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The South African artist who set a world record by selling a painting for R245 million
A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...
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This artist is painstakingly recreating mysterious ancient rock art – before it’s lost
In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...
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South African artist creates space where memory resists erasure
The MPW’s training helped Kganye develop projects where the past intersects with the present, hoping for a different future ...
Chicago Public Schools kids thrilled to collaborate on art project with women in South Africa
The hands-on experience introduces children to global creative traditions, builds fine motor skills, and celebrates the power ...
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South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research
More information: A possible later stone age painting of a dicynodont (Synapsida) from the South African Karoo, PLoS ONE (2024). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309908 Journal information: PLoS ONE ...
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South African rock art of mystery creature 'strangely flexed like a banana' might be tusked reptile that predated dinosaurs
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles. When you purchase through links on our ...
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Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92
“We were cursed with apartheid but blessed with great artists who shone a light on its impact and helped to guide us out of it. We owe a huge debt to this late, wonderful man,” South African ...