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I weaseled my way into the private opening of this show at Alliance Francaise last night – and it was fantastic. We really did get to see work from a lot of names previously unknown, they were actually mostly young (and all emerging), and the show, on the whole, was made up of a diverse group of art and artists that worked really well together in the space<\/p>\n
Some of the highlights were works and performances by Andrew Milne (aka Mr Orange, pictured), Boitumelo Donna Kukama, Alexandrea Ross and Dinkies Sithole – among others. I highly recommend checking out the public opening at their Parkview place on Moday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I weaseled my way into the private opening of this show at Alliance Francaise last night – and it was fantastic. We really did get to see work from a lot of names previously unknown, they were actually mostly young (and all emerging), and the show, on the whole, was made up of a diverse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-81","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1701,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/sprawl-milwaukee-art-exhibition-opening\/","url_meta":{"origin":497,"position":0},"title":"SPRAWL: milwaukee art exhibition opening","author":"nathaniel","date":"09 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm on my first show in Milwaukee - which opened this weekend - with 4 prints (and the Compressionism video), and 4 pieces from the odys series. 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