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 migration 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."
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 education.
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.
Nontobeko Ntombela, curator of contemporary art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), laughs about the idea of being considered a guinea pig.
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.
A South African artist chose the workers as his subjects during his residency at London’s Olympic Park.
Viviane Sassen explores the spaces between home and away, night and day, life and dreams.
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/ 3 February 2012
Artist Candice Breitz is using the popular soapie <i>Generations</i> to further the racial debate in South Africa.
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/ 31 January 2012
The artist said he had been beaten up at his gallery by five men over nude paintings that the attackers claimed were an insult to the country.
It has taken eight years and more than one million Madagascar golden orb spiders to create a work of art.
Institution faces a funding crisis that could result in priceless works in its storerooms getting damaged.
Deciding what constitutes a South African heritage work of art seems to be a guessing game.
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/ 18 January 2012
Innovative and edgy work attracts attention around the world — and record prices at auction
Art collector <b>Charles Saatchi</b> writes about the new, super-rich, vulgar and depressingly shallow art-buying crowd.
In his latest show, <em>Fucking Hell</em>, at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town, Cameron Platter exhibits new drawings.
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/ 8 December 2011
Five young artists are gaining valuable artistic and business skills near Mandela’s childhood home.
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/ 6 December 2011
Scottish artist Martin Boyce, whose works include a modernist reworking of a library table and artificial trees, has won Britain’s Turner Prize.
Many will rejoice if Julius retires from the public eye, but writers, satirists, playwrights and cartoonists will lose a rich source of inspiration.