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Fine Art

Michaelis is staffed by some of South Africa’s leading fine artists, curators and art academics. Internationally, the school is recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost institutions for the study of fine art and new media at an advanced level.

Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Art History

Visual and Art History is a six-course major available to students in the Humanities Faculty studying towards a BA degree. The courses provide an opportunity to study both the history of the fine arts and the history of other key visual traditions and cultures, including architecture, interior and industrial design and dress.

Undergraduate, Postgraduate

Curatorship

The Honours Programme in Curatorship is offered by the Michaelis School of Fine Art and hosted by the Centre for Curating the Archive in close collaboration with Iziko Museums of Cape Town.

The programme offers courses in the theory and practice of curatorship, developing in students a sophisticated awareness of the practicalities, politics and poetics of working with collections of many kinds.

 
 
 

News

Friday, 19 October 2018
Michaelis remembers Bruce Arnott

Emeritus Professor Bruce Murray Arnott passed away in Cape Town on Friday 20 July, just short of his 80th birthday. He was a formidable sculptor and academic, who taught at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT between 1978 and his retirement in 2003, and continued his association as a postgraduate supervisor and examiner.

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Publication Date:
Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 18:15
Michaelis graduates curating and exhibiting at Stevenson Galleries

Michaelis graduates curating and exhibiting at Stevenson Galleries, Cape Town and Johannesburg 5 July - 22 August 2018

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 12:15
Michaelis graduate Tiago Rodrigues is on show at SMAC Gallery

An exhibition titled Good Grief by Michaelis graduate Tiago Rodrigues is on show at SMAC Gallery from 7 July – 11 August.

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:30
Michaelis graduate and lecturer Rowan Smith exhibits at the Whatiftheworld Gallery

An exhibition titled Dead Centre by Michaelis graduate and lecturer Rowan Smith, will be on show at the new Whatiftheworld Gallery from 11 July – 18 August.

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Publication Date:
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:15

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Michaelis School of Fine Art
University of Cape Town
31 -37 Orange Street Gardens
8001 Cape Town
South Africa

Tell: 021 650 7111
Fax: 021 424 2889

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