Charl Blignaut: The news of artist Zwelethu Mthethwa’s arrest for murder has left his gallerist reeling. “I am most shocked by the news – and I am not often a person who has the wind taken out of my sails,” said Mark Read, director of the Everard Read Gallery, who represents Mthethwa in Johannesburg.Die Burger on Saturday reported that 52-year-old Mthethwa was captured on CCTV on April 13 this year getting out of his car in a street in Woodstock, Cape Town, approaching a woman – possibly a sex worker – and hitting her repeatedly. More

Die Switserse kontemporêre performance-kunstenaar Yann Marussich sal volgende maand met verskeie stukke in Kaapstad en Johannesburg optree, asook by die Nasionale Kunstefees (27 Junie tot 3 Julie) in Grahamstad.Marussich, wat sy werke Bleu Remix, Bain Brisé en Hyphos hier sal kom uitvoer, is in 2008 met die Ars Electronica-prys vereer. Marussich betrek ook plaaslike kunstenaars by sy optredes, en in Suid-Afrika sal hy in Bleu Remix saamwerk met onder andere James Webb, ’n plaaslike klankkunstenaar en eksperimentele musikant.More

My Joburg, ’n uitstalling van werk deur Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars “wat tot ’n groot mate nog nie die aandag van die Franse publiek getrek het nie”, word van 20 Junie tot 22 September in Parys, Frankryk, gehou.Dié uitstalling is deel van die Frans-Suid-Afrikaanse seisoen wat tot Desember in verskeie Franse stede duur.Die uitstalling in Maison Rouge in die hartjie van Parys is deel van dié galery se program om kuns uit wêreldstede wat nié hoofstede is nie, te vertoon.Die vorige . More

MICHAEL GLOVER: There is no end to our fascination with self-scrutiny, the human quizzing the human: the full-length figure; the head and shoulders; the face alone. The posings, the slight awkwardnesses, the vainly glamorous flourishes. How the body defines the space that it occupies, with that almost inevitable drift of attention towards the face. Yes, our attention always tends to pivot about the face, and within the face, the eyes...More

As long as the Biennale continues, Venice remains at the centre of the art world. Joining artists and collectors alike, Giovanna Bertazzoni explores this year's best exhibitions and most glamorous parties.By Giovanna Bertazzoni: Every two years, Venice becomes the most international, global and effervescent meeting point for the art world, when the eponymous biennial exhibition of contemporary art opens its doors to the world. It is an unmissable rendez-vous for art critics, art lovers, art professionals, collectors, journalists, and a whole glamorous crowd of art More

By Belinda Luscombe: For a guy who has made dozens of artists famous, including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, Charles Saatchi is quite reclusive. This is usually a shrewd business move in the art market; talking too much can detract from the mystique of the work or the artist. But it’s a definite minus for a husband who is photographed with his hands at his wife’s throat, especially if that wife is famous. In a series of photographs splashed all over the English speaking world via the Sunday Mirror, Saatchi and. More