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Jazz rehersals at home. Zola Madyaka and Eric Nomvete.
AFRICAN ARTISTS

Photography as a listening tool: Beata America puts it all on record

Beata America transforms photography into a medium of listening and memory in her Cabinet section, Record, at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair

  • Kibo Ngowi
3 min read
Smooth jazz: Gregory Porter music bridges eras and emotions with sincerity and grace. Photo: Erik Umphery
AFRICAN HERITAGE

Diary: Gregory Porter in SA; Zeitz MOCAA symposium; DJ Bob Jazz Club

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Busi Lethole
  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Hip-hopping: The Back to the City Festival will take place in Johannesburg on 11 October. Photo: Supplied
A REECE

Diary: Back to the City Festival; Babalwa Mentjies; A Protea Is Not a Flower

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Have a blast: A saxophonist performs at a previous edition of Heritage Day celebrations. Photo: Supplied
ALBIE SACHS

Diary: Heritage Day at Zeitz MOCAA, Friends of Feya Faku in Durban, Poetry at Market Theatre

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy
AFRICAN AESTHETICS

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

  • Thembeka Heidi Sincuba
6 min read
Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer on 10 May, was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. Photo by Mirjam Kluka
AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART

‘A loss we cannot quantify’: The enduring legacy of Koyo Kouoh

Artists, fellow curators and friends reflect on the singular presence of Koyo Kouoh and the imprint she leaves behind

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
Wave goodbye: Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer on 10 May, was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.
AFRICAN ART

A love supreme: A requiem for Koyo Kouoh

Bongani Madondo remembers Koyo Kouoh as an activist and a community worker — and curator of collective futures

  • Bongani Madondo
15 min read
FASHION DESIGN

MaXhosa Africa takes over Zeitz MOCAA with A.S.T.O: A Pan-African fashion journey

This collection will play with the aesthetic, because ‘fashion is often taken too seriously’

  • Zeitz MOCAA
3 min read
A painting by South African artist Helen Sebidi. Photo by Güliz Özbek and Stephanie Veldman
AFRICA

African art needs more investment

Small donations can have a large positive knock-on effect for African artists and contribute to the economy through art tourism

  • Hasnaine Yavarhoussen
5 min read
Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA. Photo: Andile Buka
ZEITZ MOCAA

Unearthing stories and reawakening collective memories

Zeitz MOCAA exhibitions showcase histories of struggle, resistance and radical solidarity

  • Jamaine Krige
8 min read
AFRICA

Celebrating Africa’s art and soul

What does it mean to be African in the contemporary art world?

  • Kimberley Schoeman
4 min read
View from below: the Atrium looks gives the spectacular view of the museum’s silo’s. (Photos by Nicki Prium and Larnelle Bakala)
DESIGN

Proteas, delicious food and fashion combine at the Zeitz MOCAA Art & Opulence Gala

Elegant pink couches, flower chandeliers, sequins and silks form part of the gala’s aesthetics that marries Italian sensibilities with African vibes

  • Kimberley Schoeman
6 min read
Royal: Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco leave the Gucci shop in Rome in 1959. Photo: Reporters Association, Archivi/Mondadori Portfolio
ALESSANDRO MICHELE

The rise and fall of the fashion House of Gucci

The story of the Italian brand is one of drama, not only in its aesthetics, but in its chaotic rise to success

  • Kimberley Schoeman
11 min read
Strong convictions: Koyo Kouoh is the curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, which houses the largest private collection of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora in the world. (Mikhailia Petersen)
ART

Curator celebrates black joy and aesthetics

The latest exhibition by Zeitz MOCAA’s Koyo Kouoh is a refreshing take on being black

  • Kimberley Schoeman
8 min read
In colour: Cheri Samba’s Une Femme Conduisant le Monde is part of the exhibition titled When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, which opens at the Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town later this month.
AFRICAN ART HISTORY

When We See Us Celebrates 100 Years of Black figuration in painting

Inspired by the Ava DuVernay television series with a similar title, When We See Us is a conversation between black and African artists

  • Kim M Reynolds
9 min read