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Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.
AFRICAN ARTISTS

Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society

Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
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
AFRICAN ART

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

  • Laurence Hamburger
8 min read
Omar Badsha And Dumile Feni At The Durban Art Gallery
ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

Apartheid’s shadow, an artist’s light: Omar Badsha’s story

Omar Badsha’s journey from quiet observer to defiant artist in apartheid South Africa

  • Daniel Magaziner
8 min read
Previously unseen: In 1964 Cole travelled to Frenchdale, a remote settlement in the Northern Cape, to document the lives of these internally displaced political exiles
APARTHEID

A reshoot of Ernest Cole

Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself

  • Sean O Toole
7 min read