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riting’s on the wall: A mural at a vigil for George Floyd on 25 May , two years after he was killed by Minneapolis police.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Black History Month: What is there to embrace?

The sanitising of Martin Luther King’s legacy sustains the racial violence in the United States

  • Kim M Reynolds
13 min read
The Wisdom of the Elders. (Courtesy of FNB Art Joburg)
AFRICA

Wycliffe Mundopa: ‘I think the idea of beauty as a kind of grace and finesse is a Eurocentric notion’

Award-winning Zimbabwean painter Wycliffe Mundopa has a reputation as a recluse who prefers to let his art speak for itself. However, he recently agreed to do this Q&A with Percy…

  • Percy Mabandu
8 min read
Blankets, Boitumelo Motau
BLANKETS

The Portfolio: Boitumelo Motau on capturing a moment

Even in revisiting the space, I can never capture the moment, as if it were sucked into my camera when I pressed the shutter, muses Boitumelo Motau

  • Boitumelo Motau
2 min read
Joseph Ndandarika, who was once described as one of the three greatest living stone sculptors. (Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe)
AFRICAN ART

In praise of African art: How Shona sculpting emerged

How Shona stone art came into its own after independence

  • Percy Zvomuya
35 min read