What is the real value of Ayanda Mabulu’s art?
Sale will paint picture of contemporary art value
Artist Van Embden creates novel way to find her sense of place
Gwen van Embden?s exhibition Genius Loci (a sense of place) is a refreshing prospect. Staged in her attractive Gardens studio off Dunkely Square.
Rare chance to grab African gems
It is not surprising that Gerard Sekoto, Ernest Mancoba and generations of South African artists gravitated towards Paris
Athi-Patra Ruga: Getting to grips with notion of a Rainbow Nation
His fixation with Nongqawuse, the unruly Xhosa prophetess, is also linked to the way women have been excluded in historical or political narratives.
Land - an endless obsession for artists
Land has featured in the artwork of many South African artists. It is an important, and recurring theme in art that distinctively South African.
Pierneef's works and other landscapes on auction
Art historians such as Juliette Leeb-du Toit, point to the obsession with the landscape as one tied to politics and establishing nationhood.
Shany van den Berg: An artist emerges out of the fires from her past
Her fixation with historical artefacts is perhaps not unexpected given she lost her belongings.
Urbanski: Fixated on artificial art from all abstract angles
He has settled on a vocabulary and aesthetic that chimes with these times though its lines extend back in time.
SA artist’s twist on selfies
Changing Faces, a work from Michele Silk?s series, New Eve which looks at selfies.
Fringe art fair gives artists space to grow
The Joburg Fringe is not about pushing an anti-Joburg Art Fair agenda or challenging it, it is simply more artist-centric.
Elements of Realism exhibition review: Transported to another realm
It is easy to see why this painter chose to represent this bucolic setting, which is the head-turner at the Elements of Realism exhibition.
Themba Khumalo exhibition: Hovering on edge of darkness
The scale of his drawings ensures a visual and undeniable emotive impact ? our nostalgic attachment to the African veld.
Let the bidding wars begin
Two people who will never meet or see each other will engage in a nail-biting online bidding battle for candlesticks, or any other desirable object, on one of Strauss & Co’s online auctions.
National treasures on auction
Few people get to work in an office alongside a painting that could be worth R16 million.
It's all Penn-ed in the clouds
Stepping into Robyn Penn’s exhibition is a celestial experience as you find yourself surrounded by depictions of clouds.
Circa embraces whimsical, factual art
Testament to the manner in which the creative economy is expanding and flourishing new galleries open all the time, however a large one located in an historical building by the oldest, most established art brand – Ev
Bright ‘Sounds of a Free Soul’
“EVERYONE looked at me like I deserved not to be born,” recalls Lizette Chirrme of her childhood. The Mozambican artist, whose exhibition A Sinfonia da Alma Liberta II (Sounds of a Free Soul) opens at
Collaged photo cut-outs
“I FEEL repulsed by images of African masks,” observes Larita Engelbrecht. The young artist laughs, knowing it to be a most unlikely statement for her to make, given her upcoming solo exhibition at Ebony/Curate
The cult of beauty
THE third wave of feminism hasn’t been too different to the second; women are again growing their underarm hair. Only this time they are dying it shocking colours and sharing images of their underarm-dos on social me
Fashion stores - the new museums
Luxury designer-fashion stores have become places for viewing and studying objects, writes Mary Corrigall.
Meet the Post Apartheid Chief Gangster
Themba Shibase's exhibition at the National Arts Festival doesn't sugar-coat his opinion of politicians.
The overlooked literary landscape
The debate sparked by Thando Mgqolozana draws attention to all kinds of absences in our society, writes Mary Corrigall.
New generation’s genre-bending festival
At Wits University’s Detours festival, the contemporary dance and physical theatre works are presented by a new generation of artists.
Artists best placed to tackle statues
Given that the Rhodes statue is an artwork, it would be quite suitably cannibalised by artists, says Mary Corrigall.
Braving digital detox
Digital overloading sees more people opting out of the social media treadmill, writes Mary Corrigall.