Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks
What does it mean to truly take your time? Artist shows us through a devotion to detail that transforms everyday materials into meditations on life, loss and transformation
Brett Murray speaks about the shift in the work that appears on his new exhibition
Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever
The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality
Visual artist Roger Ballen has a distinctive style that has evolved over a 50-year period
‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban
A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
Nothando Nyathi always associated baking with happiness and she knew that her creations would bring joy to many others, including her son
A survey of Jackson Hlungwani’s practice presents a transcendental experience, even for non-believers
Artist Dada Khanyisa on responding to the opportunities that their practice offers them, by all means necessary
Although the artist is starting a whole new conversation, he picks up on threads from his earlier shows and expands on them.
Instead of overanalysing the context from which these Limpopo artworks sprung, we should enjoy them for their individual merits.
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/ 27 November 2014
For many hoping to see their work placed in the public sphere, the easy route seems to be an approach of "play-play".
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/ 13 November 2014
A new sculpture that neatly aligns commercial interests with art and our history has the twitterati frothing about apparent opportunism.
For Meleko Mokgosi, painting – as an act, object and commodity – is always political. And his approach to his work is unrelentlingly uncompromising.
A young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina.
Institutions need to engage more rigorously with "rural" artists such as Johannes Segogela and Jackson Hlungwani, writes Same Mdluli.
Frances Goodman is sanguine about giving territory and feminine identity the finger(nail) in a bold new exhibition.
Some South Africans have taken to Twitter in an attempt to save the rabbit etched in the statue of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings.
What’s waiting for you at this year’s FNB Jo’burg Art Fair? We get a sneak preview of the weekend ahead and chat to curators and artists.
Senzo Shabangu is going solo for the first time and his incursions into sculpture are going along for the ride.
Norman Catherine’s introspective works leave room to wonder about the artist’s state of mind in the current South Africa.
We meet the curator and several sculptors currently exhibiting at the Nirox sculpture park. Trust us, you won’t want to miss this.
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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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/ 30 October 2009
Sculptor Barend de Wet recently won the World Yo-Yo Championship, and is building up to his first serious exhibition.
A Russian town plans to unveil a monument that shows a man’s hand gripping a nubile female breast.
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