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/ 29 November 2011
The exhibition of a student artist has been pulled from a Franschhoek gallery after she posed nude and tore pages from a Bible.
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/ 23 November 2011
Award-winning author <b>Lauren Beukes</b> visits the art exhibition inspired by her novel.
A massive restoration project is giving valuable artworks housed in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court a new lease on life.
An art exhibition running alongside COP17 in
Durban builds a poetic, not evangelical, message.
<b>Mario Pissarra</b> explains how an ambitious project has set a new standard for dealing with competing art histories.
Kudzanai Chiurai’s new exhibition generalises about the horrific abuses in failed African states — and that’s part of its problem.
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/ 8 November 2011
Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj subverts Western notions of how Arab women should look and behave.
A new travelling exhibition attempts to uncover "lost" South African art — art that is unknown in its own home.
Award-winning artist Michael MacGarry’s exhibition uses parody to slice through layers of meaning.
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/ 25 October 2011
Some people need art — not pretentious elite art that is up its own backside — but art that recovers meaning, that calls back the soul.
An exhibition featuring works by about 60 artists reveals the magnificant beasts in their many facets.
Environmental art exhibition aims to provoke us to reflect by avoiding the usual noisy proselytising.
London’s National Portrait Gallery will stage a major Lucian Freud exhibition next spring which the artist collaborated on up until his death in July.
A new exhibition at the Tate Modern in London challenges and subverts the way in which African cultural narratives are constructed.
Willem Boshoff’s self-assigned role as a druid gives him the space to take on major social issues.
In some cases the readiness to inflict one’s dearth of artistic talent on a helpless world may be a sign of far worse things to come.
<i>Dancing with Dada</i> as the start of a large-scale collaboration between someone who can move well and someone who can’t move at all.
Every object tells a story, and none more so than the exhibits donated to Croatia’s Museum of Broken Relationships.
Despite a lack of training, equipment, funding or an audience, two artists are determined to succeed as film directors.
Nando’s has embarked on a drive to expose its patrons to creative juices.
Ian Grose has won the 2011 Absa L’Atelier Art Award, and Isabel Mertz has been awarded the 2011 Gerard Sekoto Award.
This diverse collection of essays is a gauge of what’s hot and not in the contemporary art scene.
A new Walter Battiss exhibition that includes never-seen drawings brings in millions — and makes interesting links.
When Alan Crump passed away he left behind a legacy of committed engagement with the SA art world. An exhibition celebrates his vision.
Nandipha Mntambo’s exhibition at the National Arts Festival continues her fascination with the cow (and bull) as a subject and motif.
Michael MacGarry’s new solo show is sharp-witted and playful, but also just serious enough to be startlingly poignant.
Recasting images in the public domain to
deliver a message contrary to the originals is
misappropriation, writes <b>Judy Seidman</b>.
The artist Beezy Bailey is perhaps best known for having staged a hoax in the local art world. But everyone knows that he lends a critical voice.
Artist Cecil Skotnes had an ‘extra-ordinary appetite for enjoyment’. Vital to this was his profound love of wine.
Anish Kapoor this week dedicated his largest artwork ever to the missing Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei.
Terry Kurgan’s <i>Still Life</i> make interesting points about the nature of perception, memory and transitive meaning.
<i>Nechama Brodie</i> discovers the strange
alchemy of bone, stone, paper, paint and dust.