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Battle of the ballot

<b>Brenton Maart</b> speaks to Guy Tillim about photographing crowds and power in the DRC.

Art fit for a prince

The hamlet of Prince Albert is becoming a destination for art aficionados, writes Brenton Maart.

Sugar and spice

Berni Searle’s uses her body to map a complex political and emotional field, writes Brenton Maart.

The art of the Afropolitans

<i>Distant Relatives/Relative Distance</i> is inspired by the blurring of geographical and cultural boundaries, writes Brenton Maart.

It’s a small world

Brenton Maart focuses on the minute detail in new art.

The witch children of Kinshasa

Brenton Maart reports on an exhibition that incorporates images of children branded as practitioners of the occult.

Unpacking identity

"In Africa I think art is still very close to life. And issues [that] African artists are dealing with are issues of life". Brenton Maart asks top curator Simon Njami what makes…

Hard living the fast life

A long-awaited retrospective of the art of Dumile Feni launches this weekend, at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. It is a maniacal visualisation of what the word "struggle" meant to…

City boys take to the streets

Check out Rhode, Cohen, Tracy Rose, Kay Hassan’s and other visually superb, conceptually deep, socially engaging, psychologically disturbing and potentially life-changing video…

Turning inside out

A new exhibition makes public the private thoughts of people living with HIV and Aids, writes Brenton Maart.