Rock Art
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Copies of rock art treasure trove a homage to magnificence
Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will this rock art collection be taken out of storage for South Africans to see? This is the final…
Human history on the verge of being wiped out by climate change
Cave drawings dating back more than 45 000 years are slowly eroding as temperatures and humidity fluctuate
Walter Battiss: Back to the past for the future
Restoring Walter Battiss’s work will give us clues to our intriguing history and how we all connect.
Google snaps up SA art for ‘street’ viewing
South African artwork has been added to Google’s pioneering Art Project, which makes galleries explorable online with its trademark Street View.
Faithful to its origins
Stephen Townley Basset’s life pursuit is to reproduce the technical complexity of San rock art, writes Percy Zvomuya.
On the trail of the quagga and the |Xam
Kevin Davie goes in search of Bushmen paintings in the Eastern Cape and wonders what happened to the people who made them.