Creator
Sean O Toole
Sean O’Toole is writer and editor based in Cape Town. He has published two books, Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa (2020) and The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories (2006), as well as edited three volumes of essays, most recently The Journey: New Positions on African Photography (2020). His essays, cultural journalism and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times.
The sea takes, the stage remembers
Production is a poetic, immersive elegy which turns loss at sea into theatre’s most powerful tide
A reshoot of Ernest Cole
Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself
Art that flows between the rivers and into the sea
Thoughtful, literary exhibition gathers works by 12 artists from across the globe
The sculptures where nothing is true and everything is permitted
Recent shows by the sculptors Nolan Oswald Dennis, Vusumzi Nkomo and Diana Vives make for fascinating viewing
Challenge Met, says New York art museum director
Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art talks about art on the African continent
Conflict, migration exposed
Alfredo Jaar’s photo exhibition is of Rwandan, Sudanese, Afghani and Vietnamese refugees
Tretchi, the original meme artist, enjoys lift off at auction
Passion, profit, prestige … the popularity of ‘the people’s artist’ endures, despite his work being rejected as kitsch
Driven to protest for Palestine
‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
Kentridge comes up for air in Cape Town
The renowned artist talks about inspiration, ideas, history and his new exhibition
The art of cultural crosscurrents
Artists and exhibitions show the connections between Mexico and South Africa
Fuelled, fed, nourished by Joburg
French new media artist Tabita Rezaire says time in South Africa helped to heal her
‘Slaghuis’ exhibition revisits a harsh place
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s photographed photos of the family’s tavern prepared him for today
Strachan: ‘An alien operating in the art world’
Exhibition tells of celestial bodies and space travel, of visibility and invisibility
Split does nothing to slow down artist
Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever
Brett Seiler: Men, bitumen and the art of hustling
The Harare-born artist on his journey from hipster in a dress to the embodiment of the zeitgeist