Art Galleries
latest news & developmentsNine Yards is reimagining slow living in Joburg
A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience
Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society
Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community
Portfolio: Boitumelo Diseko, artist and gallerist
Boitumelo Diseko has married her love of art and business by opening the B Artworks Gallery
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall
‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography
Open City: The art of invading Jo’burg
FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces
The Portfolio: John Phalane’s art ‘gives me a sense of being myself’
Emanating from years spent behind the wheel, the artist’s style is part memory, part imagination
Chichu Art Museum: ‘A site to rethink the relationship between nature and people’
A visit to Japanese art island Chichu is both a meditation and an education
How the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation promotes ‘slow’ looking
The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall
On Jackson Hlungwani: A close encounter with an artistic deity
A survey of Jackson Hlungwani’s practice presents a transcendental experience, even for non-believers
The politics of guilt and the violence of the archive
During the lockdown, artists must rethink their place in the system. Now is the chance to advocate and appreciate the human condition of being constantly and chaotically in flux
Jozi’s must-try art galleries
There’s no Table Mountain in Jozi, but there are amazing art spaces
Spaces are not neutral to the art they show
Dorothee Kreutzfeldt’s exhibition shows art and galleries can be part of the urban landscape
Berlin Biennale curator Gabi Ngcobo gets organised
Gabi Ngcobo’s speciality is to contribute to global discussions about how best to curate art.
‘Africans in America’ reveals diasporic disconnections
The exhibition shows that African-American no longer speaks to one specific group.
Art, consumerism and ‘curated’ gentrification meet at Keyes Art Mile
A new "curated neighbourhood" in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is on the block but this "safe space" is certainly not inclusive.