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Installation view of Requiem, from left: Paulus Fürst, Doctor Schnabel von Rom, Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom (1656); Artist unrecorded, Lonely Soul Ex-Voto (19th century). Photo Graham De Lacy
ANA MENDIETA

What lies in between? Musings on the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

‘Liminality’ is a buzz word in art speak, but does the current Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition go far enough in meaningfully unpacking it?

  • Thabang Monoa
13 min read
Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition.
ANDREW TSHABANGU

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Gallery offers a snapshot in time

  • Nolan Stevens
5 min read
Nontsikelelo Veleko’s Lesego, Miriam Makeba Street, Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 2008
ANDREW TSHABANGU

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A virtual retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Art Gallery offer a snapshot in time

  • Nolan Stevens
5 min read
Musician and performer Nicki Minaj rocks South Africa this week. Picture: Supplied.
JANE ALEXANDER

What’s On: March 18 – 24

From Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint tour to the eThekwini Pride of Africa Fest, we round up this week’s hot-ticket events.

  • Arts Desk
3 min read
Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival.
JANE ALEXANDER

A brutal past haunts the present

We salute sculptor Jane Alexander and writer Nadine Gordimer for art that is as apt today as it was in the early 1980s.

  • Editorial
2 min read
DIE ANTWOORD

Die Antwoord trailer pulled after copyright concerns

A trailer for Die Antwoord’s latest album has been removed from the internet for referencing a well-known anti-apartheid artwork without consent.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read