The City of Joburg bars political parties and the media from visiting the art gallery. It’s revealing of the city’s attitude towards transparency

The crown jewels of the JAG have spent the past decade on loan, with a massive 145 artworks, from Picasso to Degas and Monet, now on tour in South Korea

New twist in the great Joburg art grift: the man at the heart of the gallery crisis

You can almost imagine Salvador Dalí striding into the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and clapping eyes on his much-lauded 1930s work, Aphrodisiac Telephone. The almost…

In 2016, Wilhelm van Rensburg had just started his career as an art curator at Strauss & Co. While working at the auctioneers one day, he was visited by a dealer, who brought in…

New and unseen images of the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) reveal increasing ruin, while irreplaceable artworks, including pieces by South African greats like Irma Stern, may be…