‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
South African artworks on a Strauss & Co auction are set to fetch some hefty prices
In a first for South Africa, a Johannesburg museum is showing work by the pioneering woman artists
A season of auctions, exhibitions and books devoted to Irma Stern upends perceptions of her stuffy legend
A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art
Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys
The artist, who draws on varied inspirations from baking to Irma Stern, is now studying in Florence
An art expert discovered the Irma Stern painting, once sold to help fund Nelson Mandela’s legal defence, being used as a noticeboard in a London flat.
Artists Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt have staged an intervention in Irma Stern’s house that interacts directly with her art in the museum.
Four of five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum have been found on a bench in a cemetery in Port Elizabeth, police said on Tuesday.
The Democratic Alliance says the Tshwane metro had been repeatedly warned about the lack of adequate security measures at the Pretoria Art Museum.
The five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum in Arcadia included an Irma Stern, worth R9-million, and a Gerard Sekoto, worth R7-million.
Irma Stern’s painting "Arab" has been sold at an auction for R17.2-million – the second-highest price ever for a painting sold in South Africa.
Deciding what constitutes a South African heritage work of art seems to be a guessing game.
The painting, sold to Qatar in March, could find its way back to the Irma Stern Museum.
This week a decision is made about whether an important work by the late Irma Stern can leave the country in the hands of a foreign owner.
The recent theft of four works on paper by William Kentridge from the David Krut Gallery has shaken the South African art world.
It was the year South African female artists soared to bold new heights in terms of value and esteem.
A kaleidoscope of African images and themes is a fitting backdrop for the debate the Jo’burg Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday, has sparked about what it means to be…
