Johannesburg
- A painting depicting President Jacob Zuma and former president
Nelson Mandela as whites has been removed from an art exhibition
in Nelspruit, it was reported on Monday.
The art work, created by Kobus Myburgh, was in an exhibition
scheduled to open at the Van Riebeeck Hall on Monday, as part
of the local municipality's celebration of World Art Day,
Beeld reported. In the same painting, former heads of state
Hendrik Verwoerd, John Vorster, PW Botha and FW de Klerk were
shown as blacks. Source
The
art of creating a trail of images
MAIL & GUARDIAN: Matthew Krouse. Artists attempt to
understand their work by unlocking the secrets behind their
creative impulses. Source.
Mix
of old and new yields fine view
IOL:
CONVERSATIONAL: Pieter Hugos The Honourable Justice Unity
Dow lambda print photograph (I-Sang 2006/31), and right,
Sir Joshua Reynolds Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of
Eglinton oil on canvas, Sir Abe Bailey Collection (I-Sang
1659). DIALOGUES: CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ‘OLD’
AND ‘NEW’. Historical, Modern and Contemporary
works of art from the Iziko Art Collections. Curated by
Haden Proud. At Iziko National Gallery until April 12. LUCINDA
JOLLY reviews Source
FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA
Rijksmuseum
reopens with fanfare and fireworks
THE
ART NEWSPAPER: By Javier Pes. The finishing touches were being
made today, 12 April, to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum ahead of
Saturday's royal reopening. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
will lead the celebrations that are due to include a giant
key, which she will turn, and a fireworks display at noon,
after which everyone is invited to see the results of the
decade-long, €375m modernisation. The museum is due to
stay open on Saturday until midnight, and the €15 admission
fee for adults will be waived. Source
Egon
Schiele's first doomed romance is revealed by lost sketchbook
Drawings
and poems chart unrequited love of the Viennese painter who
redefined erotic art GUARDIAN (UK) Dalya Alberge. Egon Schiele
was a love-struck teenager when he drew a girl's face on the
cover of his first sketchbook. She was his first love, a "rosy,
enchanting creature", he wrote of Margarete Partonek.
He was 16 and soon to enrol for formal training, eventually
becoming one of the great artists of the 20th century, only
for his life to be tragically cut short. Source
The
tricky art of a state funeral
From
Warhol to JMW Turner, artists' depictions of public funerals
offer an illuminating perspective on Britain's pending ritual
of mourning for Margaret Thatcher. In some of his most powerful
silk-screen paintings, Andy Warhol commemorated the funeral
of John F Kennedy. The artist clipped news photographs of
the event, zooming in on a Jackie Kennedy dazed by grief.
The raw black of newsprint images contrasts starkly with Warhol's
potent painted colours to harrow the onlooker. Source
BUSINESS
ART
5
No-Nonsense Tips for Reading About the Art Market
ART
INFO: A lot of what gets written about the art market is
crap. It isn't necessarily meant to be so, but the whole
thing is set up so that it's all but inevitable that it
turns out that way. In the notoriously secretive art trade,
the person who has the right information at the right time,
and is willing to use it, usually goes home the richest
(hi, Larry). Consequently, it's in the interest of everybody
to tell everyone else that "everything is going great"
and nothing more. Thus, almost every dealer who can afford
it employ public relations firms. The big auction houses
both have full teams of in-house PR. Source
The
Hour That Will Change Your Life: Six Things Artists Should
Do for 10 Minutes a Day
HUFFINGTON
POST: Hilary Harkness: Every artist struggles with productivity
-- how can you create more work, and how do you know where
you should be spending your time? I recently spoke with
Dorie Clark, strategy consultant and author of the new Harvard
Business Review Press book Reinventing You: Define Your
Brand, Imagine Your Future, who writes about how professionals
can take control of their brand -- and their time. Here's
a transcript of our conversation.HH: The average artist
is working alone every day, on long-term projects that are
often amorphous. I Source
'Art
is the best route to recovery', says former prisoner with
royal award
GUARDIAN
(UK).Steven Ellis, whose peer-mentoring support for prisoners
with drug problems was commended by the Butler Trust, is
an example of how intervention can break the cycle of reoffending Source
Strauss
& Co. – Johannesburg
Sale : South African Art
Date : 20 May 2013
Venue : Wanderer’s Club, Illovo, Johannesburg
Website : www.straussart.co.za
Provenance
Auction
24th April 2013
Viewing: 17th,18th,19th 09:00 - 16:00
20th April 09:00 - 13:00
Walkabout with the specialist - 11:00
22,23,24 April 09:00 - 16:00
Venue : 6–8 Vrede Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8001
Website : www.provenanceart.co.za
Artist
Birthdays
16
April : Ford Madox Brown
Happy
Birthday to English painter, born at Calais on the 16th of April
1821."Job on the Ash-heap"; the first exhibited work in
London (at the Royal Academy, 1840), "The Giaours Confession",
from Lord Byron's poem. Read
more here
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