Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself
An exhibition of drawings invites viewers to explore the fluidity of space and the art of deep seeing
Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
Exhibition tells of celestial bodies and space travel, of visibility and invisibility
The Tomorrows/Today exhibition includes tapestries by Talia Ramkilawan, sculptures by Githan Coopoo and Joanna Choumali’s embroidered images
Thebe Magugu keeps making headlines. The source of his success his country’s history and his own
Ravelle Pillay pictures a space outside of time, where narratives of indentured labour are hidden, morphed, revealed and transformed to painterly ends
The success of galleries owned and run by the artists themselves has led to a re-examination of the business of art
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“The photographs in the series act as a symbol of, or a witness to, the economic imbalance that exists in contemporary South Africa, where people increasingly inhabit contrasting economic realities.”
Soft power is often felt and almost always unseen. As a concept introduced by Joseph Nye in the early 1980s, soft power is thought of as a specific ability to get what you want. The ability to get what you want can be facilitated through coercion and payment (hard power) or attraction and persuasion (soft […]
The solo show by Sam Nhlengethwa explores the many sites and scenes of the city, caught in a loop of ambition and horror
There’s no Table Mountain in Jozi, but there are amazing art spaces
The renowned photographer passed away in the early hours of Monday morning.
Grada Kilomba’s work traces the history of the black diaspora, exploring difference but also finding sameness
"I definitely wanted to be in a space of curating as a tool to tell visual stories but I also felt like I needed a lot more theoretical backing.”
The Goodman Gallery’s second edition of ‘South-South’ floods the senses when it comes to scale.
Opening of In Context: Africans in America at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, November 17 2016.
Mthembu offers little explanation: "This is not a, ‘we give you our cultural capital’. This is ‘are you credible enough to have this conversation?’."
Never obvious, photographer David Goldblatt’s landscapes are elegiac, silent – and monumental, writes Melvyn Minnaar.
Frances Goodman is sanguine about giving territory and feminine identity the finger(nail) in a bold new exhibition.
The Faces of War exhibition takes domestic violence out of the shadows.
The Film and Publications Board cannot ban online images, an appeal tribunal told it this week.
A ruling on the classification of "The Spear" artwork has been overturned by the Film and Publications Board’s (FPB) Appeal Tribunal.
The Goodman Gallery has lodged papers with the Film and Publications Board Appeal Tribunal in an attempt to overturn the 16N rating of "The Spear".
The Goodman Gallery has appealed a ruling that children should be protected from the ‘Spear’ painting, saying the FPB does not have the authority.
The Goodman Gallery and the ANC have agreed to make amends in an aim to end the furore surrounding the controversial painting.
While meeting over "The Spear", the Film and Publications Board has astonishingly seemed to imply it is obliged to suppress political criticism.