A new collaboration sees a handful of fine artists joining up with local designers to create unique designer objects.
There has been little speculation about what changing depictions of the Western body in history may mean in Africa today.
Brett Bailey’s new work recreates the museums and spectacles in Europe to which millions of people flocked to see "inferior" darker races.
Mikhael Subotzky’s new film brings the personal lives of Grahamstown’s resident tour guides into the settler discourse.
Braamfontein’s trendy Juta Street shopping strip will be the site of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai’s launch into international art stardom.
An exhibition about the life and work of Barbara Tyrrell features her decorative, accurate visual recordings of Southern African costume.
The Post Office has drawn on a local artist to celebrate South Africa’s contribution to astronomy.
Mpho Moshe Matheolane reflects on Kannemeyer’s new show, which offers gentle, contemplative work, rather than the artist’s usual satirical attacks.
Although quite tight-lipped about the details, the gallery wants to create an inclusive history of art.
Rory Bester believes that the violent outrage at Brett Murray’s
painting of Jacob Zuma is as unsurprising as Murray’s work itself.
Obituary – Charlotte Schaer (1946 – 2012)
Owner of the Goodman Gallery, Liza Essers defends visual art’s ability to challenge and shape consciousness and to shift people’s hearts.
Brett Murray’s artwork has brought into sharp focus the issue of black people’s representation at the hands of whites, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
Some random cock and balls plonked onto a picture of the president does not good satire make, writes Matthew Partridge.
After the vast emptiness of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, Ai Weiwei this week filled a London space that could hardly be more of a contrast.
The festival has come from Frankfurt via Mali and deals with Âmigration through a focus on movement
at its most basic level.
The artist who gives landscape a voice has created a work that disturbs environmental complacency.
An African rights body has called on a Swedish minister to resign over her role in an art event that highlighted female genital mutilation and racism.
To tell you what Neil Le Roux’s monochrome work means appears to need a paradoxically massive vocabulary.
Naive painting is now all the rage and two artists’ work reveals what makes it work and what doesn’t.
A version of <em>The Scream</em>, one of the world’s most famous paintings, is expected to fetch at least $80-million at an auction next month.
Damien Hirst is the world’s richest artist, but the scales are falling from investors’ eyes.
Who better to open Hermann Niebuhr’s exhibition than a former city chief and one of his biggest fans?
"The most you can ask of art," Federico Freschi says with a glint in his eye,"is for it to alter your perceptions, even if for a nanosecond."
Nontobeko Ntombela, curator of contemporary art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), laughs about the idea of being considered a guinea pig.
Thato Mogotsi is something of an autodidact, a member of that tribe of people who opt out of the safe and sane precincts of formal Âeducation.
Clare Butcher believes that "the root of the word curate is to care".
Where does an independent curator fit into a South African art landscape that is split between commercial galleries and archival museums?
Portia Malatjie (26) insists that she never envisaged herself as a curator.
Visiting Nigerian conceptual artist Olaniyi "Akirash" Akindiya is one of those people with the uncanny ability to bore his way into any scene.
To this writer, comparing the creating of art to giving birth smacks of pre-modernist religious romanticism and teenage art angst.
A Burundian artist explores the relationship between refugees and their personal cargo.