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Visual Arts

Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground
Friday
/ 10 June 2025

Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground

An experimental creative space in the heart of Sandton, Standard Bank’s new Art Lab redefines how everyday audiences experience and engage with art

By Lesego Chepape
Arts & Culture Trust Nyoloha Scholarship Programme applications close 30 March
Friday
/ 24 March 2025

Arts & Culture Trust Nyoloha Scholarship Programme applications close 30 March

Press release: The ACT Nyoloha Scholarship offers up to R300 000 for young South African artists

By Arts & Culture Trust
Diary: Usha Seejarim at Southern Guild, Zoë Modiga empowers her voice, Onset Music Group releases Voicenote
Friday
/ 7 March 2025

Diary: Usha Seejarim at Southern Guild, Zoë Modiga empowers her voice, Onset Music Group releases Voicenote

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Bafana Zembe has no hang-ups about his job
Friday
/ 19 February 2025

Bafana Zembe has no hang-ups about his job

Behind every work on a gallery wall is someone like the unsung art installer

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Lusanda Ndita crowned, history through fashion, SA Clay Awards at Rust-en-Vrede
Friday
/ 22 November 2024

Diary: Lusanda Ndita crowned, history through fashion, SA Clay Awards at Rust-en-Vrede

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Inner Sanctum at Everard Read, HandmadeAfrica market, Inclusive Dance Festival 2024
Friday
/ 18 November 2024

Diary: Inner Sanctum at Everard Read, HandmadeAfrica market, Inclusive Dance Festival 2024

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Phumulani Ntuli to showcase new exhibition at the UJ Art Gallery, Turn On The Subtitles launches in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor brings 1994 box office throwbacks
Friday
/ 11 October 2024

Diary: Phumulani Ntuli to showcase new exhibition at the UJ Art Gallery, Turn On The Subtitles launches in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor brings 1994 box office throwbacks

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Design Week South Africa kicks off, African Women artists shine in London, look out for the inaugural Hazendal Festival
Friday
/ 4 October 2024

Diary: Design Week South Africa kicks off, African Women artists shine in London, look out for the inaugural Hazendal Festival

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Joburg Ballet comes to Cape Town, Phillemon Hlungwani to showcase at Everard Read gallery, jazz at the UKZN Centre for Jazz and Popular Music
Friday
/ 27 September 2024

Diary: Joburg Ballet comes to Cape Town, Phillemon Hlungwani to showcase at Everard Read gallery, jazz at the UKZN Centre for Jazz and Popular Music

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Generation of Hope,  Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible
Friday
/ 13 September 2024

Diary: Generation of Hope, Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Stephen Hobbs: Of man-made forests and the hidden work of fungi
Friday
/ 29 August 2024

Stephen Hobbs: Of man-made forests and the hidden work of fungi

Exhibition delves into the connections and balance between urban life and nature

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Stephané Edith Conradie’s exhibition opens at the Standard Bank Gallery, Poetry Africa returns in October,  Fizzy B releases Abahlali
Friday
/ 29 August 2024

Diary: Stephané Edith Conradie’s exhibition opens at the Standard Bank Gallery, Poetry Africa returns in October,  Fizzy B releases Abahlali

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Baz-Art celebrates women muralists, bringing jazz to Durban, ZiiBeats vol. 2 drops
Friday
/ 9 August 2024

Diary: Baz-Art celebrates women muralists, bringing jazz to Durban, ZiiBeats vol. 2 drops

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN
Friday
/ 5 August 2024

Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
‘We killed it with our doccie’
Friday
/ 15 July 2024

‘We killed it with our doccie’

Youngsters’ film about Thokoza gets an enthusiastic reception at a festival in Portugal

By Tebadi Mmotla
Stephané Conradie: Objects of our lives as signposts for the future
Friday
/ 21 June 2024

Stephané Conradie: Objects of our lives as signposts for the future

Artist transforms everyday objects as into poignant narratives exploring identity and heritage

