During Investec Cape Town Art Fair week, Strauss & Co will be hosting, the second iteration of the Art Business Conference Africa in partnership with iToo Artinsure. The talks will be moderated by London-based, Riah Pryor from The Art Newspaper who has written a book on art crime and worked in Scotland Yard as an art loss specialist before her journalism career.
Wednesday, 14 February at 2pm, Strauss & Co, at Brickfield Canvas, 35 Brickfield Road, Woodstock
Talk 1:
The Art of Collection Management:
Caring for your art, preventing theft, and identifying fakes and forgeries
Gail Bosch – iToo ArtInsure
Alastair Meredith – Head of the Art Department, Strauss & Co
Salomé le Roux – University of Pretoria Museums
Lee Burgers – Collection Manager, Zeitz MOCAA
Talk 2:
The African Art Landscape:
Dissolving Boundaries
Camilla van Hoogstraten – Head of Sales, Lattitudes Online
Kimberley Cunningham – Art Advisor & Independent Curator
Charlotte Ashamu – Director of International Program, Yale University, Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Tandazani Dhlakama – Curator, Zeitz MOCAA
