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/ 30 November 2010
A round-up of the year’s most controversial art stories, including unfinished elephants and the lesbians loathed by Lulu.
At the end of a long, hot valley somewhere inland from Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast, one can find vines that are among the oldest in the country.
In a quiet moment it’s not hard to imagine the despair of slaves who once laboured at Robben Island.
Art critics, even occasional art critics like myself, are never allowed to utter the words: "I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like."
Percy Zvomuya checks out artist and former curator Thembinkosi Goniwe’s impressive collection of art at his home in Orange Grove.
We swung through the <em>M&G</em> newsroom to see who owns what and discovered that, if combined, our staff could hold a respectable exhibition.
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/ 5 February 2010
Ricky Burnett pays tribute to an artist whose life exemplified the energy in his creations
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/ 21 January 2010
Our top art and entertainment picks for this week and beyond
The buzz around the 2010 World Cup has made its way into art.
Jeremy Kuper speaks to Edward Glennon, life partner of the late Albert Adams, about the artist’s conflicted feelings for the land of his birth.
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/ 12 February 2009
The auction of Brett Kebble’s collection could fetch R100-million, writes Anthea Buys.
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/ 16 January 2009
In a project started late last year Iraqi artists are taking objects that have brought devastation to Iraq and using them to create instead.
Naoshima was once just another volcanic island dotted in the calm, blue waters of Japan, but it achieved star status late last century.
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/ 23 October 2008
One of the most surprising developments of 2008 is Monkey: Journey to the West, an opera based on a 16th-century Chinese fable.
Artist Gerhard Marx has won his battle against BMW SA over the company’s use, in an advertising campaign, of road-map fragments pioneered in his work.
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/ 10 September 2008
A Pierneef painting set a new record price for SA art at an auction in London when it sold for more than R11-million, the auctioneers said.
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/ 10 September 2008
Unlike other hobbies, collecting art can create a long-term asset base of great value.
Athens’s new museum is spectacular, even without its star exhibits. Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview.
Imagine being a leader in your field for more than 60 years. Imagine exchanging ideas with the artistic greats of the past half-century.