This Week's Top Local News Stories |
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-1) April's Edition of SA Art Times now available
Wilhelm van Rensburg: “I have lived a whole other lifetime since last speaking to you” was the way Esmé Berman, grand dame of South African art greeted me when I rang to arrange an interview. more |
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-2) SA art breaks new record (Timeslive)
Recently, four new records for South African artists Irma Stern, Alexis Preller, Gerard Sekoto and Francois Krige were reached at a Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers art sale in London. more |
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-3) New York’s Raging South African Art (Mahala)
New York Comedian Stephen Colbert’s recent skit “raging art on” in which he sends up the art world and quizzes art expert and auctioneer Simon de Pury about the number of things that look like vaginas in art, which according to Stephen, are everywhere. more |
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4) South African short films hit the big time (Southafricaninfo.com)
Three South African short films have been selected for the prestigious Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, or Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, to be held in May in the river city of that name in the Ruhr region of Germany. more |
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5) The Cultural Weapon: Are artists part of “the problem”? (Mike van Graan) more
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This Week's Top International News Stories |
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-1) China artist’s detention tests depth of crackdown (Reuters)
China’s detention of internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei has sparked a petition urging his release, exposing alarm among the nation’s liberal intellectuals who see his case as a test of how far a crackdown to stifle dissent could reach. more |
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-2) Claudette goes closer to stardom with her Close, close at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY
Close, Close' continues the couple’s story by delving into the complexities of family life. Schreuders calls upon family photographs and literature as source material, exploring her personal experience as a white descendent of colonial settlers in Apartheid-era South Africa. more |
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3) Our history, from afar (M &G)
SA Print Show at Momo, NY. It's supposed to be springtime in New York City, but the weather reports "a wintry mix", which means that in the half-hour it took to get from downtown Soho to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) uptown, it hailed, snowed and rained. more |
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SA Art Gallery Highlights |
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The Epic of Everlasting by Cecil Skotnes. Travelling Exhibition
Until 13 Jan 2012: KWV presents "The Epic of Everlasting" by Cecil Skotnes, a national travelling exhibition of artworks by Cecil Skotnes from the KWV art collection. more
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Navigators of the Cosmos by Raimondo Galeano. CIRCA on Jellicoe
Opening 05 May: The Bolognese artist’s exhibition will be curated by the Italian art dealer, Martina Venturi.. more
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Becoming-Animal by Donna Kukama. Goethe-Institut, Jhb
Until 20 May: This exhibition presents selected performances, videos, and works-in-progress by Donna Kukama .. more
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Icon Iconoclast by Beezy Bailey. Everard Read Gallery, Jhb
Opening 05 May: Inspired by Andy Warhol's silkscreen images of icons such as Marylin Monroe, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong .. more
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Inspiration, a group show. Durban Art Gallery
Until 16 April : A group of KwaZulu-Natal-based artists met on December 9th at the Durban Art Gallery ... more |
Elgin Rust, Dillon Marsh and Cinga Samson. Ava Gallery, CT
Opening 18 April: Three exhibition openings.. more
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Art Opportunities (Local-SA) For more Art Opps click here |
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1) Calling Africa's Artists : Africa Centre launches Artist in Residency programme (AIR)
Application Deadline 1 June 2011 more |
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| 2) Sasol New Signatures Art Competition more |
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3) Bag Factory announces The Reinhold Cassirer Award
The Bag Factory would like to announce the Reinhold Cassirer award, funded by Nadine Gordimer. more |
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4) PPC Cement Young Concrete Sculptor Awards
Deadline for submissions 29 September 2011 more |
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5) Call for nominations: The Inyathelo Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
The Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards were established in 2007 to acknowledge, celebrate and profile the full spectrum of diversity in South African philanthropic giving. more |
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Art Opportunities (International) For more Art Opps click here |
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1) The 31st global "SketchCrawl" 16 April 2011
A worldwide, day-long drawing binge that takes place four times a year in more than 90 locations more |
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2) The 15th Annual "No Dead Artists" juried exhibition
Deadline for submission 15 June 2011. more |
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3) Celeste Prize 2011, 3rd edition: Entries deadline, midnight Sunday 31 July 2011
The art competition is open to any person practicing art either as a professional artist in full-time or part-time, student artist or self-taught artist from anywhere in the world. more |
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4) 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture Melbourne 2011 (03-06 October 2011)
The Summit will bring together government and cultural leaders from over 80 countries to explore how artists can give voice to diverse communities and concerns through collaborations with experts in health and well-being, the environment, education, business, new technologies, cultural identity and more. more |
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| 5) Designboom architecture editorial internship more |
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SA Art Hot highlights |
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1) ABSA KKNK Arts Festival, includes The Art Quarter and Fringe Art events. 02-09 April 2011 more |
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2) All originals: I Art S.A community mural project curated by /A WORD OF ART. Until April 21 at 4:00pm.
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3) Bernardi Auction 11 April more |
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4) Russell Kaplan Auction 16 April more |
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5) Stephan Welz & Co Auction, Jhb Tuesday 19 April, 2011 until Wednesday 20 April, 2011 more |
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6) Strauss & Co Auction, Jhb Monday 16 May 2011more |
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