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Voice of the voiceless: Pumeza Matshikiza, who hails from the Eastern Cape and has graced opera stages around the world, has become an ambassador for Women and Men Against Child Abuse. Photo: Decca/Simon Fowler

Opera singer Pumeza Matshikiza on joining the global fight against child abuse

Renowned soprano Pumeza Matshikiza steps off the stage and into advocacy, using her art and influence to fight child abuse

Sculpture under the sun: A talk around Angus Taylor’s Morphic Resonance was held during the BMW Art Generation Vol III at Nirox Sculpture Park last weekend. Photo: BMW Group South Africa

A day of art, vibes and black joy

BMW Art Generation fused music, fashion and community ambiance in an event that outshone traditional notions of art

A vision: Lufuno Ramadwa, producer at the Muholi Art Institute, which co-hosted the conference at The Market Square in Newtown, Johannesburg.

Picturing the future with care and collaboration

At a three-day gathering in Johannesburg, the Black Women in Photography Conference centres their voices, struggles and legacies

Diversity: Scarves in various sizes and in colours of the veld are Ardmore Studio’s latest collection.

Diary: Ardmore Studio’s Armoured Warriors, Nominations open for Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards, Javett-UP presents We, The Purple this September

Your essential dose of art and culture

Just joking: Kwanda Radebe hosts the comedy and jazz series.

Diary: Jokes & Jazz for UKZN, Strauss & Co photography auction, Locarno comes to Cape Town

Your essential dose of art and culture

Depth of feeling: Zanele Muholi’s photographs ‘Manzi III’, from a series which shows them swimming in the Atlantic Ocean

Split does nothing to slow down artist

Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever

Art meets philanthropy as Zanele Muholi embarks on a new chapter

The photographer has created a nurturing space for young creatives to tell their own stories by setting up the Muholi Art Institute in Cape Town

Violence: #SayHer1019 by Kilmany-Jo Liversage emphasises sorry by Penny Siopis depicts victims’ feeling of shame that often accompanies abuse.

Art of activism: 16 artists against gender violence

Artists whose work speaks against gender violence is art as activism that shows the need for more than 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

A visitor at the ninth edition of the international art fair, Expo Chicago. (Justin Barbin)

South African artists taking over Chicago, Bonteheuwel style

The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists

An image of a colour pastel drawing reproduced as a print that was hawked by Aisatic merchants in black townships.

The current infatuation with portraiture has colonial roots

However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture

Women in Khayelitsha watch a performance by Buhlebezwe Siwani, which began Any Given Sunday. (Photo: Riason Naidoo)

‘Any Given Sunday’: Public art as politics in the streets of Cape Town

Performances for ‘Any Given Sunday’ shook up Cape Town’s public spaces in a decolonial gesture in 2015

Celebrating justice: Women’s rights activists outside the Khayelitsha magistrate’s court in 2012 at the sentencing of Zoliswa Nkonyana’s killers. Four men were sentenced to 18 years in jail each for the February 2006 murder of the 19-year-old lesbian. (Shelley Christians/
Gallo Images/The Times)

‘We only write about them when they are dead’: Hate killings of black lesbians in South Africa

In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured

An image frrom the forced removal series. (Deseni Soobben)

The Portfolio: Deseni Soobben

Deseni Soobben’s sensibilities have changed over the years, but she keeps revisiting the composition and design techniques she learned from her mentors

Artist and photographer Thembi Mthembu pictured at the Gulf of Venice in 2019. (Thembi Mthembu)

Talking Bodies: Photographers use self-portraits to tell stories

Mandisa Buthelezi and Thembi Mthembu are adding depth to the photographic archive through their self-portraits with captions and historical reframing

‘Mountains iii’ (2019) is taken from Pola Maneli’s ‘An Indigenous I/Eye’. (Print:  Pola Maneli) (Photo: Ross Charnock)
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Pola Maneli asks: “Do you feel seen?”

Pola Maneli’s latest work, ‘An Indigenous I/Eye’, is an attempt to visualise blackness

Chasing Shadows: Shebeen. (Copyright Santu Mofokeng Foundation, courtesy Lunetta Bartz MAKER )

Sixosh’ abathakathi: Ukuthwebula and the photographic image

Reimagining image making through concepts found in isiZulu

An ode to Trevor Makhoba’s ‘Studio Visit’ (2001) ‘Jy moet jou ma da by die wit mense vir nou enjoy want aan die einde kô amal huis toe’ — The artists mother on the topic of mixing races (2002) by Lady Skollie (Paulo Menezes)

Mating Birds Vol.2: Love and its perversions under the Immorality Act

Sumayya Menezes reflects on trawling through the source material that birthed Mating Birds Vol.2

Reflections: Heidi Fourie’s ‘The Missing Mass’ features in ‘A Letter to My 22-year-old Self’

Struggling artists get a boost

A group exhibition exposes emerging creatives and raises money for a foundation

Muholi at Stevenson

Brave Beauties and the dark Lioness

If beauty is a joy forever, so it is with the photos jumping out of whitewashed gallery walls

This week Mentor became the first of the commission’s witnesses to be cross-examined and, despite critical gaps in her claims and evidence contradicting them, she stood by her testimony. (Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24/Gallo Images)

On ten years of ‘Faces and Phases’: ‘We are making history here’

Zanele Muholi speaks about creating images of LGBTI people that move beyond hate crimes