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Nine Yards is not trying to reinvent Rosebank. If anything, it understands exactly what makes the area seductive.

Nine Yards is reimagining slow living in Joburg

A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience

Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

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

Circle of life: Place it on the Altar by Boitumelo Diseko. The artwork symbolises the New Testament God sacrificing his only son for our sins, so that we may be saved.

Portfolio: Boitumelo Diseko, artist and gallerist

Boitumelo Diseko has married her love of art and business by opening the B Artworks Gallery

Umbrellas, 2020. The image will be shown as part of Of Blood, Sweat and Data, which forms part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme. (Photo: Nonzuzo Gxekwa)

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’, on show as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City programme, hopes to alter the way art lovers view Johannesburg — and photography

Wake-up call: Mandla Sibeko, entrepreneur and founding director of FNB Art Joburg. (Photo: Andy Mkosi)

Open City: The art of invading Jo’burg

FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces

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

Freida Lock, Slave Quarters, Spier Farm, Stellenbosch / A Cape Dutch Homestead (back), 1946. Oil on canvas. (Courtesy of the Javett Foundation, Pretoria)

The politics of guilt and the violence of the archive

During the lockdown, artists must rethink their place in the system. Now is the chance to advocate and appreciate the human condition of being constantly and chaotically in flux

Jozi’s must-try art galleries (Photo Archive)

Jozi’s must-try art galleries

There’s no Table Mountain in Jozi, but there are amazing art spaces

At the End of August 1

Spaces are not neutral to the art they show

Dorothee Kreutzfeldt’s exhibition shows art and galleries can be part of the urban landscape

“I’m curious as to what I can effect

Berlin Biennale curator Gabi Ngcobo gets organised

Gabi Ngcobo’s speciality is to contribute to global discussions about how best to curate art.

Do African-Americans and Africans have anything to share or only a series of broken conversations from across the water?

​‘Africans in America’ reveals diasporic disconnections

The exhibition shows that African-American no longer speaks to one specific group.

Marble restaurant at Keyes Art Mile.

​Art, consumerism and ‘curated’ gentrification meet at Keyes Art Mile

A new "curated neighbourhood" in Rosebank, Johannesburg, is on the block but this "safe space" is certainly not inclusive.

Ceramist Nic Sithole at work in his studio in Orange Grove.(Johann Barnard)

Inspired by the ‘hand of God’

The work created by ceramist Nic Sithole for the Adelaide Tambo Collection is something to behold.

A hip place to park in Moscow

A ruined Soviet-era restaurant in Gorky Park, Moscow, is set to become the unlikely new home for one of ­Russia’s hippest arts centres.

Guggenheim proposes $178-million Helsinki museum

A new museum will add to the foundation’s growing stable of contemporary art spaces around the world.

Art theft: Now you see it

Art theft: Now you see it, now you don’t

The theft of valuable bronze works from the Johannesburg Art Gallery has raised issues of security and funding in South Africa’s public galleries.

Damien Hirst seeks art-market revolution

British artist Damien Hirst, who broke the mould by putting sharks in formaldehyde, has turned his attention to revolutionising the art market.

What a load of pre-Crapalite!

The fabled world of a mystical brotherhood comes alive at a Jo’burg gallery, writes Matthew Krouse.