Last week of UNMASKED: What lies beneath the surface of things.
UNMASKED: EXHIBITION IN CHELSEA CELEBRATING AXIS GALLERY 20 YEAR OF SHOWING AFRICAN ART Seminal Cape Town artist, Sue Williamson’s photographic installation, Joyce Seipei – as a mother- Winnie Madikiza Mandela, 1988 at Axis Gallery which addresses the South Africa Truth And Reconciliation hearings is so timely. While it relates to the court appearance of Winnie Mandela […]
Contemporary African Art in the streets of New York during Performa 2017 week
SOUTH AFRICAN ART IN NEW YORK With Performa 2017 with its focus on South Africa in full swing in New York City this week there is much African art to see and not to miss. No need here to pay for a 14 hours plane fare to Joburg to discover the works of some of […]
South African artist Zanele Muholi at Les Rencontres de la Photographie at Arles
I love that even though I now spend my summers in Provence in an adorable house in the foothills of the Luberon I don’t have far to go to see good African art. The Photography Festival at Arles – Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles – is an hour away and this year South […]
South African Wim Botha at The Foundation Blachere in Apt, France
Wim Botha’s fragmentary spectacle: An engrossing juxtaposition of materials. From my summer house in the Luberon in Provence, South of France it takes me barely 20 minutes to get to the Fondation Blachere in Apt, which is devoted to fostering contemporary creativity in Africa and to promoting its artists. Situated in the industrial suburb […]
South African artist, Robin Rhode at the Drawing Center
Drawing Waves The Drawing Center in Soho, New York is showing Robin Rhode new photographic sequence entitled, Breaking Waves, 2014-15, which whimsically depicts a young boy surfing in the sea.
1:54 African Art Fair in London is spreading its wings.
LONDON WELCOMES AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART. This October was the second year that African art was making a showing in London during Frieze week and it was doubling in size! Named 1:54; 1 for one continent, 54 for 54 countries, the title was a reminder that Africa is not one country but a multitude of countries […]
The Joburg Art Fair 2014
The Getty Museum under Diane Frankel’s lead discovers African art and photography in Joburg. We landed in Joburg at the crack of dawn after a 15 hours flight, which while long was stress free! Listening to some of the other people we met up with at Joburg who had taken at least 24 hours to […]
Artists Nandipha Mntambo and Mohau Modisakeng visit San Francisco
South African artists meet the San Francisco art community. Diane and I were sitting in the cafeteria of the San Francisco Art Institute waiting for Nandipha Mntambo and Mohau Modisakeng. They were both critiquing the photographic works of a few students. Nandipha walked in, tall, elegant and stylish, wearing a bright yellow stole around her […]
The Lalela Project and Robin Rhode in Cape Town
The communal power of wall drawing: Robin Rhode engages the local children in a site-specific intervention I live in a city, New York, where art is too often discussed as a commodity. It saddens me because I have had the most moving experiences and insights into the human mind and spirit in front of paintings. […]
At BAM: THE SUIT, a play based on a story by South African Can Themba
A fresh twist to the revenge of a betrayed husband during the days of Apartheid My focus on creativity in Africa and the positive reviews of the play The Suit based on the short story by South African writer, Can Themba, made me overcome my reluctance to see yet again a story about a wife’s […]
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