Art exhibitions in Johannesburg provide viewers with culturally diverse experiences and enlightening South African journeys
Artists’ Proof Studios: entry level art buying Entry level housing, entry level cars and now the art market is talking of entry level art buying. Some of the people who have started at Artist’s Proof Studios in Fordsburg are already making it big in the art world but there is the opportunity of buying their works […]
Read More »Joburg Walking Tours becoming ever more popular Mainstreetwalks launches 17 September 2011 with Art and Justice Tour 18 September – Public Art walk with Guest Artist Marcus Neustetter . Mainstreetwalks is a concept that encourages people to rediscover the inner City and ultimately Johannesburg. The best way to explore these spaces, like any other city […]
Read More »Lots on this week-end There’s a walkabout of the group exhibition Horse, curated by Ricky Burnett, at Everard Read Gallery in Lower Rosebank at 4.30 pm Friday 16th September Another walkabout of Ayana V Jackson’s exhibition at Gallery Momo 52 7th Ave Parktown North on Saturday 17th Sept at 11 am. There are markets in […]
Read More »Programme for William Kentridge’s Refuse the Hour Refuse the Hour is a two week programme of live performance events created by artist William Kentridge. As always he collaborates with a team: composers Philip Miller and François Sarhan dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo video editor Catherine Meyburgh performance director Sue Pam-Grant. The programme, which is presented […]
Read More »Willem Boshoff’s Exhibition SWAT at Goodman Gallery The ambiguities of words, playful provocation and grave disquiet are ubiquitous elements in the work of Willem Boshoff. In SWAT, a new exhibition at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, Boshoff reignites these components in a series of unique works that confront capitalism, religious text, exploitation, globalisation and imperialism, amongst other […]
Read More »One day’s cultural itinerary in Joburg – 12 hours non-stop! If you can face the freezing weather you can have yourself a cultural feast day on Saturday 30th July. 10 am: Catch Phillemon Hlungwane’s walkabout of his exhibition at Everard Read Gallery Rosebank (Jellicoe Ave) Now for your 11 o’clock fill ….. which will you […]
Read More »A photographic feast in Joburg For anybody interested in photography there is currently quite a feast at Joburg’s art galleries : Starting in the south east of Joburg Central at Main Street Life Entrance Gallery is an exhibition of the photographic works of Dan Rosenthal and Andrew Sprawson opening 30 July . For more information: www.hiddengallery.org Gary […]
Read More »Hugo and Cleary won the non-EU section of the music video category with their black-and-white video for Mathambo’s electronic cover version of Joy Division’s ‘She’s Lost Control’. Well worth watching see http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-24-pieter-hugo-wins-young-director-award-at-cannes/ by
Read More »Senzeni Marasela’s exhibition Sarah, Theodorah and Senzeni in Johannesburg Senzeni Marasela’s exhibition Sarah, Theodorah and Senzeni in Johannesburg comprises a new series of embroidered cloths and red ink drawings. The three women alluded to in the title of the exhibition refer to: Sarah Baartman (the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’) Theodorah (Marasela’s mother who suffers from bipolar schizophrenia and who has largely […]
Read More »Maboneng Precinct continues to expand In 2008 Managing Diretctor and developer Jonathan Liebmann purchased the old DF Corlett Construction offices and warehouses and worked with architect Enrico Daffonchio on converting them into the space that is now Arts on Main – a mix of galleries, [Goodman Gallery, David Krut, Seipel, Goethe Institut] private artist studios, […]
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