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It is never too late to be a man by Norman O'Flynn It is never too late to be a man by Norman O'Flynn This is from South Africa - Just Imagine... Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201505271529.html Copyright © 2015 The Journalist. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media ( allAfrica.com ). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.   AllAfrica publishes around 2,000 reports a day from more than 130 news organizations and over 200 other institutions and individuals , representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher a...

Here is an article way back in 2006 but still holds weight today. By Stephen Bevan in Pretoria 12:01AM GMT 12 Mar 2006 Source: The Telegraph   He was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and also one of the most controversial. And now, 33 years after his death, the first significant exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work in South Africa has provoked a furious row after a senior government official accused him of stealing the work of African artists to boost his "flagging talent". The Picasso and Africa exhibition, which has been drawing capacity crowds at Johannesburg's Standard Bank Gallery, contains 84 original works by Picasso along with 29 African sculptures similar to those in the artist's own collection, and is described as an "innovative dialogue between Picasso's work and his African inspiration". In an extraordinary intervention, however, a spokesman for the South African Department of Arts and Culture has accused...

This is an Online Exhibition Open to the Entire World  Curated by Joe Pollitt - 2014/2015 Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (Italian pronunciation:  [ameˈdɛo modiʎˈʎani] ; July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France and lived in Montparnasse, Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures. AMEDEO MODIGLIANI Female Nude Source: Louvre in Paris A return to the Louvre — or a long-awaited arrival Ngil Mask | Fang People, Equatorial Africa Pollitt Collection Non-Western art has not always been absent from the Louvre. In 1827, under the reign of Charles X, the Louvre housed a maritime and ethnographic museum called the Musée Dauphin, where visitors could admire “exotic” pieces brought back by great explorers such as Cook and Lapérouse—objects regarded as mere “ ethnographic specimens ”. After Jules Ferry’s decision to sepa...

  Source: The Zimbabwe Daily 21st ⁄ April ⁄ 2015  Knowledge Mushohwe Correspondent Since the days of the Renaissance art movement, art historians and critics have sought to use theory as a form of classification for artworks. Though theories have given the art world a way to organise works into different categories, no one theory among scores of them is considered the most accepted or appropriate. There is no universally accepted theory or method of understanding art, therefore the area surrounding the aesthetics of artworks has been a tricky one for centuries. Some theorists have categorised art into two distinct groups – high art and low art. Depending on who is classifying, the two contrasts can never be clear-cut. African art, for example, has been termed “low art” by many when compared to European art simply because it does not have the history and legacy of the latter as documented in Europe. But is African art “low art” only because it was created by ...

  Sol LeWitt: Your Mind Is Exactly at That Line 20 Feb 2014-03 Aug 2014 , Source: Time Out This event has finished Embrace the colour in this exhibition of work by the late conceptual art pioneer When we think of minimalism, we don’t necessarily think of the bright, bold patterns of Sol LeWitt’s wall paintings; but he was at the vanguard of the mid-’60s movement, which reinvented art as something pure, simple, concrete. It was art for the people: accessible, by dint of referring only to itself and eschewing centuries of art history. John Kaldor says of LeWitt’s work, “it was groundbreaking, he established a new vocabulary of visual expression.”   LeWitt’s primary domain was the conceptual branch of minimalism (“the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work,” he wrote in his treatise Paragraphs on Conceptual Art ). Over his career he explored art based on formulas...

$700 Million Sale at Christie’s Becomes ‘One of the Greatest Moments in Auction History’ By Sarah P. Hanson   The scene at Chirstie's last night. “One of the greatest moments in auction history,” proclaimed Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkänen after presiding over the “Looking Forward to the Past” sale at 20 Rockefeller Plaza last night. Comprised of choice 20th-century works — ranging from Impressionist classics to contemporary stunners — the 90-minute auction brought in a heady $705,858,000 for just 34 lots (only one piece went unsold) and established new pri...

This is an interesting idea for an International Exhibition - The first exhibition of the year in Japan about the usage and importance of the door. Date: April 2 - June 1, 2015   THE DOOR     Ethnically various characteristic doors exist in Africa, Indonesia, Philippine, or others. The majority of doors have a religious meaning of "barrier" besides the purpose of protecting people from animals, their enemies, or cold weathers. Consequently, the variety of designs depending on the people can be seen with diverse meanings on the door. This exhibition compares unique doors in Africa and other countries to introduce their characteristics along with masks and statures.    Nominal Support: Embassy of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon, Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Embassy of Burkina Faso, Embassy of the Republic of Mali, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, Emba...

  1712-7 Nakamaru Nagasakacho Hokutoshi Yamanashiken, Japan 408-0036  0551-45-8111 Hours 9:30am-5:00pm (Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday except holidays) africanartmuseum2010@gmail.com AFRICA BIG IN JAPAN Picasso, Black, Modigliani, Matisse, and other modern artists were all inspired by African, Oceania, or primitive art. Their visions which came from African art give us interesting configurations’, forms, expressions, and material textures that attract people’s feelings and emotions. It has the power to influence our hearts and we become captivated by its mysterious beauty. Over several hundred years, each tribe selected forms and expressions uniquely derived from their roots. More and more their works of art were inspired by their spirit and we too can experience their hopes of surviving, existing, and living. These are the origins of their spiritual creation. We who live in modern times can be inspired by African art. The African Art Museum was established in an area...

Source: Africana Afrique du Sud Cape Town South African National Gallery Government Avenue ma-di 10-17 Arts de la perle / Expositions temporaires Cape Town Gold of Africa Museum . Martin Melck House 96 Strand Street Bijoux d'or d'Afrique de l'Ouest (coll Barbier-Mueller); objets d'or des civilisations d'Afrique australe Cape Town - Gardens South African Museum 25 Queen Victoria Street lu-di 1...