Bring South Africa closer with the best local shows from KykNET International and ShowMax.
This filmmaker from Cape Town wants everyone to just be a bit more positive about South Africa.
As the prices at auction for contemporary art begin to climb, we ask if international buyers are starting to notice? We wonder if South African art is the next place for buyers with big cheque books to make their mark.
There is another side of poaching that is rarely explored. What are the socio-economic issues that drive people to poach? A South African filmmaker has won an award for a documentary focussing on just that.
Moffat Takadiwa – Foreign Objects – Tyburn Gallery Where: 26 Barrett Street, London, W1U 1BG (Closest Tube Bond St) Dates: Nov 5 – Jan 9, 2016 Why you’re going to see it: His stuff is street art with stuff from the actual street Born in Karoi, Zimbabwe, in 1983, and currently based in Harare, […]
Strauss & Co’s summer auction on 9 November at the Wanderers Club will include among its highlights an Italian casting of Anton van Wouw’s famous Dagga Smoker.
An interview with art collector Julian Smith about why he promotes South African art internationally and what to look for when buying South African art.
Giles Peppiatt, Director of the South African Art Department of Bonhams, addressed the question of why there has been such a huge global rise in value of South African art in recent years at the Irma Stern Museum in Cape Town
Last week, Irma Stern’s painting ‘Fisherman, Madeira’ sold for £338,500 (R6.1 million) at Bonham’s gallery in London
A ground breaking season of South African films that will screen in cinemas across the UK
Next Tuesday at the Hoxton Arches, a Zimbabwean (Gordon Glyn-Jones), a South African, (Christiaan Nagel) an English artist living in Cape Town (Oliver Barnett), will join eleven other UK artists for a group show called Human Nature a celebration of emerging and cutting edge environmental art.
On 1 October, Bonhams London will auction eleven works by Irma Stern with a combined estimate of £2-3million in their biannual South African Sale.
The South African award winning thriller Four Corners has been invited to screen as part of a special UK film tour designed to bring attention to South Africa’s 20 Years of Democracy
Following Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies’ visit to Hollywood last week, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will be leading a delegation of South African film makers to Los Angeles to engage with the major studios, the minister announced on Tuesday.
The star of the show at Strauss & Co’s winter sale held last night at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg was undoubtedly JH Pierneef, when a new all-time world record was set by his previously unseen painting, Farm Jonkershoek with Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch.
Irma Stern (1894-1966) continues success with £1 million action price for oil on canvas portrait in original Zanzibar frame.
Arthur Goldreich, who escaped from prison dressed as a priest, created the magical design for Madiba in 1983.
Masterpiece by Alexis Preller expected to fetch between £150 000 and £200 000 at famous London art sale.
Anant Singh’s film based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography has been selected for the Royal Film Performance, a fundraiser attended by members of the British royal family on 6 December.
Irma Stern’s painting was the top-selling item at the Bonhams South African Sale in London, held on the artist’s birthday.
Dubbed the South African ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, ‘Durban Poison’ is a moody noir romance set among South Africa’s marginalised white underclass, which will be screened at the BFI London Film Festival this week.
Like last year, there are three South African films at the 2013 BFI London Film Festival. These are moody noir romance ‘Durban Poison’, ‘Felix’, a drama about a Zulu boy who wants to become a jazz musician and ‘Of Good Report’ about a paedophile school teacher, which was banned at its opening in Durban.