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Mandy Johnston’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

Mandy Johnston wants to burn things to bring back traditions

The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives

Rocking Tshivenda: Muneyi, who was the winner of the 2024 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music, says that his next project will be wholly in his mother tongue.

Muneyi: A decade of storytelling and musical integrity pays off

Muneyi, a poetic voice from Limpopo, blends folk and tradition into something urgent, modern and, finally, something celebrated

Games with my art: Callan Grecia’s painting of Zidane’s headbutt in the 2006 World Cup

Football shoots one past art

Project at Cape Town Art Fair demonstrates the links between the sport and art

Value: A detail from a Marlene Dumas painting.

The African art market boom — a myth or a reality?

The art market is more complex than other investment markets, such as stocks and government bonds, as art has an intrinsic value that cannot necessarily be quantified and plugged…

Helen Teede’s A Virtual Flowering, CeLaFaremo2

Brush off traditional views of art

The Mother City’s premier art event promises to leave viewers unbound

The Tomorrows/Today exhibition brings together 10 artists who will be tomorrow’s leading names in art. An exhibition’s use of the title In and Out of Time is that of the poem of the same name by Maya Angelou, which speaks of everlasting love and suffering. Photo: Supplied

Cape Town Art Fair brings together 10 top artists of the future

The Tomorrows/Today exhibition includes tapestries by Talia Ramkilawan, sculptures by Githan Coopoo and Joanna Choumali’s embroidered images

The collision of commercial interests of art fairs and the activism of artists dealing with contemporary issues was illustrated when Ayanda Mabulu’s painting was briefly removed at the 2013 Joburg Art Fair

The fine art of domesticating a revolution

As much as artists might rebel against it, art fairs and private enterprise are the new drivers

Women’s perspectives: Nontobeko Ntombela has curated the SOLO exhibition at Cape Town Art Fair that features works by emerging female artists

‘From No Fixed Place’, a space appears

"Violence targeted at erasing the bodies of women tells us that their physical, emotional, and political and intellectual labour remains a threat".

Get this album: Noname Gypsy’s Telefone.

Capitalcentric art fairs are not for artists

"Africa’s relationship with art is a complicated and tumultuous one."

Art fair ­offers more than sales

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

Lady Skollie is also known as Kaapstad Kanye.

Lady Skollie takes the art world beyond the white cube

The Jo’burg-based artist uses the digital arena to escape the "exclusive economy of art" and wants to be the queen of a sex empire.

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Money talks: In art, now, the cart pulls the horse

The rapid growth of “art fairs” globally could either be the upside or downside of the future of the art industry, writes Melvyn Minnaar.

Cape Town art fairs tread a tenuous tightrope

Eclecticism in myriad forms reigned at two art events in the Mother City.

DON’T MISS THIS: Cape Town Art Fair

From screenings to exhibitions and debates, the Cape Town Art Fair 2014 is a first for the city and heralds from the successful Hong Kong Art Fair.