Art exhibitions in Johannesburg provide viewers with culturally diverse experiences and enlightening South African journeys
Prints, posters and postcards I can’t afford the artworks I love, so I am a serious cheat – if I can’t buy an original print I frame posters, calendar images and even postcards!! And that is what I have done with Sue Williamson’s A Few South Africans 1983-85 series. Along with the huge installation, Williamson […]
Read More »Along with pop-up shops it’s become popular to have a special event on a particular day of each month making it easy to forward plan one’s calendar. Now that 2018 is in full swing, here’s a list of events to diarize. Thursdays First Thursdays Let’s start with Thursday as First Thursdays have become a […]
Read More »Johannesburg Heritage walking tour: Victoria Yards I’m so pleased I followed my own advice. My Pick of the Week for the 4th February was a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of Victoria Yards on Saturday 11th February and I wasn’t disappointed. Brian Green, of 44 Stanley fame, and the mover and shaker behind Victoria Yards, took […]
Read More »Do all great projects have such humble beginnnings? I’m an artist, and Pablo is my dog. He’s the reason I started exploring The Wilds – I live nearby and he likes walking there. And so it came to pass that James Delaney became a champion of cleaning up the overgrown Wilds and restoring it to […]
Read More »Meyina El Anatsui’s exhibition at Goodman Gallery until 20th December Do yourselves a favour and make sure that you visit the Goodman Gallery in Rosebank before El Anatsui’s exhibition comes down on 2oth December. El Anatsui, who is Ghanaian by birth but has lived in Nigeria since 1975, is one of Africa’s most influential contemporary artists. […]
Read More »There is so much happening in Jozi during this week and over this week-end, that it’s hard to make choices and know how to fit it all in. Sillage at POPArt Maboneng An intriguing play about women told by a woman has the evocative title Sillage. Sillage is a French word used in perfumery to […]
Read More »A friend phoned me a couple of days ago to ask if I was OK. I said that I’d had a bit of a rough couple of weeks but that I was fine. ‘Why? ‘ I asked. She said: ‘You have been completely silent on social media’. Now I am not sure what that says […]
Read More »Another addition to Liz at Lancaster’s art collection The Turbine Art Fair turned out to be more expensive than just a cup of coffee and meal at the outdoor cafe. I couldn’t resist a small scale work from Hannelie Coetzee’s enigmatic African Migratory Locust series. The work comprises the trace of a real locust – […]
Read More »From Joburg CBD, to the birth of humankind to Sandton glass status symbols – they saw it all Liz at Lancaster was delighted to host a wonderful couple from San Francisco in the States recently. It was their first time to South Africa, in fact to Africa and they were up for everything. Although they […]
Read More »Great opportunity to make your own artwork with artist Bronwen Findlay and Artist Proof Studio at Wits Art Museum A fabulous fun opportunity to make your own screenprint at a workshop at Wits Art Museum this Saturday 12th August at 12pm. And of course surrounding you will be some 80 works by that Master of […]
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