Brett Murray: Putting it bluntly
Rory Bester believes that the violent outrage at Brett Murray's
painting of Jacob Zuma is as unsurprising as Murray's work itself.
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Lifelong dedication to communities' art education
Obituary - Charlotte Schaer (1946 - 2012)
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Challenging preconceptions about society
Owner of the Goodman Gallery, Liza Essers defends visual art's ability to challenge and shape consciousness and to shift people's hearts.
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Defacing race and culture: The Spear and politics of representation
Brett Murray's artwork has brought into sharp focus the issue of black people's representation at the hands of whites, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
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Spare us the schoolboy satire of 'The Spear'
Some random cock and balls plonked onto a picture of the president does not good satire make, writes Matthew Partridge.
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Ai Weiwei: Pricking your conscience
After the vast emptiness of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, Ai Weiwei this week filled a London space that could hardly be more of a contrast.
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Shoe Shop strides its way into inner-city Jozi
The festival has come from Frankfurt via Mali and deals with migration through a focus on movement
at its most basic level.
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The fracking intrusion of a sacred space
The artist who gives landscape a voice has created a work that disturbs environmental complacency.
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Art takes the cake
An African rights body has called on a Swedish minister to resign over her role in an art event that highlighted female genital mutilation and racism.
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Drawing a fine line between order and chaos
To tell you what Neil Le Roux's monochrome work means appears to need a paradoxically massive vocabulary.
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