]

Bonhams: New York Sale     (19 Feb 10)
Bonhams will be hosting the first commercial auction of Contemporary African Art to be held in America on Wednesday 10 March 2010 in Madison Avenue, New York. Entitled ‘Africa Now: Contemporary African Art’, the sale will include an array of post-war and contemporary art from Africa, and is rumoured to set a new standard of prices paid for art from the African Continent.   [more...]

Nadja Daehnke leaves SA National Gallery for UCT Michaelis Gallery / GIPCA     (19 Feb 10)
Nadja Daehnke worked her last day at the Iziko South African National gallery last Thursday, and has now taken up her position as curator of the Michaelis Gallery on Hiddingh campus. With the Michaelis Gallery much in need of real curatorial attention and management for some time, this new GIPCA post was hotly contested amongst the South African art world, with Daehnke joyfully coming out on top.  [more...]

UK National Portrait Gallery unveils new portrait by Paul Emsley of writer V.S. Naipaul     (19 Feb 10)
Nobel-Prize winning writer V. S. Naipaul in a new BP commission portrait painted at author’s Wiltshire home. Commissioned by the Trustees as part of the First Prize, BP Portrait Award, 2007

A painted portrait of Nobel Prize winning writer V.S. Naipaul has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and unveiled there today.  [more...]

Editor's Choice: Die Burger: Botha besin oor menswees     (19 Feb 10)
Amanda Botha.Die beeldhouer Andries Botha is vanjaar die Woordfees se feeskunstenaar. Amanda Botha, kurator van visuele kuns vir die fees vertel meer. Die internasionaal ge­vierde beeldhouer ­Andries Botha is vanjaar die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Woordfees-kunstenaar.  [more...]

SA National Gallery Closes for 6 weeks for rehanging     (19 Feb 10)
The South African National Gallery will be closed for six weeks from the 1st March for both a refurbishment and rehang in preparation fr the World Cup. Instead of hosting yet another soccer themed exhibit, Riason Naaido has chosen to rehang the entire gallery so that it will be filled with South African art, a bold and exciting move for a gallery positioning itself to represent the country to both locals and tourists.   [more...]

Red card over wait for soccer art cash     (18 Feb 10)
Patrick Burnett:
With four months to go until the 2010 World Cup kicks off, hopes for an arts and culture programme to accompany the event are waning, with millions promised by the Department of Arts and Culture yet to materialise.  [more...]

'Prodigal Son' Kendell Geers returns to SA     (18 Feb 10)
Kendell Geers is in Cape Town to deliver a paper at the Dada South? Symposium on Thursday (entitled Much ado about nothing, the secret history of Fuck). Speaking at a surprisingly low-key, though very packed, lunchtime lecture at the Michaelis School of Fine Art today, Geers drew attention to his Fifa Art Poster, a decidedly innocuous image made by covering a soccer ball in ink and bouncing it around on white paper.  [more...]

Ndikhumbule Ngqinambi : The window Part 1     (18 Feb 10)
Ngqinambi returns to the AVA for his much anticipated second solo exhibition. A gifted story teller, his paintings offer us the opportunity to escape, to soar across farm fields and skylines.   [more...]

Editor's Choice: Art Daily: Zwelethu Mthethwa's Long Waited First Monograph to be Published by Aperture     (18 Feb 10)
NEW YORK, NY.- Since Apartheid’s fall in 1994, South African photography has exploded from the grip of censorship onto the world stage.  [more...]

Symposia Week for Cape Town Arts Enthusiasts     (18 Feb 10)
The upcoming week provides two very different symposia in Cape Town, both with interesting exhibitions and events on their periphery. The Dada South? symposium launches tomorrow at Rust en Vreugd at 8:30am.   [more...]

Editors Choice: Beeld: Resessie sorg vir verandering by alle galerye – groot en klein     (17 Feb 10)
Marilyn Martin :
Die ekonomiese krisis en resessie het interessante verwikkelinge in die visuele kunstemark teweeggebring, veral wat galerye betref.   [more...]

Editors Choice: Burger: Vroeë werk van Laubser onder hamer     (17 Feb 10)
’n Besonder bekoorlike ­portret van ’n vrou met ’n kopdoek wat Maria ­Magda­lena (Maggie) Laubser (1886-1973) in 1925 op haar familieplaas Oortmanspost in die Kaapse ­distrik geskilder het, word komende Dinsdagaand in Kirstenbosch op ­Stephan Welz en Kie se lenteveiling te koop aangebied.   [more...]

