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1) SA Art Times Walkabout Arts Survey: Lloyd Pollak, arts journalist
SA Art Times took a walkabout this week around the SA Art community. Take a read below from 2 of the 8 folk that we bumped into along the way. See next week for contributions from: Michael Smith, Joost Bosland, Jonathan Garnham and Mary Corrigall.
2010 Art highlights?
For me there were three great highlights during the course of 2010. The first, I can state without demur, was Katharine Smith and Roger van Wyk's Dada South at the South African National Gallery. more
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2) SA Art Times Walkabout Arts Survey: Peter Machen, arts writer
SA Art Times took a walkabout this week around the SA Art community...
How do you think the current recession influenced South African art in 2010?
I think that the art market is, for the most part, sharply segmented into two different sectors, one of which consists of the relationship between galleries and investors and another which consists of the relationship between the public and artists. more |
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3) SA Art Times Walkabout Arts Survey: Sean 'O Toole, arts journalist
Art highlights of 2010?
In no particular order:
1. Zander Blom's accomplished debut as a painter seemingly unencumbered by the history of abstract painting, at Michael Stevenson. more |
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4) SA Art Times Walkabout Survey: Mary Corrigall, arts writer for the Sunday Independent
Art highlights in 2010?
Nicholas Hlobo's exhibition Paintings at Brodie/Stevenson.
Lulu Xingwana's removal from her post as Minister of Arts and Culture.
Gimberg Nerf befriending the entire art community on Facebook before 'de-friending' them.
Michael MacGarry's solo exhibition: THIS IS YOUR WORLD IN WHICH WE GROW, AND WE WILL GROW TO HATE YOU - at Michael Stevenson. more |
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5) SA Art Times Walkabout: Michael Smith, managing editor, Art Throb
What for you were the highlights in South African art over the past year?
I would have to say a highlight for me in Johannesburg was David Goldblatt's mini-retrospective at the Goodman Gallery: 'TJ: Some things old, some things new and some much the same'.
While Johannesburg as physical and conceptual terrain seems to lure many artists, few have the authority of an artist like Goldblatt to comment on its inequities and vicissitudes. more |
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6) Editor's Choice: Die Burger: Oë wat verby blou na goed en kwaad kyk
Deur Bettie Lambrecht
Goldblatt is aan’t skarrel tus-sen oorsigtentoonstellings; Kith, Kin & Khaya is tot Februarie te sien in die Joodse Museum in Kaapstad; in die Joodse Museum in New York is pas ’n oorsigtentoonstelling van hom afgehaal; en in Johannesburg is sy jongste werk te sien in die Goodman-galery. more |
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7) Editor's Choice: Beeld: Kapoor het groot lof vir Hlobo se kuns
Deur Laetitia Pople
Die kunstenaar Nicolas Hlobo maak so opgang in die buiteland dat “hulle maar in die ry moet staan”, skerts Michael Stevenson van die Kaapse galery in Woodstock, deur wie Hlobo verteenwoordig word. more
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8) Editor's Choice: Guardian.co.uk: Life through a lens: Ernest Cole photographs shed light on apartheid
Exhibition celebrates the work a long-neglected pioneer who captured the beauty and the ugliness of segregated South Africa. more |
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9) Editor's Choice: Mail & Guardian: Art controversies of 2010
Art controversies of 2010 by Lisa van Wyk. Jhb, SA
Arts editor Lisa van Wyk talks us through her favourite art controversies of the year.
If one thing has been proven this year, it's that art and politics do not mix. more |
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10) Press Release: 10th Anniversary of Jo’burg Bar: The Rundown, Lowdown and Comedown
With one of the city’s best collections of contemporary art and a history of film, music and art aficionados, Jo'burg Bar on Long Street
officially turns ten, with a party that is at once exhibition, reunion and celebration of a decade of good (if not clean) fun. more |
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11) Press Release: COPART: connecting our planet and re-imagining together
COP16, takes place in Cancun Mexico from 29 November to December 10 and local movement “COPART” will be running a series of parallel events in Cape Town in an effort to raise awareness of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. more |
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12) Editor's Choice:Timeslive: Level Nine
Roger Ballen's images defy easy explanation. That's deliberate, he tells Tymon Smith.
Over the 30 years that he's lived and worked in South Africa, New York-born Roger Ballen has produced a body of photographic work that has consistently challenged audiences and earned him his share of both international acclaim and opprobrium. more |
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Bumper edition: December 10 - January 2011 Art Times Out next week
Our bumper 80 page holiday edition will be out early next week. As a subscriber read the edition online
before the news hits the national news networks. Our Bumper edition includes Graduate Art Show Special/ Interviews with Brett Murray and Jugen Shadeberg / 2010 Year in Review / Art Auctions roundup/ Michael Coulson's The Final Word and much more news and listings from around a very colourful South African arts community. |
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