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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

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

Confrontation, by Phoka Nyokong. (Photo supplied)

Phoka Nyokong and the fight for Africa’s stolen artefacts

The artist’s exhibition challenges colonial looting and the fight to reclaim Africa’s stolen cultural heritage

The distant descendant of Banksy’s Flower Thrower

An intensely focused figure, fashioned from darkest shadow, shifts his weight to his back foot as he prepares to leverage the full elastic force of his body’s frame to unleash…

The concurrent shows represent the creative legacy of David Koloane by respectively foregrounding his work and persona

David Koloane: Stylistic journeyman and complex persona

Two exhibitions across downtown Jo’burg force a slower look at the famed artist’s work

Dr Same Mdluli urges educators and scholars to conduct research and write in the missing pieces of art history. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Designing a new theory of art

A broader history and market-related education needs to be added to curriculums

Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said they had received tips of alleged corruption within the department.

National Arts Festival 2017: Disruption all around us and still we haven’t learnt

Nadia Davids’s "What Remains" looks at a grim archaeological discovery as the site of a contest between "memory and history".

“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.

Johannes Phokela at his Selby

Johannes Phokela messes with the Western art cannon’s masters

Using contemporary ­references, Johannes Phokela turns the Western canon on itself to comment on the power play.

An image from the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year for Performance Art winner

Athi-Patra Ruga’s latest art shows ‘Azania’ without a purpose

Athi-Patra Ruga’s National Arts Festival show brings to mind a neo-avant-gardist catwalk display or an opening act for Lady Gaga, writes Athi Joja.

Treasured past secures ?a priceless future

The Art History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand produces its first Wits History of Art portfolio.

Revolution

Revolution, re-vision and redress

<b>Mario Pissarra</b> explains how an ambitious project has set a new standard for dealing with competing art histories.