By Lesego Chepape
Basha Uhuru under the theme 30 years of creative freedom, Dates for Joburg Art Fair, With-Out Limits at UJ
Friday
/ 21 June 2024

Basha Uhuru under the theme 30 years of creative freedom, Dates for Joburg Art Fair, With-Out Limits at UJ

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape and Charles Leonard
The stage is set for a cracker of a National Arts Festival 
Friday
/ 18 June 2024

The stage is set for a cracker of a National Arts Festival 

National Arts Festival continues to create platforms for creatives, 50 years later

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Kesivan in the Cape, Boundless at Kalashnikov,  and Stogie T headlines Fête de la Musique
Friday
/ 13 June 2024

Diary: Kesivan in the Cape, Boundless at Kalashnikov, and Stogie T headlines Fête de la Musique

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape and Charles Leonard
Internationally acclaimed photographer Lebohang Kganye exhibits locally
Friday
/ 12 March 2024

Internationally acclaimed photographer Lebohang Kganye exhibits locally

The show is in two parts – sculptures outdoors and artworks in Boschendal’s Manor House

By Lesego Chepape
Spotlight on new faces of Nigeria’s art scene
Friday
/ 3 August 2022

Spotlight on new faces of Nigeria’s art scene

David Otaru is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist canvassing his lived experiences in his upcoming exhibition ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’

By Elvis Kachi
Art and about: 10 art fairs not to miss
Article
/ 28 January 2015

Art and about: 10 art fairs not to miss

With the local art fair season about to kick off, we highlight some of the country’s – and Africa’s – most happening visual art events.

By stefanie jason
Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too
Article
/ 6 February 2014

Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too

Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.

By Bongani Madondo
Art collecting with Albie Sachs
Article
/ 6 February 2014

Art collecting with Albie Sachs

Former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs is bound to art and politics by love and lineage. He chats about this and his years of art collecting.

By stefanie jason
An artist who lived to dispel the dark arts
Article
/ 30 January 2014

An artist who lived to dispel the dark arts

Shunned by the serious arts establishment, ?Paul du Toit embraced the naive and innocent.

By Staff Reporter
The beauty of life after death
Article
/ 5 September 2013

The beauty of life after death

Bronwyn Lace breathes new meaning into ?the detritus of ?once-living things.

By Laurice Taitz
Mongezi Ncaphayi: Striking art is his raison d’être
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Mongezi Ncaphayi: Striking art is his raison d’être

Award-winning artist Mongezi Ncaphayi draws his audience in, hooking them in to a deeper reflection.

By Matthew Krouse
Thing of beauty: We Love Mandela exhibition
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Thing of beauty: We Love Mandela exhibition

SA artists have used the figure of Nelson Mandela as their muse and metaphor, depicting the many sides of the man people believe they know well.

By Matthew Krouse and Lauren Clifford-Holmes
Absa L’Atelier Awards: Cruel jokes and abstract lives
Article
/ 19 July 2013

Absa L’Atelier Awards: Cruel jokes and abstract lives

The Absa L’Atelier Awards are highly prized by young artists who may not have the resource to go abroad.

By Matthew Krouse
3D-printing takes art into another dimension
Article
/ 5 July 2013

3D-printing takes art into another dimension

An exhibition opening at the University of Johannesburg aims to bring the 3D-printing movement into the public conversation.

By Sarah Wild
Tate Modern opens doors to African visionaries
Article
/ 2 July 2013

Tate Modern opens doors to African visionaries

Exhibitions of works by artists from Sudan and Benin have reflected a step change towards Tate’s more globalised view of modern art.

By Jonathan Jones
Thing of beauty: Art in the city
Article
/ 28 June 2013

Thing of beauty: Art in the city

Hannelie Coetzee’s work spills out of her studio and into the surrounding streets.

By Laurice Taitz
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