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The Johannesburg Art Gallery collection was opened to the public in 1910, before the gallery itself had been built, and was housed at the University of the Witwatersrand. The architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens , came to South Africa in 1910 to examine the site and begin the designs, after Lady Florence Phillips had secured funding from the city for a ...
The Brenthurst Library collection focuses mainly on the southern African region with most of the materials created from the 16th century until the 21st century. The collection consists of art, books & pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. [5] One of the oldest items in the collection was published in approximately 1488.
2016 SEX, Stevenson, Johannesburg; 2016 Close to Home: New Photography from Africa, The Walther Collection Project Space, New York; 2017 Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg, Gund Gallery, Ohio; 2017 Recent Histories – New African Photography and Video Art, Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Jane Alexander has won several awards during her career as a solo and group artist. Alexander has work displayed in several public collections, including the South African National Gallery, Tatham Art Gallery, Johannesburg Art Gallery, and the public collection at University of Witwatersrand. [4] Awards include:
Nel Erasmus worked at the Johannesburg Art Gallery from 1957 and was the director from 1966 until her retirement in 1977. [4] She contributed to the acquisition of artworks for public and corporate (especially Sanlam and Sasol) collections in South Africa, in particular the international modern and contemporary collection at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Goodman Gallery is an art gallery founded in Johannesburg, South Africa by Linda Givon (previously Goodman) in 1966. [1] [2] The gallery operates spaces in Johannesburg, Cape Town, London and New York. It represents both established and emerging artists who are regarded as having helped shape the landscape of contemporary art in Southern Africa.
Johannesburg is home to the National School of Arts, The University of Witwatersrand's School of the Arts and the South African Ballet Theatre, [115] [116] as well as the Johannesburg Art Gallery [117] and other prominent cultural landmarks, such as the Mary Fitzgerald Square [115] and numerous other museums, theatres, galleries and libraries ...
This list of museums in South Africa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organisations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.