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Photography

Chinks in the shadows

Viviane Sassen explores the spaces between home and away, night and day, life and dreams.
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Cape art picks: February 10 2012

Public performance and invisibility, social and political boundaries and the artist's role in society are themes that artist Donna Kukama tackles.
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Jo'burg art picks: February 10 2012

Johannesburg's most established commercial gallery celebrates the new year with an enormous group show.
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Photography

'Everyone's view of Jo’burg is valid'

Kutlwano Moagi's exhibition Split Façades, curated by Thato Mogotsi, asks us to take another look at the heart of Johannesburg.
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Photography

Nairobi from dusk to dawn

An unblinking and voyeuristic portrayal celebrates the city as the site of multiple stories and identities.
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Visual art

The white elephant in the room

Artist Candice Breitz is using the popular soapie Generations to further the racial debate in South Africa.
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Jo'burg art picks: February 3 2012

February 10 marks the ­opening of The Courage of ||kabbo: from ­landscape to literature, an ­exhibition curated by Pippa Skotnes.
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Jo'burg photography picks: February 3 2012

Johannesburg city provides a ­constant source of fascination for photographers.
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Cape art picks: February 3 2012

The World Press Photo 2011 Exhibition is both a ­celebration of the medium and a startling portrait of our ­contemporary world.
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Spanish museum reveals earliest Mona Lisa copy

Spanish curators identified Wednesday what they think is the earliest ever copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
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Indian artist assaulted over nude paintings

The artist said he had been beaten up at his gallery by five men over nude paintings that the attackers claimed were an insult to the country.
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Visual art

Silk cape out of spider’s web

It has taken eight years and more than one million Madagascar golden orb spiders to create a work of art.
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Visual art

Jo'burg gallery awash in sewage

Institution faces a funding crisis that could result in ­priceless works in its storerooms getting damaged.
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Cape art picks: January 27 2012

They employ vastly different mediums and explore divergent themes, but ­Viviane Sassen and Nandipha Mntambo share a preoccupation with perception.
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Durban art picks: January 27 2012

The raucous photography ­exhibition, Hidden like a ­Cotton Mouth in the Woods, is ­showing at ­the Collective.
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Jo'burg art pick: January 27 2012

This week sees the opening of the first solo show by graffiti artist Philip Botha, who has been spraying walls for more than 12 years.
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Visual art

Currency of culture

Deciding what constitutes a South African heritage work of art seems to be a guessing game.
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Cape art picks: January 20 2012

Avant Car Guard’s day-long exhibition closing party will be an experiment in organised chaos.
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Durban art pick: January 20 2012

artSPACE durban is accepting submissions for Phoneography, an exhibition of photos taken with phones.
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Jo'burg art picks: January 20 2012

Recently "discovered" and self-taught Limpopo artist John Phalane’s exhibition, Malete, is a series of interesting maps.
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