Earlier this year, while I was in Cape Town, I interviewed Emma Bedford, a specialist in painting, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture at Strauss and Co., fine art auctioneers based in Cape Town. I asked her about what sort of artwork investors were interested in buying, and what these purchases indicated about South Africa’s vision […]
‘Contemporary South African Photography’
April 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
A short video profile of the Johannesburg photographer, Sabelo Mlangeni, one of 17 South African photographers in “Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography“, showing from 12 April through 17 July this year at the Victoria and Alfred Museum’s Porter Gallery in London. It features work by photographers living and working in South Africa now. […]
Zwelethu Mthethwa @ The Studio Museum
July 13, 2010 By 3 Comments
Via Todd Johnson: Opening on Thursday, July 15, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, some new work by South African photographer, Zwelethu Mthethwa. (For the opening night, Mthethwa will be present for a conversation with curator Naomi Beckwith. It’s free, but you got to RSVP.) The works are on display till October 24. Here’s the […]
Dazed & Confused on ‘new South African culture’
May 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
The June issue of culture magazine, Dazed & Confused, will a 32-page section on “new South African youth culture” (I want to see what’s in it, although as a I note below, I may be disappointed). The artist Zwelethu Mthethwa (he has a new monograph published by Aperture) contributes the issue’s “Last Shot.” Dazed Digital […]
