The Helsinki Museum is hosting Finland's first major review of South African art. Titled Peekaboo – Current South Africa

, the exhibition considers the current period of transition as one of 

the most pressing themes for many South African artists. Goodman Gallery

represented artists Hasan and Husain Essop, William Kentridge:, Johannes Segogela, Mikheal Subotzky, Nontsikelelo Veleko [...]

Positive action programmes for minority groups should remain on the cultural agenda until there is no organic need for them:

Omar Kholeif guardian.co.uk,

Monday 16 August 2010 18.00 BST

 A woman looks at Ghost 2007, part of the 2009 

exhibition Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi gallery. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images It is no secret that the new [...]

City takes out legal action over ownership of Jacob Wrey Mould's landmark designs found in a skip 50 years ago

                                           Ed Pilkington in New York

guardian.co.uk,

Thursday 12 August 2010

 

City takes out legal action over ownership of Jacob Wrey Mould's landmark designs found in a skip 50 years ago

 Jacob [...]

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In our age of abundance we have taken the culture of 'embarrassment' to insane extremes. We veer from madly optimistic to pathologically pessimistic. Can I be honest for one second? I just want to say I don't understand anything. The world makes no sense whatever. Contemporary reality has got so bizarre that [...]

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  Salvador Dali's oil painting Santiago el

Grande is on loan from Canada.

An exhibition of lateworks by artist Salvador Dali opens this weekend in Atlanta, including several pieces not seen in the US for half a century.The collection of 40 paintings - plus films, sculptures and photographs [...]