Artist
latest news & developmentsHow I became a rockstar in four months
Rebecca Malope sparked a fire in me as a child. Decades later, I honoured that flame with my first full-band performance
The long and short of a 50-year artistic career
Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
Painter pursues hope and light through his work
Solomon Mugutso takes inspiration from the lives of everyday people for his paintings
Sculptor is shaping dreams
The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality
Tony Gum launches her latest exhibition, ‘Milked in Africa’, in New York
The multidisciplinary artist talks about finding herself through visual storytelling.
The Portfolio: Robyn Field’s recurring archetypes
For the artist, creating work helps her make sense of her feelings around complex and heated subjects
The Portfolio: Percy Mabandu
Writer and visual artist Percy Mabandu talks about the energy of his portrait of Bra Winston Mankuku Ngozi, entitled ‘The Bull’
The Portfolio: Nanna Venter
‘Artsronaut’ Nanna Venter lets us in on her process for designing book covers, including for Lauren Beukes’s ‘Afterland’
Re-memoring Madibuseng
We re-examine Lebo Mathosa’s legacy as a biopic about the singer’s life hits our screens
Fela in Versace: how popular culture is driving 21st century pan-Africanism
When the AU is making promising strides in realising African integration through the adoption of pop culture, what lessons should be taken from them?
Botes takes on a giant subject
The artist uses his trademark comic-book style and a touch of Goya to address Marikana
Connecting through silence with Zoë Modiga
Zoë Modiga’s sound played through headphones cuts any distance between her and the audience
Childish Gambino shows us America
‘This is America’ comes amid the world’s leisurely smartphone view of the United States’ ongoing political and cultural pandemonium.
The delicious sounds of fiction
The musical duo Darkie Fiction produces truly nourishing — truly South African — food for the millennial soul
Red Bull Culture Clash: The beat of two cities
If Atlanta was a taste of what’s to come, Orlando Stadium is going to explode like never before