From left: Themba Mbuli, Siya Makuzeni, Mohau Modisakeng, Jade Bowers, and Avigail Bushakevitz_
Five of South Africa’s brightest creative stars were named as recipients of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards on Wednesday, October 28, recognising and honouring their dynamic and outstanding contribution to the vitality of the arts in the country. Continue reading
Irma Stern’s Congo Natives
The Irma Stern exhibition, Brushing Up on Stern, comes to a close at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town on Sunday, November 1. Continue reading
Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery, taken by Dornac, 1910
MIDLANDS Forum in Howick will be playing host to Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, grand-daughter of the man who supported the French Impressionist painters, including Monet, Pissarro, Degas and Renoir, at a time when they were not being given their due. Continue reading
HARTS (the Howick Arts Society) is hosting an art exhibition at the Greendale Centre in Howick until noon on October 31. Continue reading
Matt Kay. Oasis Beach. From the series The Front. Durban
OPENING at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Street, Glenwood, on Wednesday, October 28 at 6.30 pm is The Front, a solo exhibition by 2014 Tierney Fellow Matt Kay. Continue reading
A chest of drawers sold for close on R2 600 000 at Strauss & Co’s auction in Cape Town drawing gasps from the packed saleroom. This important 18th century chest of drawers, which was formerly part of the collection of Vergelegen, was hotly contested between two international buyers on the telephone. Continue reading
WP van Heerden, A shattered view of an artist, oil on canvas
ARTIST, WP van Heerden, is staging his exhibition, Shattered Views, at the Tatham Art Gallery’s Schreiner Gallery in Pietermaritzburg from Sunday, October 18 to Sunday, December 6. Continue reading
Karen Bradtke’s Girls With Guns.
AN exhibition which pays tribute to pulp fiction can be viewed at artSPACE Durban, 3 Millar, Road, until October 31. Continue reading
MY Heritage, an exhibition by Hilary Grant-Currie, will open at Longmynd Art Gallery, 24 Old Main Road in Hillcrest today, October 7 and runs to October 28. Continue reading
Art in the Park will be staged in the iconic London Plane Tree avenue in the botanical gardens next year. Celebrating the news are (from left) Lihle Dlamini, director of marketing and communications at Sanbi, artist Francoise Cheyne and Dumisani Mhlongo, director of Msunduzi Pietermaritzburg Tourism. PHOTO: Estelle Sinkins
RESEARCH conducted at the 53rd Art in the Park exhibition this year found that for the event to thrive it needed a new home and new attractions to increase foot traffic and drive art sales. Continue reading
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