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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.

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

Generational wealth: An archive of 60 000 negatives in a Swedish bank was published posthumously by the
Ernest Cole Family Trust through Aperture in the book The True America in 2023. Photo: Ernest Cole

A legacy in focus: The long shadow of Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole’s lens captured apartheid’s truth and his legacy continues to shape creatives today

Ernest Cole Lost And Found By Raoul Peck (c) Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found — A profound portrait of the artist in exile

Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week

Striking: Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero was choreographed by Gregory Maqoma.

Diary: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero, BMW Art Generation, live scores to silent films

Your essential dose of art and culture

Weighing in: Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, visited South Africa recently. Photo: Lelanie Foster

Challenge Met, says New York art museum director

Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art talks about art on the African continent

South African rapper and poet Tumi Molekane. Photo supplied

Diary: Kentridge auction, Africa Rising in Jozi, and Stogie T’s Shallow

Your essential dose of art and culture

Artist Thabiso Dakamela creates another masterpiece for the CAFT  inaugural art fair.

Supporting art and culture in the nation’s capital city – Tshwane

CAFT aims to foster an ongoing dialogue among artists and enthusiasts

Celebrating Africa’s art and soul

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

Work from Noria Mabasa’s exhibition Shaping Dreams at the Nirox Sculpture Park. (Supplied by Lucky Lekalakala)

Sculptor is shaping dreams

The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality

Material differences: Part
of Ken Kweku Nimo’s book
‘Africa in Fashion’ explores
the history and cultural
heritage of textiles and
craft, which have influenced
couture on the continent.

African fashion at the confluence of heritage and culture

Ghanaian author Ken Kweku Nimo tells the story of the continent’s successful couturiers in his new book

Lindiwe Mngxitama observes the 2021 FNB Art Prize winner, Wycliffe Mundopa’s work at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Photos: Karabo Mooki/FNB Art Joburg

FNB Art Joburg presents the second edition of Open City

Open City is a celebration of art, music, fashion and food from the inner city to Rosebank and Sandton

Joseph Ndandarika, who was once described as one of the three greatest living stone sculptors. (Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe)

In praise of African art: How Shona sculpting emerged

How Shona stone art came into its own after independence

Stolen heritage: Many cultural treasures from Africa and elsewhere sit in the museums of former colonisers. Photo: Franck Fife/AFP

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

Treasure: Zulu-speaking community members visit the Iziko Museums’ storerooms during a workshop in Cape Town.  (Laura Gibson)

Museum in a Box tells our stories

As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution

artfull founder Kholisa Thomas envisions a world transformed by art

Can you picture this?

Present Tense

The growth in fake reproductions threatens the livelihood and reputation of artists. Once the work of an artist gets tainted as easily faked

We need to know how to combat the spike in forged South African art

Although forgery is a global problem, black South African modernists now face double exploitation

The artist demystified: El Anatsui’s latest exhibition includes archival material from his studio.

El Anatsui comes back to Africa

The world-renowned artist is being introduced to audiences with his latest exhibition ‘Meyina’

Artists beyond South Africa’s borders

Artists beyond South Africa’s borders

"As artists then, maybe it is time we seriously consider how better to strengthen synergies with our siblings on the continent."

Art fair ­offers more than sales

South Africa’s art economy is lucrative, drawing international buyers.

​Joël Mpah Dooh is a multidisciplinary artist whose approach is derived as much from experiments into the unknown as from techniques honed over the course of his 30-year career.

​Joël Mpah Dooh’s latest work explores the idea of collective fragility

The Cameroonian artist’s preoccupation is our relation to one another as global citizens.