If you're having a bad hair day then make a date to go and be inspired at the Wits Art Museum later this month for DOING HAIR: Hair and art in Africa

The exhibition celebrates the creativity, individuality and innovation in hairstyling and art in South Africa and in other parts of the African continent and will open at Wits Art Museum on the 20th of August 2014. The exhibition is sponsored by…

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BMW Art Car Collection - 17 cars, an equal amount of artists and a 40 year commitment to the arts. The BMW Group have recently launched a coffee table book to celebrate the legendary BMW Art Cars.…

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Matthias Borowski has created a range of furniture that resembles oversized confectionary. Matthias Borowski, one half of studio Kollektiv Plus Zwei, designed the collection of candy-like objects that can be used as seats and tables for his thesis, titled The Importance of the…

The joint exhibition by Ilana Seati and the House on Fire Studio: Reverie Revealed is a

provocative show that revels in the freedom of semi-abstract art as the artists take

creative liberties with form, colour, texture, shape and line. Ilana Seati, Jiggs Thorne,

Shadrack Masuku and Noah Mdluli create and represent altered…

On the 20th of June 2013 The In Toto Art Gallery will be opening “CACHE”, a mixed curated show that will give wall space to a wide variety of artists we have recently begun working with. Artists such as Dahla Hulme, Arabella Caccia, Deborah da Silva, Razaq Awofeso and Sarel Petrus will be featured alongside many others.

For…

If you're twiddling your thumbs and not quite sure what to do this weekend, head on down to the Wits Art Museum in Braamfontein to see their latest exhibition: artist Susan Woolf's "Taxi Hand Signs: Symbolic Landscapes of Public Culture."…

Last week marked the much-anticipated Asian début of the world's premier international art fair, Art Basel. The renowned art fair, already a prominent annual event in its namesake home city in Switzerland as well as Miami, has now branched out to Hong Kong, establishing a dialogue between art collectors,…

Penny Siopis: Cloud

On 30 May 2013, Wits Art Museum (WAM) will host an auction of South African contemporary art in order to kick-start an endowment campaign and to celebrate the museum's first year of operation in the new…

On May 18, San Francisco's Gauntlet Gallery is opening an exciting new art show inspired by the electronic music duo. It may be hard to believe but it's been over eight years since Daft Punk's last album, Humans After All. On May 21, Daft Punk, the group known for their…

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Coffee art is created with 100% coffee instead of ink.  It’s a really fun take on art and whilst it’s made with one of our favourite indulgences, we too can appreciate looking at it just as much as we enjoying sipping it.

Here are a few extraordinary creations from two talented artists.…

Malaysian Artist, Hong Yi, truly takes playing with her food to the next level. Malaysian artist, Hong Yi, otherwise known as “Red”, is recognized for her large-scale thought-provoking installations with her most recent project being a thirty-one day challenge to create works of art with everyday food’s. The results of this challenge are brilliant…

If you think that this is a series of unearthly photo-manipulations, then you’re wrong! Moscow-based physician Leonid Tishkov is actually traveling the world with his own personal moon. The artist created the moon 10 years ago for a contemporary art performance, after which he took it back to his apartment and eventually started traveling around the…

Brooklyn-based artist Marc Andre Robinson uses discarded furniture to create his eye-catching sculptural installations. The artist's piece titled Right of Return (By Themselves and of Themselves) salvages over a dozen chairs and exhibits their assemblage as an infinite loop presented at a slant. Each chair in Robinson's piece is an integral part of the installation.…

A major trend that has taken over and made a huge impact on many industries, including the fashion, beauty and interior sectors, is the trend of “Sustainability”. Raising awareness about conserving the environment and introducing “greener” alternatives to our daily lives has become a necessity for many people.

This recycling trend can be seen all over from bags and hats,…

Rupert Sanderson has teamed up with illustrator and artist, Margot Bowman, to launch his latest collection Autumn/Winter 12 collection in a new style.  Bowman’s finger painted collaged, prehistoric, and colourful painting/ gifs are just that...new, vibrant and alive!…

There is precious little information about Rich Kelly, the person, on the web. But it is safe to say that I am completely obsessed with his work

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Barbara Goatcher always had a passion for design and began her career at a well-known Advertising Agency in Johannesburg. After searching for a change in pace and some much needed inspiration, 2010 saw Barbara move from the Big city to a more quiet and peaceful Durban – which is when Flutter came about.

Although never being taught jewellery design, Barbara found that the materials…

Veri Apriyatno's captivating collection of human forms drawn with intense detail has created these hyper-realistic illustrations of himself. 

Each monochromatic form continues from the previous in an exploration of infinity. It's often difficult to identify where the drawing ends and the real artist begins. Apriyatno uses just a pencil to build the shadows…

In stark contrast to New York City’s ever dismal subway transportation, Stockholm is home to what some have called the “world’s longest art exhibition,” i.e. brightly painted subway art. Most of the Swedish capital’s metro stations feature this amazing underground artwork. Captured here by visiting Russian tourist Alexander Dragunov, the city has continued the tradition of…

Armed with a standard garden rake, environmental artist Tony Plant transforms the breathtakingly scenic beaches of England into temporary canvases for his swirling sand drawings. The drawings are temporary, ephemeral works that are meant to be washed away by the waves or a storm.…