Rapper, producer, designer and ardent DOOM fan ByLwansta shares the influence the masked villain had on his craft
Hip-hop auteur Daniel Dumile’s rapping was fuelled by a remarkable erudition, his multiple characters broaching diverse topics with a beguilling playfulness
To combat anxiety in a disrupted, pandemic-riddled world, it’s better to channel creativity into storytelling, art and design than into conspiracy theories
Scott Eric Williams’s new art project challenges our ideas of mapping, moving into philosophical territory
From ballet, to art exhibitions to podcasts, there’s plenty on offer in the cultural world to capture your attention this weekend
Lesiba Mabitsela’s multidisciplinary project interrogates the influence of modernity through examining the intersections between fashion and architecture
From art exhibitions to live jazz, we’ve got your weekend programming sorted
The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall
From art exhibitions to film festivals, we’ve got your entertainment covered this weekend to the next
From live music by the Reza Khota Quartet in Gugulethu to J.Bo’s live, online event, there’s plenty of culture to keep you entertained
Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism
Vick Bester, Pebofatso Mokoena and Jade Palmer, this year’s Wits Young Artist Award winners, each engage with with the particularities of the places where they live, inviting us in to their personal spaces
A survey of Jackson Hlungwani’s practice presents a transcendental experience, even for non-believers
‘There are Mechanisms in Place’, comprising text, poetry and visual analysis of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s practice, reveals how working together is a powerful philosophy
Artist Levy Pooe conceptualises his work as ‘a social diary of being black in the city’
‘There Are Mechanisms in Place’ posits that the all-encompassing physicality of the landscape does not reference an ‘abstract’ danger, but one that is created by both nature and human design
Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest exhibition, ‘Interior/Exterior/ Dramatis Personae’, takes his characters on transformative journeys
Congolese photographer Sammy Baloji’s Essay on Urban Planning interrogates the links between colonialism, extractive practices and environmental catastrophes in Urban Africa
Animator, roboticist and artist David Phume is on a mission to show that technology is not just for the geniuses in Silicon Valley
Black women and trans artists are worthy of support but it should not come with terms and restrictions
The artist is drawn to collage because it allows her to be as complex and layered as she wants to be
Talia Ramkilawan uses rug hooking to create her portraits, which aim to subvert trauma
The artist shares how his practice has evolved: initially he was an oil painter, but now he works in mixed media, marrying painting with collage
Now is the time to examine how reproductive health in South Africa is riddled by inequities based on race and class
During the lockdown, artists must rethink their place in the system. Now is the chance to advocate and appreciate the human condition of being constantly and chaotically in flux
Sperm washing, assisted insemination and long hospital waits – if you were lucky. But things are changing for the better
South Africa’s next chapter in HIV treatment holds amazing promise, but unlocking it rests on having the right kind of discussions with women
Two art exhibitions reveal the intimate relationship between one of South Africa’s great modernists and the city of his life
It’s an unloved, rusted old factory. But I fell in love with the amount of empty space and the possibilities of what we can do with it
‘Clearly emotional, it soon became clear that she had come to see me more as a psychologist than an artist’
The politics of art aren’t always discovered in the confines of the art industry and its institutions
When art takes on the fragility of an identity styled by the weathered designs of white masculinity