Archived: The African Art Business Newsletter

Strauss & Co, Africa’s Leading Art Auction House announces joint initiative with the Art Business Conference African Art Business News Digest to provide regular aggregated information Free Subscription Cape Town/London – A new fortnightly African Art Business News Digest launches this week. Each edition will share selected top, recent stories as they relate to the

Important paintings by Gerard Sekoto and Penny Siopis in Strauss & Co’s flagship Johannesburg sale

A historically important Gerard Sekoto painting depicting Sophiatown, a multi-cultural suburb of Johannesburg destroyed under apartheid, leads an exceptional consignment of works by ground-breaking black artists in Strauss & Co’s flagship live-virtual Evening Sale of modern and contemporary art in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 26 May 2026 at 7pm. They include pioneer black modernists Gerard Bhengu