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Mary Corrigall

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Mary Corrigall

Mary Corrigall is an award-winning critic, academic and founder of Corrigall & Co. She will be discussing the findings of the inaugural art report at an event hosted by Strauss & Co this Saturday. It will be followed by a panel discussion with Tokini Peterside, director of Art X Lagos art fair, Emma Menell director of London’s Tyburn gallery, Owen Martin, curator at the Norval Foundation and Matthew Partridge, contemporary specialist at the auction house.

Work by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, who is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photos: Güliz Özbek and Stephanie Veldman)

Happy 10th birthday to Cape Town Art Fair

With the international galleries and collectors it attracts, the event has become the country’s most important art event for dealers

Crowning glory:  Zizipho Poswa with two of her massive ceramic vessels in progress. Photo: Hayden Phipps and Southern Guild

Heads up: Artist is firing up a ceramic storm

Zizipho Poswa’s new series of ceramic works celebrates black women via an expressive abstract language

Drawing our stories: Animation series Spien, by Gladwin Stellenberg

What is pulling the plug on digital arts in South Africa?

he demand for digital products rose during lockdown but there have been challenges meeting it

The Prolific Beauty of Our Panicked Landscape, 2022 by Jadé Fadojutimi pic by Marco Cappelletti Courtesy: La Biennale di Venezia

Women are taking the lead at the Venice Biennale

It is where curators and artists make grand gestures but, despite the wealth of talent in South Africa, our pavilion lacked punch

The result of Magugu’s sartorial engagement with Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli saw the two designers swap their creations and rework them into their own style for Vogue magazine. Photo: Delali Ayivi

Making Fashion History

Thebe Magugu keeps making headlines. The source of his success his country’s history and his own

ZeitzMOCAA at
Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront.
 Photo (right): Iwan Baan

A tale of two (art) cities in the time of Covid

The pandemic made some of the differences between Joburg and Cape Town less important to how art is made and sold in those cities

Woolworths’s collection of puffer jackets made from recycled fabrics proved a hit with consumers but were they buying them for their eco-friendly qualities?

Sustainable in fashion, for some

Fashion outlets are providing ‘pre-loved’ as well as ethically and environmentally sound garments

Talent: Frans Thoka uses oil on blanket in his work titled  ‘Gowa ke go Tsoga’

Art and big business: the best of bedfellows

Corporates’ collections are kept relevant by sharing the works with the public and supporting artists

At the Bel Ombre Meadows in Constantia a mushroom foraging expedition turns up a good bounty of edibles the participants divide among themselves. Photo: Veld and Sea

Forage for edible mushrooms in Cape Town

Mary Corrigall went on an expedition and turned up edibles you seldom find in a supermarket

Thebe Magugu

Magugu’s new collection challenges African fashion clichés

Mary Corrigall spoke to the celebrated South African designer on the release of the Heritage capsule collection.

Johannes Phokela’s mimicry of classical Western painting demands time to be convincing, an example being Ides of March (2015)

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

Hussein Salim’s, Ante- chamber, 2020, typifies his style, which leans towards abstraction and was nurtured by an absence of visual references. (Courtesy Melrose Gallery)

Artist Hussein Salim’s journey to find his place in the world

Mary Corrigall meets with the Sudanese artist on the occasion of his largest solo exhibition in Joburg

Bharti Kher’s Warrior with Cloak and Shield, 2008 and Wangechi Mutu’s A Dragon’s Kiss Always End in Ashes, 2007, form part of the Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South exhibition. (Photos: Graham De Lacy)

How the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation promotes ‘slow’ looking

The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall

A collection of Jackson Hlungwani’s sculptures of fish, showing at the Norval Foundation as part of the Alt and Omega exhibition. (Photo: Michael Hall)

On Jackson Hlungwani: A close encounter with an artistic deity

A survey of Jackson Hlungwani’s practice presents a transcendental experience, even for non-believers

On line: Rai Gandra’s RILF, Revolutionaries I’d Like to Fuck, is ‘a fruit of the relationship between pop culture and pornography’. This work is on exhibit at Latitudes Art Fair.

Online fairs change art market

Covid-19 could have a positive effect on the quality of artistic fare.

Dada Masilo, the renowned dancer, appears in Kentridge’s Notes towards a model opera (2015) which is included in the Zeitz Mocaa survey on the artist. (William Kentridge)

William Kentridge examines ‘hesitation’

The word “hesitate”, which recurs in the titles of both exhibitions of William Kentridge’s art at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (Zeitz Mocaa) — Why Should I…

South Africa’s ?Zanele Muholi topped the ‘The Top 50 Artists and the 20 Top African Curators Who Validated Them’ list (Zanele Muholi)

SA’s disconnect from Africa limits cultural landscape

South Africa’s identity issues are reflected in its lack of appreciation for pan-African art

Every Women silk tapestry.

Limits and freedom of non-free art

The Joburg Art Fair has evolved in the last decade, but the question is: Have they gone far enough?

Truck drivers ran for safety and abandoned their trucks in the middle of the freeway when they saw the strike. We have arrested 29 suspects for public violence.”

Breaking free from migrant status

Ronald Muchatuta rejects labels and uses the checked bag to show how the migrants’ identity traps people

Albert Adams is one of the names on Marilyn Martin’s list of overlooked artists she wants to put on the art map.

Overlooked late artist Albert Adams remembered

The artist did not seek popularity, but new exhibition ‘Bonds of Memory’ may be the collection that finally puts him on the art map.