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See through the Red Mist
‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban
Open Studios Joburg: Art for inner-city explorers
In the past few decades the Johannesburg inner city, like many urban centres worldwide, has become home to painters, photographers, printers and their imaginative brethren. In…
Black Luminosity foregrounded visibility as an act of refusal
The group exhibition at SMAC gallery, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, revisited the chromatic and social properties of blackness in contemporary South African visual art
‘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
‘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
The august house that fosters art
Welcome to August House, a relic of Doornfontein’s ?industrial past and home ?to some of South ?Africa’s top artists.
Mary Sibande: The purple shall reign at Grahamstown’s arts fest
Mary Sibande is moving on from a familiar character in her oeuvre and, by exploring an historical event, is digging for deeper meaning.
2012: More than just The Spear
2012 was a year where art made headlines. But there was more to the art world than the hype around Brett Murray’s controversial work.
Talent that needs no kick-start
Some Standard Bank Young Artist laureates are too successful for their awards, argues Percy Zvomuya.
Art industry’s brightest new stars
M&G arts editor Matthew Krouse picks the brains of five winners of the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards.
Ripples in a very big pond
South Africa’s first attempt at official national representation at the Venice Biennale has been a messy affair, but hopes are high.
Look up, up, up
Ten years ago Jo’burg launched the Johannesburg Art City Project, meant “to transform the city into the world’s largest outdoor art gallery.
Suburban dreams
Percy Zvomuya speaks to visual artist Mary Sibande about freedom, politics and alter egos.