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I love Marlene Duma's paintings. Since the first time I saw her paintings, I've been addicted and can't let go. I've written about her on my blog long tail keyword research. I [...]
marthakarua
Love her or hate her - I don't agree with the 'exploiting her subjects' comments and I feel that since her raise to fame in the 90's her work has only got better. I recently saw [...]
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Amazing write-up , one has to love Germaine Greer - she tells it like it is . May Marlene Dumas not regret biting the hand of her most loyal fan . Droit-de-suite should most definitely be revised so [...]
fredeb

Cobus van Bosch writes about the experience of participating in this exhibition on Afrikaans identity 

The word "Afrikaner" as a signifier of identity is a loaded term in South Africa. Burdened with the added weight of apartheid guilt, it can be a conversation killer. It was therefore significant that the exhibition Ik ben een Afrikaner – in which ten artists expressed their [...]
cobus van bosch
The Guardian,

Friday 22 October 2010 Barcode Shark, a Banksy canvas of a barcode in the shape of a shark, attracted the highest bid of £30,000 at an auction of contemporary art in Bloomsbury in London last night which raised £200,000 in sales, slightly below estimate.  

A Damien Hirst doodle of three friends who mistook the artist for the then Chelsea footballer Dennis [...]
David Batty
guardian.co.uk,

Sunday 22 August 2010 22.29 BST
Bronze Meryl, 1998 (detail), by Marlene Dumas. Photograph: copyright Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas is like Marmite. You either love her or you hate her. I have loved her since the 1990s, when I first encountered her paintings of nude women: transformed versions of the stock images of commercial pornography, thoroughly recognisable, [...]
Germaine Greer
Genna Gardini

JHB

RESOLUTION Gallery of Digital Art

1 DEC 2011 - 29 FEB 2012, Resolution Gallery
JHB

VISUAL CENTURY: South African Art in Context 1907–2007

1 DEC 2011 - 29 FEB 2012, WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS
BFN

WATERCOLOUR & PASTEL WORKS from the Permanent Collection

28 OCT 2011 - 3 MAR 2012, Oliewenhuis Art Museum
CPT

Stuart Bird

19 JAN - 25 FEB 2012, Goodman Gallery Cape
CPT

Donna Kukama

26 JAN - 25 FEB 2012, Blank Projects

EVERARD READ GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG
GOODMAN GALLERY CAPE, CAPE TOWN
WOODSTOCK INDUSTRIAL CENTRE, CAPE TOWN

Penny Siopis

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