Just after 1pm on a Friday, I follow Sue Williamson through the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town into a room that houses one section of her upcoming exhibition, titled Inside the Studio.
Select works from the Brandywine Workshop and Archive in Philadelphia are on display at the Hammonds House Museum from January 24 to June 22 in the exhibition Sacred Space: Brandywine Workshop and Archives/Espacio sagrado: taller y archivos Brandywine.
Katsushika Hokusai, Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) [“Red Fuji”] (1831), $200,000 to $300,000 estimate, is due to be sold at Christie's Japanese and Korean Art Auction in New York on March 18, 2025. Woodblock Print, 25.1 x 37.5cm. The work has not been traded before.
Inside the room, all four walls are adorned with life-sized paintings, or perhaps even reflections, of people looking past each otherits us without being you and I.
“It feels like it came out of a shared community,” the Johannesburg-based South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis tells Observer about making his U.S. institutional debut alongside London-based Swiss artist Deborah-Joyce Holman in separate exhibitions exploring Black identity.