Bongani Madondo remembers Koyo Kouoh as an activist and a community worker — and curator of collective futures
Ernest Cole’s lens captured apartheid’s truth and his legacy continues to shape creatives today
Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week
Your essential dose of art and culture
Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art talks about art on the African continent
Your essential dose of art and culture
CAFT aims to foster an ongoing dialogue among artists and enthusiasts
What does it mean to be African in the contemporary art world?
The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality
Ghanaian author Ken Kweku Nimo tells the story of the continent’s successful couturiers in his new book
Open City is a celebration of art, music, fashion and food from the inner city to Rosebank and Sandton
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home
As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution
Although forgery is a global problem, black South African modernists now face double exploitation
The world-renowned artist is being introduced to audiences with his latest exhibition ‘Meyina’
"As artists then, maybe it is time we seriously consider how better to strengthen synergies with our siblings on the continent."
South Africa’s art economy is lucrative, drawing international buyers.
The Cameroonian artist’s preoccupation is our relation to one another as global citizens.
The themes of religion, gender and global capital reflect in the artworks that draw on literary references, myths and symbols.
There is nothing alien about creative people being capable of making and managing money.
An exhibit of African identity featuring continental and diasporic artists such as Lerato Shadi, Felix Mula and Louis Kakudi.
Few South African art-lovers will recognise her name, but Nita Spilhaus’s work from the 1920s is like a breath of fresh air, writes Robyn Sassen
The Mail & Guardian speaks to African Flavour Books owner Fortescue Helepi at the Time of the Writer festival hosted in Durban this week.
Mwande ka Zenzile draws on his heritage to challenge the imperialism of the West and to illustrate the effect it has had on African life.
An exhibition touring the US brings together contemporary artists using the ancient form of masquerade to explore issues such as self-realisation.
A group exhibition now on in Cape Town puts a selection of works by different artists together, and also allows for inspiring collaborations.
How can western ‘universal’ museums acquire and display artefacts without stoking the illegal arts trade and reproducing colonialist narratives?
Young South African artists are up there with Sekoto and Stern as hot international property.
Mohau Modisakeng’s work reflects on violence and race, not in an autobiographical sense, but in terms of black existentiality.
The collection of a young man who ?courted danger across the continent, Nicholas Penny, is to be sold as "tribal art".