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.
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/ 30 November 2010
A round-up of the year’s most controversial art stories, including unfinished elephants and the lesbians loathed by Lulu.
At the end of a long, hot valley somewhere inland from Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast, one can find vines that are among the oldest in the country.
In a quiet moment it’s not hard to imagine the despair of slaves who once laboured at Robben Island.
Art critics, even occasional art critics like myself, are never allowed to utter the words: "I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like."
Percy Zvomuya checks out artist and former curator Thembinkosi Goniwe’s impressive collection of art at his home in Orange Grove.
We swung through the <em>M&G</em> newsroom to see who owns what and discovered that, if combined, our staff could hold a respectable exhibition.
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/ 5 February 2010
Ricky Burnett pays tribute to an artist whose life exemplified the energy in his creations
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/ 21 January 2010
Our top art and entertainment picks for this week and beyond
The buzz around the 2010 World Cup has made its way into art.
Jeremy Kuper speaks to Edward Glennon, life partner of the late Albert Adams, about the artist’s conflicted feelings for the land of his birth.
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/ 12 February 2009
The auction of Brett Kebble’s collection could fetch R100-million, writes Anthea Buys.
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/ 16 January 2009
In a project started late last year Iraqi artists are taking objects that have brought devastation to Iraq and using them to create instead.
Naoshima was once just another volcanic island dotted in the calm, blue waters of Japan, but it achieved star status late last century.
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/ 23 October 2008
One of the most surprising developments of 2008 is Monkey: Journey to the West, an opera based on a 16th-century Chinese fable.
Artist Gerhard Marx has won his battle against BMW SA over the company’s use, in an advertising campaign, of road-map fragments pioneered in his work.
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/ 10 September 2008
A Pierneef painting set a new record price for SA art at an auction in London when it sold for more than R11-million, the auctioneers said.
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/ 10 September 2008
Unlike other hobbies, collecting art can create a long-term asset base of great value.
Athens’s new museum is spectacular, even without its star exhibits. Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview.
Imagine being a leader in your field for more than 60 years. Imagine exchanging ideas with the artistic greats of the past half-century.