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Goodman Gallery
Goodman Gallery is an art gallery founded in Johannesburg, South Africa by Linda Givon (previously Goodman) in 1966. The gallery operates spaces in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and London. It represents both established and emerging artists who are regarded as having helped shape the landscape of contemporary art in Southern Africa. History Founded during apartheid, the gallery opened with a show of 30 artists, mostly leading European modernists: Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Henry Moore. It remained a "resolutely non-discriminatory space", protecting its artists and freedom of expression during the political tumult. Goodman Gallery progressively emerged as one of South Africa's top contemporary art galleries. It focuses on "working with southern Africa's most significant artists, both established and emerging; those from the greater African continent; and international artists who engage with the African context." Major South African artists such as David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
Goodman or Goodmans may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Goodman Games, American publisher. * Goodman Global, an American HVAC manufacturer. * Goodman Group, an Australian property company. * Goodmans Industries, a British electronic company. * Goodmans, a Canadian law firm. People * Goodman (surname) * Goodman (title), an obsolete polite term of address, comparable to "Mister" People with the given name * Goodman Ace (1899–1982), American humorist * Goodman Dlamini (born 1985), South African soccer player * Goodman Lipkind (1878–1973), British rabbi * Goodman Mazibuko (born 1975), former South African soccer player * Goodman Mosele (born 1999), South African soccer player Characters * Cyrus Goodman, Disney Channel's first gay main character from ''Andi Mack'' * Goodman (NGBC), a fictional boss in ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum'' * Geneva Goodman, a character in 1986 American fantasy drama film '' The Boy Who Could Fly'' * Virginia Goodman, a fictional character in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid.Weinberg, Paul.David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman Social Landscape" The Conversation, 18 May 2019. After apartheid had ended he concentrated more on the country's landscapes. What differentiates Goldblatt's body of work from those of other anti-apartheid artists is that he photographed issues that went beyond the violent events of apartheid and reflected the conditions that led up to them. His forms of protest have a subtlety that traditional documentary photographs may lack: " dispassion was an attitude in which I tried to avoid easy judgments. . . . This resulted in a photography that appeared to be disengaged and apolitical, but which was in fact the opposite." He has numerous publications to his name. Early life Goldblatt was born in Randfontein, Gauteng Province, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounir Fatmi
; Mounir Fatmi (born 1970 in Tangier, Morocco) is an artist of Moroccan heritage. Born in the city of Tangiers, he spent a majority of his time the neighborhood of Casabarata. This neighborhood was known as one of the poorest in the city. He would often spend his time in the flea market, where his mother made a living by selling children's clothing. It was in this very environment that he found himself surrounded by commonly used objects and waste products. As a young boy, he traveled to Rome where he studied at the free school of nude drawing and engraving at the Academy of Arts, and then later at the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca, Morocco (1989), School of Fine Arts, Rome, Italy (1991), and finally studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. His multimedia practice encompasses video, installation, drawing, painting and sculpture, and he works with obsolete materials. In 2006, he won the Uriöt prize, the grand prize of the Dakar Biennial and the Cairo Biennial Award in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudzanai Chiurai
Kudzanai Chiurai (born 1981) is a Zimbabwean artist and activist. His repertoire of art combines the use of mixed media which involves the use of paintings, drawings, videos and photographs to address and tackle social, political and cultural issues in Zimbabwe. Since his first solo exhibition in 2003, his artworks have been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and documenta in Kassel, Germany. ''Forbes'' listed him among "Thirteen Africans To Watch In 2013". In 2015, he was named among the "15 Young African Creatives Rebranding Africa" by ''Forbes''. Kudzanai is not only an artist but also a poet, an activist and a cultural philosopher who addresses social and political injustices in Zimbabwe. Kudzanai is not known as a photographer, but he collaborates with other photographers to diversify the studio photography. Life and career Chiurai was born in 1981 Harare, Zimbabwe, but spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
Adam Broomberg (born 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (born 1971) are artists living and working in London. Together they have had numerous international exhibitions. Their work is represented in major public and private collections. They were awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for their book ''War Primer 2'', described as a "book that physically inhabits the pages of Bertolt Brecht's remarkable 1955 publication ''War Primer''." They were awarded the International Center of Photography Infinity Award for their publication, ''Holy Bible''. Broomberg and Chanarin founded the imprint ''Chopped Liver Press'' to publish and sell their own books as well as those by other artists. Broomberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and Chanarin was born in London. Publications *''Trust.'' London: Westzone, 2000. *''Ghetto.'' London: Trolley, 2003. *''Mr Mkhize's Portrait.'' London: Trolley, 2004. . *''Chicago.'' SteidlMACK, 2006. *''Fig.'' Göttingen: Steidl; Brighton: Photoworks, 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz (born 1972) is a South African white artist who works primarily in video and photography.White Cube She won a 2007 Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize. Her work is often characterized by multi-channel moving image installations, with a focus on the “attention economy” of contemporary media and culture, often represented in the parallelism of the identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures and widespread indifference to global issues. In 2017, she was selected to represent South Africa at the . Life Breitz was born in |
ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. History and operations The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'' and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as ''American Art News''. From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as ''The Art News'' then ''ARTnews''. The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto, Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr, Doug McClemont and Museum of Moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer ( ar, غادة عامر, May 22 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery. Amer had previously emigrated from Egypt to France at the age of 11 and was educated in Paris and Nice. She is currently living and working in New York City. Early life and education Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt she has lived in France for twenty years, and doesn't consider herself singularly Egyptian, African or French. When she was growing up in Cairo, her mother, an agronomist, made business suits for herself, and local women would often gather to sew. Amer's father, Mohamed Amer, was a diplomat and moved the family many times, not only to France but to such countries as Libya, Morocco and Algeria. For her, this exposure to different cultures are ultimately the most important biographical details need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
ruby onyinyechi amanze (born 1982), is a Nigerian-born British-American artist noted for drawings and works on paper which focus on cultural hybridity or "post-colonial non-nationalism." In addition to being an artist, she has also worked as a teacher and curator. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Early life and education Amanze was born in Nigeria in 1982. She was raised in the United Kingdom, living there for 13 years before coming to the United States in 2004 when she moved to Philadelphia. She received a B.F.A. degree ''summa cum laude'' from the Tyler School of Art at Philadelphia's Temple University in 2004. She received her M.F.A degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Work Amanze's graphite, ink and pigment drawings, often combined with photo transfers, are populated by hybrid creatures that exist in multi-geographic spaces, floating in the white space of their paper substrate. She is greatly influenced by Nigerian artists and the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RSHP
RSHP is a British architectural firm, founded in 1977 and previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership which became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. in 2007. The firm rebranded from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to simply RSHP on 30 June 2022, after retirement and death of Richard Rogers. Its main offices are located in the Leadenhall Building, London completed to the firm's designs in 2014. Previously they were at the Thames Wharf Studios. In its various incarnations it ihas designed many important buildings including the Lloyd's building and the Millennium Dome in London and the Senedd building in Cardiff. Description In addition to the principal offices the firm also maintains offices in Shanghai and Sydney. the firm has thirteen partners, including Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. The practice is run with a profit-share scheme and a limit on the directors' salaries in comparison with those of the lowest paid in the office. It is owned by a charitable trust, ens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Painters (magazine)
''Modern Painters'' is a monthly art magazine. It was launched as a quarterly in the United Kingdom in 1987, and is now published in New York City by Louise Blouin Media. History The magazine was launched in England in 1987 by the art critic Peter Fuller, who was the editor until he died in a car accident in 1990. It was at first a quarterly; the first issue appeared in Spring 1988. Fuller's associate editor, Karen Wright, acquired the title from its original backers, who included Bernard Jacobson of Bernard Jacobson Gallery and David Landau, founder and then editor of the scholarly journal, '' Print Quarterly''. Wright was retained for a short period in a consultancy capacity when the magazine was purchased by LTB Media in 2004 and its publishing operation was brought to New York City in June 2004. The first editor-in-chief under new ownership was Roger Tatley. David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Painters (magazine)
''Modern Painters'' is a monthly art magazine. It was launched as a quarterly in the United Kingdom in 1987, and is now published in New York City by Louise Blouin Media. History The magazine was launched in England in 1987 by the art critic Peter Fuller, who was editor until his death in a car accident in 1990. It was at first a quarterly; the first issue appeared in Spring 1988. Fuller's associate editor, Karen Wright, acquired the title from its original backers, who included Bernard Jacobson of Bernard Jacobson Gallery and David Landau, founder and then editor of the scholarly journal, '' Print Quarterly''. Wright was retained for a short period in a consultancy capacity when the magazine was purchased by LTB Media in 2004 and its publishing operation was brought to New York City in June 2004. The first editor-in-chief under new ownership was Roger Tatley. David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
