The world's greatest flower show reveals cutting-edge garden design, fabulous floral displays and simply the best shopping, 21-25 May 2024. All the main garden categories are returning in 2024. As well as the Show Gardens along Main Avenue, Sanctuary and Feature Gardens explore themes through horticulture, while the All About Plants area in the Floral Marquee focuses on planting. For smaller [...]
Read moreOltmann’s sculptures seem to transcend the terrestrial and evoke a cosmic and eternal quality that defies the ephemeral nature of both insect and human existence. Within this intersection, Oltmann’s work contemplates the passage of time, weaving the impermanent into immortality. These sculptural works jet black, steel grey and gold shimmer with intricate detail, myriads of [...]
Read moreThe Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square is one of the most important art commissions worldwide, putting new work by internationally renowned artists into the heart of London. Self’s sculpture, Lady in Blue, is inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary ‘everywoman’ to Trafalgar Square – a walking icon of the everyday, rather than an [...]
Read moreFollowing their first exhibition in 2004 at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the artist worked for the magazine Behind the Mask and cofounded the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, based in Gauteng. Muholi defines themself as a “visual activist”. Their work seeks to shine a light on a marginalised lesbian community, which is often a victim of [...]
Read moreZizipho Poswa upscales objects of African beautification and ritual in this series of monumental sculptures. Precious metal jewellery, beadwork, hair combs and pins made by master artisans across the continent are emulated as bronze-cast elements resting atop vast ceramic silos, revering and immortalising the valued positions these amulets hold. Indyebo yakwaNtu (Black Bounty) is Zizipho Poswa’s [...]
Read moreWonderful article in WANTED magazine - The South African Business Times!
Read moreInvestec Cape Town Art Fair is Africa's largest art fair. With over 100 exhibitors, 25 000 visitors, and 6 500 VIPs, it offers a platform for galleries, collectors, curators and artists from around the globe to create connections at the forefront of contemporary art. With an intimate experience of one of the world's most unique [...]
Read moreIn support of the impending Chinese New Year, heralding the year of the Dragon, the K.T. Wong Foundation has partnered with Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town for a special screening of Chinese contemporary multimedia artist Yang Yongliang’s (YYL) masterpiece ‘Five Dragons’ on Saturday, February 10, 2024. It will be free to the public. [...]
Read moreThis Saturday, we welcome in the Year of the Dragon - a particularly special year in our Chinese New Year calendar. Now begins a time of strength, luck, health and success. The Chinese zodiac is a 12-year cycle that links each year to an animal sign. The 12 animal signs are Rat (shu 鼠), Ox (niu 牛), [...]
Read moreGermany, 1938. Kristallnacht. To survive the pending threat, two brothers are sent halfway around the world, to Shanghai. Otto cherishes his heritage, while Josef seeks a new path, and falls in love with Lina, a Chinese woman recovering from the loss of her mother in the Nanjing Massacre. From there flows Émigré, a semi-staged oratorio [...]
Read moreArt Basel Hong Kong returns to full scale with a 2024 edition featuring 243 premier international galleries and a vibrant program both within and beyond the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) Art Basel’s 2024 Hong Kong edition will feature 243 galleries from 40 countries and territories, a 37% increase in exhibitor numbers compared [...]
Read moreZanele Muholi is one of the most acclaimed photographers working today, and their work has been exhibited all over the world. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. Muholi describes themself as a visual activist. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of [...]
Read moreThe Shanghai New Year's Concert 2024 was held at Shanghai Symphony Hall on December 31st, 2023. Renowned pianist Lang Lang performed "Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Edvard Grieg with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Briton Daniel Harding conducted the concert. He is a long time friend of both Lang Lang and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
Read moreOpen up to the spirited combination of young talent and those who believe in it, as Opera Tenor Luvo Maranti and performing arts patron Lady Linda Wong Davies join forces to put Africa’s most beautiful voices on the world stage. Watch The Insider SA, Monday evenings at 6PM and repeats on Saturdays at 1PM on [...]
Read moreMaestro Long Yu, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO) and the New York Philharmonic (NY Phil) today [6July] announce the co-commission of Émigré, a new oratorio by award-winning composer Aaron Zigman, with lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning librettist Mark Campbell and songwriter Brock Walsh. The work will be premiered on 17 November 2023 at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall before its US premiere on 29 February 2024 at [...]
Read moreThe Operalia Competition which was held at the Cape Town Opera has announced its 2023 winners. The first-prize winners were Stephano Park and Julie Roset while second prize went to Luke Sutliff and Eugénie Joneau. The third prize went to Navasard Hakobyan and Elena Villalon. Eugénie Joneau was the winner of the Birgit Nilsson award, [...]
Read moreSo proud and thrilled for Robert!! Five stars for a powerful and gripping Peter Grimes at La Scala, Milan. Benjamin Britten’s grim tale of persecution and intolerance is taking Italy by storm. Financial Times Director Robert Carsen’s new production for La Scala, the first at the Milan house for more than a decade, sets the [...]
Read moreOperalia was founded in 1993 by Plácido Domingo to discover and help launch the careers of the most promising young opera singers of today. Operalia’s goal is to attract singers between the ages of twenty and thirty-two, of all voice types from and all over the world, to have them audition and be heard by [...]
Read moreThe great soprano Dame Felicity Lott won this year’s Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award on Wednesday. As Richard Fairman reflects in Gramophone’s Awards issue (out now): ‘Lott’s was a voice that was limpid, warm, gleaming – a classic lyric soprano. Its home territory was Mozart and Strauss, and looking back we can see that Lott forms [...]
Read moreOn October 7th & 8th, Beijing Music Festival will introduce "Medium Theater Opera," featuring a new adaptation of Bartók's opera Bluebeard's Castle by the U.K.-based @theatreofsound, performed by the @london.sinfonietta at the Beijing Comedy Theatre. Susan Bickley and Graeme Danby star; Stephen Higgins conducts; Daisy Evans directs.
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