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Open Studios Joburg: Art for inner-city explorers
In the past few decades the Johannesburg inner city, like many urban centres worldwide, has become home to painters, photographers, printers and their imaginative brethren. In…
Lebogang Mabusela: Gunz and Makoti bridal technologies
The artist deftly navigates sexist roadblocks and patriarchal potholes with Johannesburg tools: walks and weapons
Façade reveals Jozi’s entrails
Happy Dhlame’s gritty exhibition weighs up the human cost of gentrification in the city
August House: The home of Jozi’s rising sons and daughters
Officially relaunching during this Art Week Joburg, the artist’s residency is full of history and a place for those long on vision but short of cash.
Urban renewal’s bourgeois curse
As rental prices go up and neighbourhoods begin to look the same, artists nationwide are finding themselves out in the cold.
Suburban dreams
Percy Zvomuya speaks to visual artist Mary Sibande about freedom, politics and alter egos.