South Africa’s once-thriving cultural scene is under threat because coronavirus restrictions have made it difficult to stage public events but some artists have found new ways to show off their creativity, as Mohammed Allie reports from Cape Town. News of the closure of Cape Town’s Fugard Theatre last month was greeted like the demise of […]
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Early last September, in what in any other year would be considered the dwindling days of the Hamptons social season, the mega-gallery Pace opened a joint show of two Brazilian artists at its jewel-box gallery space in the heart of East Hampton Village. Inaugurated just two months prior in a bid to cater to collectors who had
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Louis Netter People are dying, critical resources are stretched, the very essence of our freedom is shrinking – and yet we are moved inward, to the vast inner space of our thoughts and imagination, a place we have perhaps neglected. Of all the necessities we now feel so keenly aware of, the arts and their
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Alma Thomas was born in the state of Georgia in the United States in 1892. At school she was a model student who shone in many subjects. The family later settled in Washington D.C in order for the gifted young Alma to live in a region which created more educational opportunities for African American youngsters.
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Alexxa Gotthardt Ask an average person to name an Latin American woman artist, and they’ll most likely mention Frida Kahlo. There’s no disputing Kahlo’s place in the art-historical canon as a master of Surrealism and self-portraiture. But even she confronted hurdles on her journey into history books and popular consciousness—including the flagrant marginalization she faced
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One of the last paintings Frida Kahlo ever created was entitled ´Marxism will heal the sick` (1954). Analysis of the painting, however, necessitates an understand of the artist herself, her motivation and personal context within an intriguing life and artistic career, culminating in this work which would be one of her final messages to the
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