Nirox has hosted some impressive artists, but its latest guest has installed something that is certain to capture the wonder of future visitors.
Braamfontein’s trendy Juta Street shopping strip will be the site of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai’s launch into international art stardom.
Some random cock and balls plonked onto a picture of the president does not good satire make, writes Matthew Partridge.
The Wits Art Museum collection is as vast and complex as the building, which incorporates a former petrol station and car dealership.
Naive painting is now all the rage and two artists’ work reveals what makes it work and what doesn’t.
"The most you can ask of art," Federico Freschi says with a glint in his eye,"is for it to alter your perceptions, even if for a nanosecond."
South African born artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky have returned to the country to showcase their work.
Dave Southwood began documenting the goings-on at Milnerton Market in 1999 and since then has become a surrogate member of this community.
In his latest show, <em>Fucking Hell</em>, at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town, Cameron Platter exhibits new drawings.
A massive restoration project is giving valuable artworks housed in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court a new lease on life.
An exhibition featuring works by about 60 artists reveals the magnificant beasts in their many facets.
Chris Dercon, the director of the Tate Modern, was in South Africa for last weekend’s Jo’burg Art Fair.
When Claudia Schneider returned to South Africa as the first Jo’burg Art Fair geared up, a natural question to her was: "Where’s the fringe".
Like London’s Frieze Art Fair in October, the Jo’burg art scene has come alive.
A new photographic exhibition takes a look at the fine art of the road trip.
South Africa’s first attempt at official national representation at the Venice Biennale has been a messy affair, but hopes are high.
On the cover of the catalogue of the survey exhibition <em>South African Photography 1950-2010,</em> is an image that is by now familiar.
The beauty of Jo Ratcliffe’s photographs lies hidden in their analogue quality, in the materiality of the print itself.
The London School of Economics’ relationship with Libya has given rise to controversy.
The recent theft of four works on paper by William Kentridge from the David Krut Gallery has shaken the South African art world.
