Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser and J.H. Pierneef were central pillars of Strauss & Co’s monumental late-summer auction in Cape Town last weekend.
Painting remains the benchmark medium for South African art collectors, with quality works by Irma Stern, J.H. Pierneef, Alexis Preller, Walter Battiss and Robert Hodgins commanding reliably firm prices at Strauss & Co live auctions. The forthcoming Cape Town sale, which will be held at the Vineyard Hotel on 6 March, includes a robust offering […]
Talk about wearing many hats.
Arguably South Africa’s best known artist opened his solo show ‘Premise’ at Circa gallery in the Waterfront last night. Lionel showed a range of new work, including stunning large bronze heads and examples of new subject matter, exploring identity through portraiture. The work incorporates new models, some full length and some in new mixed-media. Lionel […]
The 2nd of March is the last day of Uncommon Ground: New Art from the Landscape brings together the work of 11 contemporary Artists at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in Kensington, London, to bear witness to the reciprocal, critical and often un-classifiable relationship between the artist and the landscape. The exhibition includes the work […]
Katy Perry put this fan through the most!
They may be Oscar winners but daaaam do they get some hate!
The entire cast and crew of La La Land were already on stage, then they announced there had been a “mistake.”
Art Africa 2017 opens its doors on the 24th and runs until the 5th of March. It’s Cape Town’s first fully curated trans-African Art show and well worth the attention of collectors and private art buyers alike. It will be held in Jubilee Hall, Watershed, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town.
We have so much talent here at home, so its extra important we support our local artists.
Katy Perry is back and more politically charged than ever.
The Bey Hive was all kinds of angry.
African gods and goddesses get the superstar treatment.
Ever feel like you miss the cool happenings in the Capital? Well, here you go. Now all you gotta do is brave the cold and get your butts out there! Tamsin Relly – Private View Party Tomorrow Night sees Tamsin’s new group show open at the exclusive House of Barnabas. Imagining the Amazon is an […]
The Fatuous State of Severity by Phumlani Pikoli [book review]
2016 will be remembered as the year ‘diversity-angst’ came out the closet with a bang!
Social documentary photographer, Tanya Houghton’s recent exhibition suggests that a powerful way to dissolve such fear is through food
James Corden, karaoke and the Queen of Pop… nuff said!
Artivism at its best: designer Vanessa Gounden showcases her latest designs that highlight the ravaging affects of breast cancer and its treatments
Get your quirky nativity set, because nothing says anti-establishment like Jesus.
South African hip-hop artist, Ross Jack recently released his new single, Fear the Rush.
Professor says he sees scant chance of the survival of the Afrikaans culture in the long-term or even the survival of the Afrikaners as “a people” in new book
Was EFF’s call to boycott the SATY Awards the reason they have been postponed?
Bitter Eden is the vivd, frank and starkly intimate account of author Tatamkulu Afrika’s life as a WW2 prisoner of war