Art: Returning Reptiles, Or Jy Wouw Mos

Art: Returning Reptiles, Or Jy Wouw Mos

A previously unseen sculpture of two lizards by Dutch sculptor Anton van Wouw (below) surfaced for auction at Russell Kaplan Auctioneers in Johannesburg earlier this year. The piece had become something of a legend for scholars of van Wouw’s work.     The...
Opinion: Pierneef Posers, Or Painting Over The Past

Opinion: Pierneef Posers, Or Painting Over The Past

By GABRIEL CROUSE   There is a taste war being waged in South Africa. On one side, a distaste for shame dominates. Let me put it this way: if your grandfather was sympathetic to evil social experiments, please don’t take me up to the attic and show me how nicely...