In the beginning it was more than a little strange seeing primary school children – all still in uniforms, but all from different schools – wandering around the Johannesburg Art Gallery. By choice it seemed. I later learned that they were all here for art classes. These art classes which are sponsored by MTN [...]

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Us considers the substance of any instance were we name ourselves an Us, whether according to nation, culture, class, gender, sexuality or race. The show will be curated by Bettina Malcomess and Simon Njami and contains work by both local and international artists. The substence of any Us is not fixed, rather constantly shifting, fluid and [...]

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For the few readers out there who actually read this manifesto (I mean column) & were wondering what had happened to the Saturday classes and these zany projects, the answers will now follow: Like any self-respecting revolution, the Saturday Art Class had to, as they say in the movies, “go underground.” During our little black out, [...]

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The latest forthcoming exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) is made possible by The Roger Ballen Foundation. The exhibits include Vik Muniz’s “Remastered” and Stephen Shore’s “American Surfaces”. Both exhibitions will showcase works of iconic photography. These exhibits will both open simultaneously on Sunday 26 July and will run until Sunday 1 November. Also opening [...]

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  Unlike the ‘friends’ on networks such as Facebook and Twitter, the Friends of the JAG (Johannesburg Art Gallery) are actually made up of real people who do real activities like breathing, eating and going on walks. All jokes aside though The Friends of JAG are a group of dedicated art-lovers from all walks of life [...]

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Whilst ‘normal people’ were at home doing whatever it is that normal people do on a Saturday, the first of the group of sleep and heat deprived art-lovers who visit the gallery on Saturdays in search of - shall we call it “Artology” – shuffle into the David Krut Bookstore. I noticed the growth of the [...]

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Antoinette Murdoch. The name might be unfamiliar to some patrons of JAG (the Johannesburg Art Gallery), but this I believe is changing fast. The name in question belongs to the gallery’s newly appointed chief  curator, who arrives fresh from a successful three-year stint as CDO of the Johannesburg Art Bank. An accomplished artist, gallery manager [...]

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The now detonked T.A.E.P. (Taxi Arts Education Programme) was an initiative aimed at enriching those youth communities unable part take in art (be the art form dance, drama, music or visual art). The programme which was founded by David Krut Publishing now finds itself bearing fruit beyond the bounds of the T.A.E.P. initiative. The fruit [...]

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Come 10:05AM on a Saturday morning the doors of the Johannesburg Art Gallery greet the first few heat deprived bodies that make their way into the David Krut Bookstore, the same way they did the week before and the week before that. The first class lasts about an hour and a half; this is the [...]

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In the newly opened exhibition in JAG’s Nando’s project Room, audiences are introduced to the sensual, ambiguous, slightly androgynous and faintly unsettling works of bondage in Musha Nelvheni’s exhibition entitled Vantage. At first glance Neluheni’s photographs appear to be oddly comforting in their familiarity. Once one steps into the space, however, it is close to [...]

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