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UK artist exhibits in city  Comment
A solo exhibition by UK-based artist-activist Sandira Reddy, entitled All Shades of Brown, opened at artSPACE last night.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Gallery guide - August 13, 2010
Gallery guide - August 13, 2010[Full Story...]

Museum trying to save Gone With the Wind gowns  Comment
Tomorrow has become another day for some of the extravagant dresses worn by Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind as a US museum seeks funds to restore gowns from the Oscar-winning 1939 movie.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Art dealer gets six years prison for fraud  Comment
A New York art dealer who duped collectors including tennis star John McEnroe and actor Robert De Niro out of more than $100-million was sentenced to at least six years in prison.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Joburg gallery guide - July 30, 2010
Joburg gallery guide - July 30, 2010[Full Story...]

Disputed Caravaggio painting unveiled  Comment
Art officials have unveiled the painting at the centre of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Controversial artist receives death threats
Come and find me and I'll deal with you, says Mandela autopsy painter.[Full Story...]

Joburg gallery guide - July 16, 2010
Joburg gallery guide - July 16, 2010[Full Story...]

Da Vinci restoration reveals hidden details  Comment
An 18-month project to restore Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin Of The Rocks revealed the Renaissance artist likely painted the entire work himself rather than, as previously thought, with the help of his assistants.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Needed: warm hearts, paint donations  Comment
KZN artist Charmaine Eastment is donating 10 percent of all sales of her paintings, sold at Crouse Art Gallery during July and August, to Thokomala Children's Home.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

[VIDEO] Mandela corpse painting is insulting - ANC  Comment
An outraged African National Congress has condemned a painting in which Nelson Mandela is shown as a corpse undergoing an autopsy - and also launched an attack on a newspaper which carried the painting.[Full Story...] 24 Comments

Turner fetches record price at London auction  Comment
A work by British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner fetched a new record price at a London auction, selling for more than $45-million.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Exploring real-life stories of love and sex  Comment
The University of the Witwatersrand's Drama for Life training and development programme, which was initiated by the Dramatic Arts Division, is attempting to use the performing and visual arts as the vehicle of exchange to allow real-life stories to be told.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Gallery appeal for first UK portrait of freed slave  Comment
The National Portrait Gallery in London has launched an appeal to raise about R1.2-million to complete the purchase of the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Durban gallery guide - July 02, 2010
Durban gallery guide - July 02, 2010[Full Story...]

Joburg gallery guide - July 02, 2010
Joburg gallery guide - July 02, 2010[Full Story...]

Nervous artist Marilyn Manson  Comment
Marilyn Manson finds exhibiting his paintings more frightening than performing on stage.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Corporate art rendered in 'pen and flame'  Comment
Hosea Matlou moved to Pretoria from Ga-Mokgopo in Polokwane in 2000 to pursue a degree in finance and accounting.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Picasso's Blue Period work sells for $25m  Comment
Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," a work from the painter's "blue period," has sold for about R400-million at a London auction.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

Jackson 5 immortalised in Motown museum  Comment
A Jackson 5 exhibit has opened at the Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, marking the one-year anniversary this week of Michael Jackson's death.[Full Story...] 0 Comments

 REVIEWS
Corporate art rendered in 'pen and flame'
Ancient art on view after old-school stint
Glimpse behind the veil of love
Apart from hype, is it interesting?
Multicultural creativity impresses in Tshwane
Haunting images hold up mirror to society
Arts fest: Hooray for change
Social conscience shines through the colours
The elusive dream
Vital energy in flamboyant display
Is 'funny art' good art?
Thami's art of resistance
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