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South Africa’s architects may be low-key at Venice but their designs are helping correct social injustices
The doctrine of the ‘broad church’ is increasingly giving way to Darwinian politics
A single image shows Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani took part in the 1904 marathon but it cannot tell their story.
Colonial tropes still haunt our racially divided society, writes Sean O’Toole.
The outsider has always held a fascination for artists and writers, helping to shape our view of those who exist in a state of perpetual transition.
Kicks and pricks aside, can Brett Murray’s work ever be read ignoring the brouhaha his Spear painting caused? The short answer: Maybe.
By vandalising the holy text, two South African artists have created a new interpretation of it.
Even funerals and pilgrimages are falling prey to the compulsion to self-snap, writes Sean O’Toole.
A new sculpture that neatly aligns commercial interests with art and our history has the twitterati frothing about apparent opportunism.
Photographer Kyle Weeks’ portraits offer a reconstituted view of the OvaHimba as participants in modern and independent Namibia, writes Sean O’Toole.
Architecture, design, innovation and toilets swirled together in separate international initiatives in Durban and Cape Town.
Working on conceptual projects with traditional beadworkers in Durban has led US artist Liza Lou to re-evaluate her own naivety and hubris.
The alarm has been raised at a congress for architects over stats revealing that only 24% of built environment professionals are black and 9% female.
Along with an exhibition, photographer Reiner Leist’s new book of photographs "Another Country" explores signature portraiture.
Strike and class struggle subvert the "warm and fuzzy" story of workers who decided to make a car for Nelson Mandela.
City planners are using smart design, creative technology and community feedback in their attempts to reformulate the apartheid city.
Renegade photographers Juhan Kuus and Fanie Jason open up about their days of visceral and paparazzi-style lensmanship in South Africa.
South Africans made their presence royally known at the Venice Biennale — behind the scenes, on the scenes and in a new permanent pavillion.
From Hugh Exton’s portraits to images of Marikana, an exhibition that remembers the Land Act also pays tribute to socially conscious photography.
In ‘Freedom Rider’ Kevin Davie, an endurance sport enthusiast and business editor of the Mail & Guardian, writes about life on the road.
