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Layers of meaning
Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks
Diary: Jazz in the Lights, Dance for all, Street art in Maboneng
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Art: What’s in a frame?
A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art
Public art: A microscope trained on our society
Sophie the maid, artist Mary Sibande’s creation, looks down at the Jo’burg CBD from various billboards.
From fools to angels
Brett Bailey, curator of Infecting the City, speaks to the <i>M&G</i> about putting art in the path of the public.
Elephant artist left in the dark
Two months after a resolution was passed to destroy his elephant sculptures, Andries Botha still does not know what is to become of his artworks.
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.
The elephant that caused all the trouble
A public artwork planned for Durban at a reported cost of R1,5-million has been scuppered, allegedly because the trio of elephants are an IFP symbol.
Redressing Mandela
The bronze Nelson Mandela statue in Sandton, Johannesburg, was "redressed" in a giant shirt on Saturday by a group of artists.