Smartphone cameras have come a long, long way since those crappy little one-megapixel cameras on the back of old Motorola clam-shells. And thank God for that. But if we’re honest, there are limitations to a any smartphone camera. But that’s where gadgets like this one fit in.
It may not be Francis Bacon’s R1.4 billion best-seller, but you have to admit that half a billion rand is still a helluva lot, and it’s worth seeing what kind of art deserves that degree of monetary exchange.
It has been a while since Luis Suárez bit the arm of Branislav Ivanović during a match between Liverpool and Chelsea. Lest you forget again, local artistic genius, Regis Matare has stepped up to the plate, producing a stunning portrait of the event. Check it out.
Like so many artists before him, Kazimir Malevich has borne the brunt of rejection many times over. Before his success, he attempted to get into art school, but was twice rejected – which prompted him to try out this controversial stunt.
Calling beach bums everywhere: it’s time to get excited about the Wavescape Film Festival. If you love the ocean, the great outdoors, and surfing, it’s the place for you. In 2012 over 3,000 people attended, and the festival raised R240 000 for ocean preservation. This year, it’s set to be even bigger and better.
The legendary painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer produced a massive, all-engulfing body of work in his life. And for the first time, it’s coming to Cape Town.
You may have noticed a few ludicrous art sales happening lately, what with this Andy Warhol painting going for a billion rand, and this Francis Bacon piece which was sold for a billion and a half. But how is this value created? Where does it come from and how does it rise so exponentially? Perhaps the world of crime is to blame.
There have been some really, really big art deals lately. Just this week, the worlds most expensive artwork was sold for R1.4 billion. And another billion-rand deal was finalised just yesterday. Dollar bills everywhere.
Maybe the guy who bought the R10 million toy car saved some of his pennies and bought this too? Until now, the most expensive piece of artwork ever sold was Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ for the neat sum of R1,2 billion. Now, Mr Munch has been toppled by someone whose surname is ‘Bacon’.
Dirty Skirts lead singer, Jeremy De Tolly, has been working on a soundtrack for a new project called ‘Into The River’. The project is written and performed by 75 year-old John Cartwright, ex-Dean of the Arts Faculty and English Professor at UCT.
Banksy has hordes of Americans drooling and panting over his most recent installations all over New York. In October, he took a 31-day ‘residency’ in the streets of NY, and in that time managed to turn 5 neighbourhoods into one massive graffiti scavenger hunt. His stay caused waves across American media, as he taunted Mayor Bloomberg, criticised the new world trade centre design and filled a slaughterhouse delivery truck filled with animatronic pig and sheep plush toys.
Platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook that were developed alongside the smartphone have birthed a new creative class – the phone-tographers. Some phone photography enthusiasts are good, composing neat shots of their family, their pets and their holidays. Some of them, however, should never have been handed anything capable of taking photos. If you fall into the latter group of individuals, you’ll be happy to know that we have a little how-to guide in the form of an infographic called ‘Phone-Tography 101’
So a few weeks ago, newly appointed Cricket South Africa CEO Haroon Lorgat released the 2014 match itinerary for the Proteas – which miffed the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The BCCI has always had an edgy relationship with Lorgat, especially during his stint as the ICC CEO due to their differences over a number of issues. Zapiro, in typical fashion, took to his drawing board and produced something that Hindus aren’t particularly happy with.
iPhone camera lenses are not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination. They emerged a few years ago, to accommodate and enhance the steadily improving camera technology that was being developed. They started out small, with individual lenses being sold for about R200, and a set of all sorts of different lenses being sold for around R500. It was more of a start-up company kind of thing to do – but now the big dogs have latched onto to the market, and Sony is one of those who are looking to make a big impact.
Artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada unveiled his 11-acre land art portrait of a girl, who is apparently making a wish. Located in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, Ireland, the artwork, titled “WISH,” took one month to construct and required 30,000 wooden pegs, 2,000 tons of soil, and 2,000 tons of sand.
Remember when we broke the news yesterday of Banksy’s art being defaced in New York? Well, if the images weren’t enough to go by, we got hold a video that sheds light on just how bad the graffiti has gotten.
Well imagine the hundreds and thousands of people that walked past Banksy’s New York street stand, not realising they could buy his art – worth millions – for a few dollars. One woman even negotiated a 50% discount!
Banksy, the elusive street artist that everyone loves, seems to have made a couple enemies. His artworks have been popping up all over New York City over the last couple of weeks for his “street exhibit” entitled, ‘Better Out Than In’.
Banksy has broken his silence with a rare and “confidential” interview with the Village Voice. He’s been living in New York now and made the streets home to his exhibit, entitled “Better Out Than In”.
Our – indeed, the world’s – favourite street artist, Banksy has expanded his repertoire to include video projects. His first work was uploaded to YouTube over the weekend. Titled, ‘Rebel rocket attack’, the video has already clocked up over half a million views. Banksy’s ‘Better Out Than In’ street art project is already in full […]
Brand new pictures of the ever elusive Bigfoot have been snapped by Pennsylvania hiker, John Stoneman. In the pictures, the mostly solitary Sasquatch can be seen with a companion – that’s right, Bigfoot has found a mate…Bigfeet?
For five centuries, a painting of a noblewoman by Leonardo da Vinci was “lost” to the world. That was until the priceless piece was unearthed in an Italian family’s Swiss bank vault.
Banksy is attempting to host an art exhibit, titled “Better Out Than In,” on the streets of New York. Last week, we brought you a new artwork of his spotted on the streets of LA – it seems that was just the beginning of the elusive artist’s master plan.
Pictures of an old man with his wang out have appeared on 65-year-old Richard Barnes’ Facebook account. Openly gay Mr. Barnes was deputy mayor to Boris Johnson between 2008 and 2012. He insists his Facebook account was hacked and he didn’t upload the pictures, but there is speculation that the pictures could have been uploaded automatically using an iPhone Facebook app.
Two Bills, one selfie. The legendary ex-US President, Bill Clinton, and equally legendary co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, posed for a legend….wait for it…..dary selfie at the Clinton Global Initiative this week.
Former US President George W. Bush is on Instagram. Of course he is. He joined a couple weeks ago and here’s something else you probably didn’t know, he has a cat named Bob.
Here’s the graffiti artist’s latest piece as seen on the streets of Los Angeles, entitled ‘Better Out Than In’. Looks a lot like Tyler, The Creator in the Yonkers video doesn’t it?
Check out these art installations by an Italian artist in New York City who is bringing Google Street View to life through his project called ‘Street Ghosts.’ He scours Google Street View until he finds an interesting looking person (Google blurs out the faces of people captured by their cameras) then he prints out a life sized photo and paints it on to the side of a building where that person was spotted.
This hotel is decorated with guest-shot Instagram photos and there’s even a space for you to take a selfie when you check in. At the entrance they have a revolving digital mural of Instagram photos and, if you have over 100,000 followers, you get a free night’s stay!
Days after the word “selfie” officially got added to the Oxford English Dictionary, a photo of the pope doing exactly that has gone viral