The South African artist’s new film about a rape challenges the curators and concepts of art
It is not surprising that so many Capetonians were distraught about the collapse of the Athlone Power Station’s two cooling towers in 2010.
A new collaboration sees a handful of fine artists joining up with local designers to create unique designer objects.
Anthea Buys was surprised that only two audience members walked out of the opening performance of Steven Cohen’s Cradle of Humankind.
Mikhael Subotzky’s new film brings the personal lives of Grahamstown’s resident tour guides into the settler discourse.
Riding a bicycle as a simpler, more efficient way to travel? Not in Cape Town, writes Anthea Buys.
A Norwegian artists’ collective will be invading the streets of Braamfontein.
Seldom do local commercial galleries rummage through their storerooms to put on exhibitions.
Donna Kukama positions her works as embodiements of intersubjective difference.
Seldom do exhibitions curated as a footnote to conferences stimulate any more interest than the conferences themselves do.
Brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana, who make up the industrial design duo Estúdio Campana, have an eye for junk.
As an accompaniment to a conference titled Space, Ritual Absence, which takes place at FADA from March 9 – 11, the FADA gallery hosts an exhibition by the same name.
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/ 25 February 2011
Tracy Rose’s Waiting for God Rose goes far beyond mere provocation.
Parts of the Keleketla! Library at the historic Drill Hall in Joubert Park have on several occasions been wheeled out onto the street.
A number of young South African artists, including the prodigy Nicholas Hlobo, are making waves in the international art world.
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/ 14 December 2010
This is the last week of action in Johannesburg’s art scene, with most of the city’s art galleries closing from December 15 until mid-January.
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/ 10 December 2010
One of the relatively few joys of remaining in Johannesburg over the festive season are that the streets are virtually empty.
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/ 5 November 2010
After an intense run of international exhibitions and residencies, Cape Town based artist James Webb opens his first two solo exhibitions in Jo’burg.
With the slogan "The Heart of Fashion", the
SA Fashion Week programme set out to demonstrate a fundamental connection between art and fashion.
David Goldblatt’s newest solo exhibition opens this week.
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/ 28 September 2010
Penny Siopis’s new show combines video installation and glue-and-ink paintings to harrowing effect.
The paradoxical beauty of a mohair blanket is that it is both cool enough to endure in summer and is the solution to the winter chill.
Made of 3mm-thick acrylic, the Illusion table resembles a large square tablecloth covering a round side table.
Ever wanted to look inside a curator’s head?
Interior designer Katie Thompson’s studio, a converted house in Observatory, Cape Town, is packed floor to ceiling with junk.
Johannesburg’s skyline has long captured the imagination of city dwellers and sojourners alike.
Long before the advent of espresso machines, coffee plungers and other high-speed caffeine solutions, racing-car teapots were all the rage.
12 Decades, Johannesburg’s first art hotel, commissioned 12 designers each to create a room with a theme based on a decade in the city’s history.
Triangle Man is unique among all Temori dolls, a diminutive race of hand-stitched patchwork creatures with origins in South Korea.
If the analogue camera has had its day, then the plastic point-and-shoot — the caveman of modern photo equipment — is practically a museum relic.
A genuine royal Kente cloth is extremely difficult to get hold of but this winter one has found its way to Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton.