The Faces of War exhibition takes domestic violence out of the shadows.
The magnificent Keiskamma Tapestry is a masterpiece by people reclaiming their lives.
A Cape Town landmark will soon become a major international
museum that will focus primarily on work of African origin.
The Art History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand produces its first Wits History of Art portfolio.
Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi’s exhibition "(Alice) Adama in Wonderland" draws on his fascination with Johannesburg and Africa’s megacities.
To mark 16 Days of Activism, Human Rights Watch has released a documentary about the work of LGBTI activist and award-winning artist Zanele Muholi.
In the fashion of great African studio photographers, Lakin Ogunbanwo tears down and rebuilds portraiture in his own image, writes Stefanie Jason.
The poet Makhafula Vilakazi lays bare and rejects the sorry conditions that govern life on the margins.
Cornelius Gurlitt, who reportedly hid stolen masterpieces in his flat, has been spotted alive as more lost art is being found at his brother in law.
The discovery in a rubbish-strewn German flat of nearly 1 500 paintings looted by Nazis has sparked urgent calls to hunt for their rightful owners.
Donna Kukama is tired of the gallery space — but she intends to stay inside the system and to make the most of it by subverting it.
Donna Kukama – winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Performance Art – speaks to the M&G about breaking a leg and "being f***ing real".
We asked four people involved in the arts the important question:
David Goldblatt is the featured artist at this year’s Johannesburg Art Fair. He is showing work under the title The Frock and Other Pictures.
South African artist Ruan Hoffmann’s recent residency at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam was an opportunity to get away, for a while.
A painting stored in an attic because it was considered a fake is the work of Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh, says a museum, citing new research.
Bronwyn Lace breathes new meaning into ?the detritus of ?once-living things.
Artist Ayana V Jackson has caused controversy with her latest work, ‘Archival Impulse & Poverty Pornography’. We ask her the difficult questions.
We went on a walkabout of Standard Bank’s new Jo’burg office to answer that question and bumped into featured artist Marco Cianfanelli.
The Sex Actually festival brings youngsters closer to the real issues they engage with daily, and nightly.
A relic of Doornfontein’s industrial past, August House is home to some of South Africa’s top artists.
VIDEO: Nadine Mckenzie is a dance teacher who is proving that ability lies in the mind, not just the body. She is an M&G 200 Young South African.
The arts world has rallied around artist Diane Victor, who is trying to raise funds for her life-saving kidney surgery, by having an art auction.
We meet the curator and several sculptors currently exhibiting at the Nirox sculpture park. Trust us, you won’t want to miss this.
Terry Kurgan talks about her mid-career retrospective, including <em>Hotel Yeoville</em>, her most controversial photos and Joubert Park’s photographers.
From minibus taxis to the Gautrain, the Goethe Institute’s SPINES festival explores public and private spaces in Jo’burg.
M&G arts editor Matthew Krouse picks the brains of five winners of the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards.
He may be the best watercolourist South Africa has ever seen, but Durant Sihlali went largely uncelebrated during his lifetime, writes Phillip de Wet.
Soweto’s great art ‘rip-off’ – Late artist Durant Sihlali’s family is in a bitter dispute with ex-SABC lawyer Mafika Sihlali over his art collection.
Using art as a nation-building tool? South Africans first need to address the way they speak to one another, argues Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Sean O’Toole explores some of the portrayals of the naked black body that have elicited fierce reactions in SA’s recent past.
Grade 11s explored their creative side and developed national pride at this year’s Sasol Schools Festival.