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
When we think about sustainability in the arts, do we think (enough) about art writers? They are everywhere and yet often invisible. Their names appear in small print beneath or alongside the artists they cover in catalogues, papers and magazines. Their work can be found on a thin sheet of paper handed out to visitors […]
Award-winning Zimbabwean painter Wycliffe Mundopa has a reputation as a recluse who prefers to let his art speak for itself. However, he recently agreed to do this Q&A with Percy Mabandu
However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture
The artist reflects on the homecoming of his exhibition, and how it interacts with the gallery and its environment
The artist deftly navigates sexist roadblocks and patriarchal potholes with Johannesburg tools: walks and weapons
A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art
In an art system committed to emphatic figuration and digital evanescence, aspects of Dale Lawrence’s work can seem slightly outmoded — cool, but retro
‘Liminality’ is a buzz word in art speak, but does the current Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition go far enough in meaningfully unpacking it?
Here is a recap of disputes over artefacts looted from Europe’s former African colonies.
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography
Dr Zolelwa Sifumba went from being a frontline healthcare worker to stepping back from clinical work. She speaks to Elna Schütz about her shift into more open spaces
FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces
iwalewabooks offers artists, cultural workers and academics a roving space to explore aesthetic and intellectually rigorous modes of publishing
The artist Nakhane is fatigued by the idea that lifestyle choices are ‘other people’s business’
Tshepiso Moropa used her parents’ marriage as inspiration for her latest collage, titled Til Death Do Us Apart
Senzo Shabangu’s solo exhibition, showing as part of the National Arts Festival, interrogates the contradictions of   life in Makhanda
Once we have borne the brunt of what has happened to us, we must decide to begin again and change ourselves
The artist is associated with printmaking, but he wants us to remember that it all starts with a drawing
The group exhibition at SMAC gallery, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, revisited the chromatic and social properties of blackness in contemporary South African visual art
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
Loyiso Mkize talks to Bongekile Macupe about joining the DC Universe, the influence of his parents and teachers, and getting up more than falling down
A retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Gallery offers a snapshot in time
A virtual retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Art Gallery offer a snapshot in time
An exhibition of Matthew Krouse’s underground films reveal an agitator awed by the tradition of ‘dirty queens’
Emanating from years spent behind the wheel, the artist’s style is part memory, part imagination