Editor's Choice: Artslink: Photographer David Goldblatt speaks out     (17 Feb 10)
Moira de Swardt: David Goldblatt sounds a warning to the arts community when he suggests that the title of this exhibition should be "I Am Afraid".  [more...]

Painting Stolen from new artists collective, Loop Street, Cape Town     (17 Feb 10)
This painting has been stolen from new artists collective studios, Loop Stree, Cape Town on Friday 12th February  [more...]

Show Opening: The Brodie - Stevenson Gallery, Jhb..18 February - 19 March 2010Michael MacGarry: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie     (17 Feb 10)
Be sure to catch his show entitled: THIS IS YOUR WORLD IN WHICH WE GROW,
AND WE WILL GROW TO HATE YOU  [more...]

Press Release: Sekoto & Pierneef – the ebony and ivory of South African art – at Bonhams, a reminder of the distance Mandela travelled     (16 Feb 10)
Painting from Sekoto’s days in District Six, Cape Town, prior to leaving South Africa for good is sale highlight  [more...]

Show: DANCING JESUS!!, Greenmarket Square, Cape Town     (16 Feb 10)
14H30 ON WEDNESDAY 17th, THURSDAY 18th & FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY AT GREEN MARKET SQUARE ON THE STEPS OF THE MICHAELIS GALLERY.
When I was at Art school in London I was friendly with the Bishop Lancelot Fleming. In his view Christianity’s emphasis on the crucifixion and suffering of humanity is misplaced. He felt there should be a much greater emphasis on the resurrection, and on the symbolic rebirth of Christ within all of us. It is this that has inspired my sculptures of the Dancing Jesus, and the performance I’m presenting at Infecting The City.   [more...]

Editors Choice: Sunday Tribune: Get rid of these elephants!     (15 Feb 10)
Greg Arde.

A world-acclaimed artist has been ordered to stop work on three elephant sculptures next to the main highway into Durban after complaints from the ANC-led council that the animals are a
symbol of the rival Inkatha Freedom Party.  [more...]

Editors Choice: Beeld: Johan Myburg : Minnette Vári     (15 Feb 10)
Johan Myburg
Minnette Vári van Johannesburg se werk as visuele kunstenaar sluit in installasie, optrede, beeldhou,fotografie en digitale-
video- werk.
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Editors Choice: Die Burger: Eerste Nasionale Bank borg Joburg Art Fair vir nog drie jaar     (15 Feb 10)
Die derde Joburg Art Fair (JAF) word van 26 tot 28 Maart in Sandton aangebied.
Dié vertoonvenster van kontemporêre Afrika-kuns en -ontwerp bied vanjaar uitstalruimte vir 23 galerye en 11 spesiale projekte, en word aangebied met die finansiële steun van die naamborg, Eerste Nasionale Bank (ENB).  [more...]

Editors Choice: Die Burger: ‘Niemand kan McQueen se skoene vul’     (15 Feb 10)
Londen. – Die skielike dood van Alexander McQueen laat ’n leemte in Londen se mode-heelal.  [more...]

Editors Choice: IOL: Designer Search aims to discover new talent     (15 Feb 10)
By Arts writer, Metal 2010 is the sixth annual New Designer Search pioneered by Carrol Boyes, which aims to discover and nurture new product design talent.  [more...]

Business Art: Art Auction results indicate market recovery     (15 Feb 10)
By Michael Coulson

Though London's post-war and contemporary art sales didn't match the hype of the previous week, they confirm that the recovery in the art market is broad-based.   [more...]

Editors Choice: Fashion designer Alexander McQueen dies aged 40Tributes     (12 Feb 10)
flow in for 'master of the fantastic' found dead at West End home a few days before London fashion week
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Editors Choice: Nu art of marketing     (12 Feb 10)
More and more corporates are using alternative means of marketing. If marketing was relatively easy decades ago, today's sophisticated youth have made it a lot more difficult.
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Editors Choice: Meneghelli, kunstenaar en vriend van kunstenaars     (12 Feb 10)
Johan Myburg
Vittorio Meneghelli, bekende kunsversamelaar en -handelaar, is Maandagaand in Johannesburg dood. Hy was 94.   [more...]

Editors Choice: The Art Newspaper: Why satellite art fairs are recession-proof     (12 Feb 10)
Fairs work just like real estate, and when commercial rents go south, opportunities pop up  [more...]

Recomended Exhiition: Swallow My Pride, Blank Projects, Cape Town     (12 Feb 10)
A group exhibition curated by Margaret Stone, Dale Washkansky, Lizza Littlewort and William Martin.Burn down the disco Hang the blessed deejay. Because the music that they constantly play IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE.' (The Smiths: Panic) Like Morrissey's outburst against the irrelevance of the mainstream disco scene to his lived experience of gay London in the '80s, Swallow My Pride is a visceral response to the commercialisation of gay culture in Cape Town.   [more...]

