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For over a decade, the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) has faced persistent challenges with little progress. Every year, public concern resurfaces over the potential loss of one of South Africa’s ...
Earlier this year, the Mail & Guardian carried a story saying that the neglect of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) reflected widespread public and media sentiment that it, once a cultural jewel ...
Once a booming mining town, Johannesburg ... and FNB Art Joburg, which Sibeko relaunched in 2019, attracts a host of international collectors and galleries. When rethinking the fair’s strategy ...
City of Johannesburg is painfully negligent of family jewels accommodated at Johannesburg Art Gallery. Consequently last year the gallery lost four valuable works of art worth just over a million, to ...
Something which had once been gleaming and energised, into something which has collapsed to ruin,’ said Christopher Till, director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery in its heyday (from 1984-1992).
Only two out of 15 exhibition halls at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) are fit for use, with priceless artworks stored in the gallery’s coffee shop and boardrooms, where they could be ...
The Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) has again been the target of thieves with the theft of three valuable bronze artworks on 25 September. The stolen works are "King of the Universe" by Ernest ...
Having been shown at international art galleries, many of their tapestries are now being displayed under one roof for the first time, at an exhibition in Johannesburg. Their story begins in 2000 ...
Tensions rise as DA councillors are locked out of the Johannesburg Art Gallery during an oversight visit, questioning the secrecy behind renovations and gallery conditions. Johannesburg Art ...