Artist Walter Battiss. In South Africa, this grant has been received by the Wits Art Museum (WAM) to conserve a collection of Ndebele beaded aprons and by the Johannesburg Art Gallery to conserve ...

When Jack Ginsberg bought his first Walter Battiss painting for R120, he had no idea that it would one day form part of a special multimillion-rand exhibition at the Wits Art Museum.Hailed as the ...

You need not be sent to your room to experience Walter Battiss’ world, his massive oeuvre of art, which pops up in museum shows and art auctions, and offers a sense of being banished to a ...

Between now and Nov. 7, visitors to the Walters Art Museum can mark the holiday by picking up an art kit to make an ofrenda, or offering, to leave at an altar designed by artist Edgar Reyes.

Lucinda Jolly Last year, the exhibition It begins with Battiss at The New Church contemporary art museum exhibited not only works by Walter Battiss, but also artists “whose production shares an ...

A Walter Battiss painting is among the exciting finds uncovered during Strauss & Co’s Antiques Roadshow-style valuation day at the Tatham Art Gallery in Pieter­maritzburg. A Walter Battiss ...

The larger-than-life-size paintings by the late Walter Battiss and John H Amshewitz ... would be to take the artworks down and store them at the museum, “but the thing with public art is that it must ...