CORRIGALL: One Sunday, during the popular Arts On Main market at Maboneng, some visitors wandered into Goethe-on-Main looking for food. This wasn’t altogether surprising. With a large cardboard handwritten sign hanging at the entrance boasting the show’s title, Things are Odd, it appeared like a makeshift shop – an extension of the market. In a way, Christian Nerf was delighted that this misinterpretation occurred; he revels in rewriting Source

By Helen Herimbi. On the eve of the festival’s 40th anniversary,” smiles National Arts Festival director Ismail Mahomed, “we’re doing all the things that someone who was about to turn 40 would do.“So we’re trimming the waistline a little bit because of the broader arts funding issues across the country. We’re running slower and we’re keeping a lover that’s 30 years old. As you know, the Standard Bank Awards are 30 years old next year.” Source

By Elizabeth Fortescue.A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realised, a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding death and physical remains.Originally conceived by Baldessari in Source

by Yasmine Mohseni.In recent years, Los Angeles has received increased international attention as an important new center for contemporary art. In fact, the idea that L.A. art is the next great frontier has been repeated so many times that today it’s almost a cliché. The real question should be, in the face of all this buzz, what still holds it back? Source

By Gareth Harris. Qatar reportedly buys Picasso’s Child with a Dove. The small, oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar has made another major modern art purchase. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the Middle Eastern state has acquired Picasso’s Child with a Dove for £50m, a work that until last year had been in a UK collection since 1924. A spokeswoman for the Qatar Museums Authority says she cannot “confirm nor deny [the acquisition]; QMA does not comment on acquisitions”. Source