Creator
Sean O’Toole is writer and editor based in Cape Town. He has published two books, Irma Stern: African in Europe - European in Africa (2020) and The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories (2006), as well as edited three volumes of essays, most recently The Journey: New Positions on African Photography (2020). His essays, cultural journalism and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including Mail & Guardian and Sunday Times.
Production is a poetic, immersive elegy which turns loss at sea into theatre’s most powerful tide
Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself
Thoughtful, literary exhibition gathers works by 12 artists from across the globe
Recent shows by the sculptors Nolan Oswald Dennis, Vusumzi Nkomo and Diana Vives make for fascinating viewing
Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art talks about art on the African continent
Alfredo Jaar’s photo exhibition is of Rwandan, Sudanese, Afghani and Vietnamese refugees
Passion, profit, prestige … the popularity of ‘the people’s artist’ endures, despite his work being rejected as kitsch
‘I don’t know how to keep quiet,’ says Cape Town artist Thania Petersen of the Israel-Gaza war
The renowned artist talks about inspiration, ideas, history and his new exhibition
Artists and exhibitions show the connections between Mexico and South Africa
French new media artist Tabita Rezaire says time in South Africa helped to heal her
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s photographed photos of the family’s tavern prepared him for today
Exhibition tells of celestial bodies and space travel, of visibility and invisibility
Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever
The Harare-born artist on his journey from hipster in a dress to the embodiment of the zeitgeist
In a first for South Africa, a Johannesburg museum is showing work by the pioneering woman artists
William Kentridge’s star continues to rise, with big museum shows in Britain and America. Will it intensify his prices?
Mo Laudi and James Webb have turned their passion for music and sonic mischief into art, and are winning audiences in France
The city has long had a fascination with South African jazz — and now with its visual artists
Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at
