The vibrancy of the arts
Tammy Greer is a writer and Creative Feel’s recently appointed Editor. Welcome to our July issue! It’s hard to believe that we are already entering the second half of 2019.
What to expect at RMB Turbine Art Fair 2019
RMB Turbine Art Fair (RMB TAF) is a unique South African art collaboration that brings together galleries and artists from around the country to present and sell works. The event
The art of staying still
Creativity @ Work is a monthly column written by Dave Mann, an editor and award-winning arts journalist. Jake Singer is always busy with something. When the Johannesburg-based sculptor and multimedia artist’s not
Thomarts Gallery is at RMB Turbine Art Fair 2019
Intimations and Arrangements is a fresh, furious, innovative, pulsating and thought-provoking new body of work that Thomarts Gallery, an artist-owned studio-cum-art gallery, will be exhibiting at RMB Turbine Art Fair
The vibrancy of colour
Olivié Keck’s vibrant artworks are as appealing to the eye as they are thought-provoking. Her most recent exhibition, Drop Dead Gorgeous, was accompanied by the Virtual Reality experience Ophelia Forever.
A Meeting of Minds: Louis Maqhubela and Douglas Portway
Strauss & Co is proud to present the third in a series of museum-quality exhibitions (Anton Taljaard: Pierneef, A Collector’s Passion (2017) and Life Force: The Still Lifes of Irma
Art as a reflection of the times
Despite the turmoil that South Africa seems to constantly be in, our art and our artists are world-class and thriving. The excellence of the visual arts in our lovely country
The interdisciplinary language of Heidi Sincuba
Creativity @ Work is a monthly column written by Dave Mann, an editor and award-winning arts journalist. ‘Arriving in the Netherlands was shocking. Because I realised immediately, something I oddly enough
Creative highways and digital byways
Business & Arts is a monthly column by Ashraf Johaardien, an award-winning playwright, performer and producer. He is the CEO of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA), and a PhD candidate
Questioning history and heritage through notions of the other
An in-depth exploration of a sense of otherness – identified through multiple and differing perspectives on history and heritage – sets the tone of Absa Gallery’s Our contemporary needs and
South African Pavilion Opens at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
The intimate official opening of the South African Pavilion, supported by the Department of Arts and Culture, at the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia brought the
Norval Foundation to host first survey of William Kentridge’s Sculptures
Norval Foundation will present the first survey of internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge’s sculptural practice, entitled Why Should I Hesitate? Sculpture, opening in Cape Town in August 2019. In Why
RMB showcases Edoardo Villa’s monumental Confrontation
Just before Youth Day this year, RMB’s Think Precinct in Sandton welcomed Edoardo Villa’s thought-provoking landmark sculpture Confrontation (1978), a fitting tribute to South Africa’s history and future and one
20 Years of MTN’s support for arts and culture development
Since 1998, MTN has been one of the country’s most prominent supporters of the development of arts and culture in South Africa, with a particular focus on arts education. MTN’s
RMB Turbine Art Fair 2019
The seventh edition of the RMB Turbine Art Fair (RMB TAF) is coming up next month, and will be the most substantial Fair yet. Since its inception in 2013, RMB
Lady Skollie joins June’s Keyes Thursdays
Hot on the heels of last week’s blazing opening of Good and Evil at CIRCA Gallery, Lady Skollie will be joining the like-minded art and music loving community that will
Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa Print Retrospective
The upcoming Wits Art Museum (WAM) exhibition Leeto: A Sam Nhlengethwa Print Retrospective surveys the print work of renowned artist Sam Nhlengethwa from 1978 to 2018. Leeto is a seTswana/seSotho
Strauss & Co’s ‘Saturday Live’ – An important new addition to the SA auction calendar
Strauss & Co, South Africa’s premier art auction house, is pleased to announce Saturday Live, the first-ever live auction to be held at the company’s newly expanded premises in Houghton,
Pop icons, paraphernalia and shifting paradigms
Business & Arts is a monthly column by Ashraf Johaardien, an award-winning playwright, producer and arts manager. He took up the role of CEO at Business and Arts South Africa
Historical artists prove their staying power at Strauss & Co auction
World record for Anton van Wouw World record for a still life by Irma Stern World record for a tapestry by Athi-Patra Ruga Two pioneering artists, Irma Stern and Anton
Winner of Sasol New Signatures 2018 encourages emerging artists to enter life-changing competition
Sasol New Signatures Art Competition is the longest running competition of its kind in South Africa and has over the years provided a platform for unknown artists to break into
South African Pavilion opens at the 58th Venice Biennale
The intimate official opening launch of the South African Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia brought local and international art fraternity under one roof on
Strauss & Co sale casts a spotlight on pioneers of South African painting
Two triumphant still lifes by Irma Stern lead a strong selection of paintings by important post-war artists Walter Battiss, Christo Coetzee, Erik Laubscher and Alexis Preller on offer at Strauss
21 Years of Curating the Cube at UJ
It is a beautifully warm autumn afternoon when we meet Annali Cabano-Dempsey, curator of the UJ Art Gallery. As always, the University of Johannesburg’s Art Centre is busy with students, but Cabano-Dempsey
Sustaining a growing creative culture with the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition
The development of South African art and its artists owes a great deal to the longstanding presence of its nationwide art competitions. Competitions for emerging and established artists help the
South Africa gets ready for the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Strength and resilience will come into sharp view when critically acclaimed collective of curators, Nkule Mabaso and Nomusa Makhubu rise alongside a three-member team of visual artists, Dineo Seshee Bopape,