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Hope: Photographs by Ilvy Njiokiktjien capture the lives of the born-free generation.

Diary: Generation of Hope, Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Eyaaz
2 min read
Gone: When it came under the hammer in 2013, Vladimir Tretchikoff’s portrait Chinese Girl sold for £1 million.

Tretchikoff can’t be brushed aside

Tretchi also knew how to find innovative gaps to make money out of his art

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Museum grade: Vladimir Tretchikoff’s 1949 painting Herb Seller was his first painting to be exhibited in the South African National Gallery, in 2010.

Tretchi, the original meme artist, enjoys lift off at auction

Passion, profit, prestige … the popularity of ‘the people’s artist’ endures, despite his work being rejected as kitsch

  • Eyaaz
8 min read