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Choice. Click. Bait: An interrogation of the politics of power

Carla Busuttil’s latest exhibition looks at the quirks of South African suburban living and the exclusion of poor people from wealthy areas.

Sangomas’ power challenges state

An anthropologist schooled in traditional healing, Professor Robert Thornton, says it is deeply rooted in ideas and not science.

The wreckage of a truck and an airplane are seen at Tripoli international airport in the Libyan capital on July 14 2014.

Today’s Ponte: Drugs and gangsters, but mainly on TV screens

A series of images capturing the warts and warmth of Africa’s tallest housing block is up for a 2015 Deutsche Börse Photography prize.

A Palestinian man inspects a house after it was destroyed by an overnight Israeli air strike

Muholi’s photographs a vehicle for those seeking sexual freedom

Zanele Muholi has been shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse photography prize and sees it as an opportunity to put the LGBTI message on the world stage.

Venice Biennale: View from the ground

The works of SA Pavilion’s artists Mntambo, Lewis and Gunn-Salie bring the country’s past and present issues into sharp focus at Venice Biennale.

The structures that David Goldblatt values

Photographer David Goldblatt and Jeremy Kuper discuss old monuments and moves by students to have statues like that of Cecil John Rhodes removed.

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Uncertainty clouds impact of new arts funding organisation

There are fears that the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of SA is an attempt to control the industry through a centralised structure.

Police block the way to a Volgograd train station after a female suicide bomber blew up the entrance hall

South African photography at the Barbican

South African photographers Nadav Kander and Guy Tillim interrogate the built environment to uncover its sensibilities alongside the sublime.

‘Savage beauty’ of the AK-47

SA’s gun culture inspired Ralph Ziman to fetishise the Kalashnikov rifle in his gallery installation, "Ghosts" which takes aim at the arms industry.

Underlying menace:Ruan Hoffmann with one of his works, loosely patterned on a city map of Amsterdam that he has shaped into the shadow of an automaton. (Supplied)

Dark forces at work in Amsterdam

South African artist Ruan Hoffmann’s recent residency at the Thami Mnyele Foundation in Amsterdam was an opportunity to get away, for a while.

A museum within a museum: Meschac Gaba’s interactive show Museum of Contemporary African Art at the Tate in London.

Triumph for African modernism

The seminal exhibition by Meschac Gaba at Tate Modern dispels ­notions that African art is about the traditional or ­ethnographic.

Greed and excess: Yoruba-style batik cloth used in Yinka Shonibare’s Last Supper

London shows material interest in Africa’s old clothes

Curator Chris Spring’s journey into the world of African textiles began with the East African kangas, printed cloths usually worn by women.

A new photo book creates an alternative reality that turns thoughts about Africa on their head.

The Afronauts – a Zambian space odyssey

A new photo book creates an alternative reality that turns thoughts about Africa on their head.

New Marlene Dumas portrait is essential Amy Winehouse

The National Portrait Gallery in London has unveiled a new portrait of Amy Winehouse by South African-born, Netherlands-based artist Marlene Dumas.

Jong Afrikaners: Roelof van Wyk photographed his close friends for this series

Face to face with the new Afrikaner

Reminiscent of a well-crafted glossy advertising campaign, "Jong Afrikaner – A Self-Portrait" is a new book of photographs by Roelof Petrus van Wyk.

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Baaba Maal lights Africa’s Olympic torch

Musician Baaba Maal speaks to the M&G about ‘Africa Utopia’, a series of talks, concerts and events he is curating in London ahead of the Olympics.

Continent curator: Elvira Dyangani Ose is leading the Tate Modern’s drive to acquire more African art.

London’s Tate Modern takes a new view of Africa

Although quite tight-lipped about the details, the gallery wants to create an inclusive history of art.

Art as an Olympic event

Art as an Olympic event

A South African artist chose the workers as his subjects during his residency at London’s Olympic Park.

Jo’burg gallery awash in sewage

Jo’burg gallery awash in sewage

Institution faces a funding crisis that could result in ­priceless works in its storerooms getting damaged.

Currency of culture

Currency of culture

Deciding what constitutes a South African heritage work of art seems to be a guessing game.