Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at
The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing
An exhibition of Matthew Krouse’s underground films reveal an agitator awed by the tradition of ‘dirty queens’
A new book examines the great flourishing of photography across the African continent
Mozambican photographer Mário Macilau uses performance and play to expand the meaning of his work
An edited version of the essay ‘Broken Wall: Robin Rhode’s Theatre of Place’ from the book ‘The Geometry of Colour’ (Rhodeworks/Skira)
Conceived in the 1960s, shortly after independence, Senegal’s new Museum of Black Civilisations has finally been completed
Despite a major exhibition of art from the tip of Africa, post-apartheid painters are still largely ignored
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.
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.