Sean O Toole

Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days

Friday Sean O Toole - 23 Oct 2021

Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at

Why place matters in celebrating Jo’burg’s club history

Friday Sean O Toole - 23 Sep 2021

The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing

Matthew Krouse’s ‘mid-career retrospective of a no career’

Friday Sean O Toole - 1 May 2021

An exhibition of Matthew Krouse’s underground films reveal an agitator awed by the tradition of ‘dirty queens’

Extract from ‘The Journey: New Positions in African Photography’ — an introduction

Friday Simon Njami & Sean O Toole - 20 Nov 2020

A new book examines the great flourishing of photography across the African continent

The Portfolio: Mário Macilau

Friday Sean O Toole - 20 Nov 2020

Mozambican photographer Mário Macilau uses performance and play to expand the meaning of his work

Rhode’s canvas: Westbury walls

Opinion Sean O Toole - 13 Dec 2019

An edited version of the essay 'Broken Wall: Robin Rhode’s Theatre of Place' from the book 'The Geometry of Colour' (Rhodeworks/Skira)

Senegalese artistic heritage gets a home

Article Sean O Toole - 20 Dec 2018

Conceived in the 1960s, shortly after independence, Senegal’s new Museum of Black Civilisations has finally been completed

The South Africans in Paris make most of ‘Being There’

Article Sean O Toole - 10 May 2017

Despite a major exhibition of art from the tip of Africa, post-apartheid painters are still largely ignored

All’s fair in art out of Africa

Article Sean O Toole - 24 Mar 2016

Sales are up due to the neo-neocolonial raid on contemporary art from the continent, thanks largely to the growing popularity of global art fairs.

Jettison the idea of a SA national pavilion in Venice

Article Sean O Toole - 17 Apr 2015

Sean O'Toole suggests taking a few pages out of Egypt's book and venture something brave for SA pavilion rather than big empty ideas.

Thabiso Sekgala: Suicide stills another rising star

Article Sean O Toole - 24 Oct 2014

Sean O'Toole mourns the loss of a talented young photographer who brought a tender and subtle touch to his searching images.

Schadeberg can’t beat the Drum years

Article Sean O Toole - 12 Sep 2014

An accomplished photographer in several parts of the world for six decades, he is still defined by his work in South Africa during the 1950s.

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Request for quotation – reviewing of 10 custom-designed sputum collection booths

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