Forget Spier, rather become a local hero in the Hermanus Art Scene     (11 Feb 10)
With all that huge R 1 000 000 ++ budget and hype, just who can remember anything from last Spier Contemporary show, besides Andrew Putter, and the food and wine running out early far to early and load, sweaty art hooligans taking over the awards podium.

Now a new local art (with a fraction of budget) competition with R 50 000 in Prizes was announced this week, in Hermanus  [more...]

Art Auctions: Swelco starts the new SA Art Auction season 2010     (11 Feb 10)
Viewing: at Kirstenbosch Gardens starts on Friday 20 February
Auction: happens on Tuesday 23 February 2010

Major works by Maggie Laubser, JH Pierneef, Cecil Skotnes,
Vladimir Tretchikoff and Pieter Hugo Naudé headline the inaugural auction of the Stephan Welz & Co 2010 calendar.  [more...]

Press Release: Symposium: Dada South? Exploring Dada legacies in South African art- 1960 – the present     (11 Feb 10)
Dada South? Symposium: The critically acclaimed exhibition Dada South? is one of the first locally produced museum exhibitions that places focus on a major international art movement of the 20th century, from the unique perspective of recent South African art.  [more...]

The incredible Vittorino Meneghelli, art collector and humanist born Mirano, Italy 1915 - died last night (Monday), 08 February Johannesburg 2010     (10 Feb 10)
The following extract is from the Book launch of Vittorino's life: "My Life My Collection"(2007) at The SA National Gallery by Professor Pippa Skotness
We will be writing a more comprehensive obituary in March's SA Art Times.  [more...]

Art happening bull slaughter cancelled     (10 Feb 10)
The organizers of the Infecting the City festival have decided to remove the slaughtering of a bull from the festival’s itinerary to avoid controversy  [more...]

Press Release: PPC announces Concrete Sculptor Workshops     (10 Feb 10)
Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) has announced its 2010 workshop schedule for artists who intend entering this year’s PPC Cement Young Concrete Sculptor Awards competition. Now in its 19th year, the competition continues to produce exceptional works of art through the unique medium of concrete, which, as the entrants prove every year, can meet even the most intricate demands of artistic expression.   [more...]

News Update: Rendezvous focus Original Lithography     (10 Feb 10)
The RENDEZVOUS art project in partnership with French master Lithograph Elisabeth PONS is bringing a body of lithographical works from extensive PONS' collection (Paris, France) to South Africa.  [more...]

A wave of optimism at the London sales [ 08 Feb ]     (09 Feb 10)
Christie’s and Sotheby’s have won their gamble. The Impressionist & Modern Art sales on 2 and 3 February in London generated one global all-segment record and 29 results above £1m out of 87 lots offered. Christie's managed to sell 87.5% of its lots for £61m (est. £48m-69m) plus the £8.5m from its special session devoted to surrealist art. Source: Art MarketInsight , Art Price. Read more here



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

Review: Melvyn Minnaar: Taking Pictures, Telling Stories at the Exposure Gallery until February 15.     (08 Feb 10)
Sometimes a surprise encounter is the best thrill. This little show really needs more space, but the humble presentation (and also that cluttered challenge to viewers in what is really a photographic shop) underpins a certain unassuming honesty about the whole project, and a directness which is crystal clear.   [more...]

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

Michael Coulson: Recession What recession as Art Auctions sales boom     (08 Feb 10)
Recession? What recession? Stunning prices in last week’s sales by the two leading London auction houses confirm that any recession there may have been is well and truly over as we go into a new year.  [more...]

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

Pre-Post-Per-Form - colloquium on interdisciplinary and performance art     (08 Feb 10)
Cape Town - 20 to 22 February 2010
UCT’s Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) will host Pre-Post-Per-Form, a colloquium to explore interdisciplinary and performance art from 20 to 22 February at the University’s Hiddingh Campus in central Cape Town. This is one of the first of its kind in Africa.   [more...]

Press Release: Official Statement: National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 2010 Funding     (05 Feb 10)
Reports have appeared in the media in the last week which make reference to the National Arts Festival in relation to a broader story about the Department of Arts and Culture’s activities in 2010. According to Tony Lankester, CEO of the national Arts Festival, some of these reports have been misconstrued by readers and listeners, and some have created the incorrect impression about this year’s Festival.

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




 



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