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JOHANNESBURG -- A South African painting showing the president in what appears to be a sexual act with Nelson Mandela is stirring outrage as well as calls to respect freedom of expression.. Artist ...
The late South African President Nelson Mandela and his then wife Graca Machel talk to President Jacob Zuma after the State of the Nation address in Cape Town on June 3, 2009.
South African revolutionary-turned-peacemaker Nelson Mandela has become a popular artist, creating drawings in charcoal and pastel of his time as an inmate at the brutal Robben Island prison. In ...
2005-05-11 04:00:00 PDT Cape Town, South Africa-- As far as art forgeries go, this one isn't on par with a counterfeit Rembrandt or a faked Picasso. But when the artist in question is Nelson ...
Makaziwe Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s daughter and founder of House of Mandela Art International, a Cape Town firm that owns the artworks, refutes the accusation that the drawings and sketches are ...
People Nelson Mandela Was an Artist, Too, and Now His Family Has Revealed Never-Before-Seen Artworks to Mark His 100th Birthday. Nelson Mandela turned to art after retiring from politics, but ...
A painting depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing dissection has provoked disgust and been compared to witchcraft by the African National Congress. The artwork is a parody of Rembrandt ...
A new painting that depicts the body of Nelson Mandela undergoing an autopsy has sparked outrage from the country's ruling party. The African National Congress said the painting violates the ...
Once auctioned to help defray Nelson Mandela’s legal costs, a lost painting by South Africa’s leading artist Irma Stern, sold yesterday at Bonhams London for £842,500 ($1.3 million).
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum is located at St George’s Park, on the corner of Rink Street and Park Drive. It is home to a comprehensive collection of South African art and craft and ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - From books and T-shirts to bracelets and ostrich eggs, Nelson Mandela art and memorabilia have been flying off shelves and stalls as mourners search for a memento of South ...