Zizipho Poswa’s new series of ceramic works celebrates black women via an expressive abstract language
A public art team aims to roll back the squalor and spiritual deformity of downtown Johannesburg. Its latest project looks for meaning in a senseless murder
Has the notion of separating art from the artist evolved? The answer is personal and lies in the eyes, ears, and actions of audiences.
Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence
OUI Bar + KTCHN in Dunkeld has a youthful, but sophisticated, feel making it an ideal place for a business meeting or a lunch date with friends
Home – wherever or whoever that is – is a sanctuary, an escape from the outside world
The latest exhibition by Zeitz MOCAA’s Koyo Kouoh is a refreshing take on being black
Opened five years ago, Cape Town’s Zeitz Mocaa was once a storage building for grain
Art & Opulence-themed event will preview an new exhibition titled When We See Us
It was not only objects that were removed, knowledges — social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation —‚on the continent were destroyed
It is where curators and artists make grand gestures but, despite the wealth of talent in South Africa, our pavilion lacked punch
Ghanaian author Ken Kweku Nimo tells the story of the continent’s successful couturiers in his new book
Thebe Magugu keeps making headlines. The source of his success his country’s history and his own
Rare art, pottery, jewellery and watches with price tags in the millions to go under the hammer for Cape Town Auction Week
Visual artist Roger Ballen has a distinctive style that has evolved over a 50-year period
The experimental spirit of the modernist vanguards are leading the way for new ideas and reimagination.
David Otaru is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist canvassing his lived experiences in his upcoming exhibition ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’
Decades later, Mbongeni Ngema’s work still has life lessons for South Africans in these dark days for our democracy
Now in its 10th year, Joburg’s Turbine Art Fair moves to the Rosebank Oxford Park precinct to continue its commitment to showcasing new artists
‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban
Pandering to the art world is no longer a prerequisite for success. Zandile Tshabalala has proved this in the last two years by exhibiting abroad before coming home
This year’s National Arts Festival in Makhanda – the first live one since the pandemic – tackles unemployment, the Marikana Massacre and the manner in which black women in society are written about
The Springs Art Gallery presents the Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibition. It features original work of 25 artists commissioned by the Soweto Arts Company
Theatre on the Square The New Abnormal and Country Duty by award-winning playwright Mike van Graan
The season’s finale leaves our two reviewers wanting
Florida Road – where you’re immersed in all things that celebrate cultural craft – comes to KwaZulu-Natal for the first Arts Bar Festival.
With the invention of the cell phone, anyone can make a movie. With the creation of the 1-Minute Film Festival, anyone’s movie can be seen.
Mounou Désiré Koffi is bringing attention to the world’s e-waste menace by using dead cell phone keyboards in his art.
Congolese-born, South Africa-based artist Cinthia Sifa Mulanga collaborated with Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci in a tribute to the late Princess Diana
A new exhibition, When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women Artists, 1940-2000, held at the Norval Foundation, is a corrective to the previous systemic exclusion of Black women
Boitumelo Diseko has married her love of art and business by opening the B Artworks Gallery
The bulk of Sindiso Nyoni’s work involves brands. Making the concept translate is a tight balancing act