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FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN ART MEDIA

Malema 'okay' with monkey picture in Free State school:

Sapa: Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema is "OK" with a picture of him under one of a monkey in a Bloemfontein school classroom, according to a report on Thursday."They can do that with me, displaying me next to the monkeys, it's OK," Malema told the Sowetan. "Nothing shocks me. Our people are subjected to harsh realities of racism everyday. As for me, once you display a racist attitude, I don't waste time, I deal with it right away because I know that that is how they are brought up." The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said on More

Angola marks Venice Biennale debut with a victory

Mail & Guardian: Sean O'Toole: Angola, exhibiting for the first time at the Venice Biennale, has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for the best national pavilion.Read more

Van der Wat-werke wys plesier van kleur en vorm

Melvyn Minnaar: In Retro: Hannatjie van der Wat: Smac-galery, Stellenbosch: Die titel van hierdie aangename fees-tentoonstelling ter viering van Hannatjie van der Wat se 90ste verjaardag op 2 Julie is betekenisvoller as wat dit bloot woordspel is as naam vir ’n oorsig van haar kuns.Ook maar goed, want kunstenaarsoorsigte in Suid-Afrika is selde deeglik vakkundig geanker vir nuwe insigte. Die beskrywing “In Retro” vir dié groot uitstalling tower nostalgie op oor styl, kunsmodes en die dinamiek van 20ste-eeuse kunsstromings. More

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SPI Portrait Award

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74 Days left to get your portrait done - could win you R 100K

Sanlam Private Investments, in collaboration with Rust-en-Vrede Art Gallery, Durbanville, has initiated South Africa's first National Portrait Award. A significant single prize of R100,000 will be awarded for the best portrait. In addition to the prize, the winning portrait along with a selection of approximately 40 entrant works will be exhibited at the Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, after which the exhibition will tour to venues around South Africa in collaboration with the Sanlam Art Collection and VISI magazine. Artists are challenged to enter works which exemplify their More here

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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ART MEDIA

Stolen art haul recovered from home of V&A worker

Police find 2000 articles stolen by museum assistant over 23 years. Inside the vacuum-cleaner, hidden in the dust, were 21 sword guards and a jade figure A 58-year-old assistant at the Victoria and Albert Museum furnished his home with museum pieces over a period of 23 years, the West London magistrate (Mr J. L. Pratt) was told yesterday. The value of the articles was put at £3,500.Mr Pratt committed the assistant, John Andrew Nevin, of Nightingale Close, Chiswick, in custody to London More

Google Glass? How to Make Money From Wearable Tech

Wearable computers could one day be a vast new source of profits for tech companies. One way to invest in wearable tech now is to look to a company that makes test equipment for chips and gadgets. Barron's Jack Hough joins MoneyBeat.More

David Hockney: The Jugglers, Whitney Museum, New York – review

By Ariella Budick, ft.com:“The Jugglers, June 24, 2012”, a large, new video installation by David Hockney, is charming in a goofy sort of way. A motley company of semi-competent performers shuffles about a makeshift stage with methodical unease, their attention fixed on keeping their pins in the air and their hoops in motion. More

BUSINESS ART

SoHo Co-op Rents a Wall As Art Space

Arts Group Creates 'Reverse Graffiti' With Rented Space
By RICHARD MORGAN: Last summer, a small arts group approached the board of a co-op building at the southeast corner of West Houston and MacDougal streets with a proposition. Could the group rent wall space from the co-op for displaying a form of street art? Cassandra Giraldo for The Wall Street Journal: Chris Choi uses a power washer to clean away some paint as part of a reverse graffiti work on a West Houston Street wall. The idea was to use the space to create "reverse graffiti"—or peeling away some of the wall paint or grime to create designs by exposing .More

Wealth-X Unveils The Top Ten Billionaire Art Collectors

Francois Pinault is the top Billionaire Art Collector
PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Wealth-X, the ultra high net worth (UHNW) business development solution for Global Private Banks, Educational Institutions, Luxury Brands and Non-Profits, has released a list of the top 10 Billionaire Art Collectors. "The world's biggest billionaire art buyers have art collections worth a combined US$9.18 billion, constituting approximately 18 per cent of their net worth," Mykolas Rambus, Wealth-X CEO, said. "Of the world's 2,170 billionaires, the average holding of art is worth US$31m or 0.5 per cent of their net worth.". More

Arts hubs of the world unite

A forum launched in São Paulo will create a network of decision makers projects behind cities' cultural development projects
By Gareth Harris.: The decision makers behind established and emerging arts hubs such as the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong and the Dallas Arts District will be united by a new forum announced today, 5 June, at the New Cities Summit in São Paulo. The ambitious project, entitled the Global Cultural Districts Network, is a partnership between the summit organiser, the New Cities Foundation, the New York-based cultural consultancy More

Selected Events

Red! The Gallery - Art Auction
Thursday 20 June 2013 - Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm
Auctioneer: Phillip Powell. 60 pieces from our private & retail collection will be going under the hammer.
Artists include: Derric van Rensburg, Andrew Cooper, Michael Waters, David Kuijers, Wakaba Mutheki & many others.
Shop G9 Steenberg Village Shopping Centre, Reddam Avenue, Tokai Phone: 021 7010886 Website: www.redthegallery.co.za

Johans Borman Fine Art
Until - 12 July, ‘Allusions of Abstraction’, a selection of abstract works by SA Masters and Contemporary artists, including Walter Battiss, Pranas Domsaitis, May Hillhouse, Erik Laubscher and Douglas Portway, as well as Philip Barlow, Marlene von Dürckheim, Hussein Salim, Anton Chapman and Wehrner Lemmer. 16 Kildare Rd, Newlands, CT. T. 021 683 6863 www.johansborman.co.za

Casa Labia Gallery
Until - 21 July, ‘Portals’, by Anthea Delmotte. Walkabout (with some of the artists whose portraits are included in the show) on Sat 6 July, from 11am. Luncheon follows and will be at R90 per head. Booking essential.
Casa Labia Cultural Centre, 192 Main Rd, Muizenberg. T. 021 788 6068 www.casalabia.co.za

Pretoria Art Museum
Until 30 June, ‘!Kauru: Cultural Brokerage; Africa Imagined Act 1’, !Kauru provides a platform for African contemporary artists and cultural practitioners to showcase their art in five regions of Africa (South Gallery).
Cnr Frances Baard and Wessels Str, Arcadia Park, Arcadia, Pretoria. T.012 344 1807/8 www.pretoriaartmuseum.co.za

Kalk Bay Modern
5 – 25 June, ‘Thinking Aloud’, paintings by Clare Menck, Alene Amaler-Raviv, Giovanna Biallo and Gerald Tabatha.
1st Floor, Olympia Buildings, 136 Main Rd, Kalk Bay. T.021 788 6571 www.kalkbaymodern.com

UJ Art Gallery
5 - 26 June, ‘Behind the Ochre Curtain’, an exhibition by Craig Muller.
Cnr Kingsway & University Rd, Auckland Park, Jhb. T. 011 559 2099 www.uj.ac.za/artscentre

Absa Art Gallery
10 - 27 June, an exhibition by Collen Maswanganyi. Absa Towers North, 161 Main Str, Jhb. T. 011 350 5139 www.absa.co.za

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