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Sabelo Mlangeni’s photographic essay of his experience at the “Royal House of Allure”.

A Different Now Is Close Enough To Exhale On You: Curating, according to Bonaventure

Goodman Gallery collaborates with International guest curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and the Umhlabathi Collective

KPMG may have to repay VBS because of its alleged fraudulent audits if the defunct bank’s liquidators have their way. (Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images)

VBS Mutual liquidators target KPMG

Liquidators are investigating the auditing firm’s sign-off on financial statements, while two former executives also pursue a lawsuit against it

Bringing rule-breaking energy to the streets: João Simões started the Explode! arts collective to for body reclamation purposes. (David Harrison)
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Explosively queer in biased areas

Artist and curator Claudio Bueno revisits the misery of a homophobic district with new queer energy

‘New Brighton, Port Elizabeth’ by George Pemba can be seen at a period-crossing exhibition at the Standard Bank Art Gallery until April 18. (George Pemba/Standard Bank Gallery)
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A Black Aesthetic lacks rigour

A Black Aesthetics as being uninventive and politically questionable

An ode to Trevor Makhoba’s ‘Studio Visit’ (2001) ‘Jy moet jou ma da by die wit mense vir nou enjoy want aan die einde kô amal huis toe’ — The artists mother on the topic of mixing races (2002) by Lady Skollie (Paulo Menezes)

Mating Birds Vol.2: Love and its perversions under the Immorality Act

Sumayya Menezes reflects on trawling through the source material that birthed Mating Birds Vol.2

“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.

Okwui Enwezor

Why Marx got Venice Biennale invite

Charlotte Higgins talks to Venice Biennale director Okwui Enwezor about Marxism, bigotry and how Rolls-Royce sponsorship squeezes into the mix.

All the World’s Futures: 139 artists are exhibiting at the 56th Venice Biennale this year.

Venice Biennale: the world is more than enough

Adrian Searle embarks on a long walk to enlightenment at this year’s compendious Venice Biennale.

Venice Biennale: SA Pavilion finally announces artists

As the launch of the artists at the exhibition shows a lack of black female artists and comes under tight deadlines, we chat to the pavilion curators.

Archiving Africa: Curator

Enwezor turns a wanderer’s eye to the bureaucracy of everyday apartheid

Okwui Enwezor: More about the man behind the ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life’

Thing of Beauty, Uncles and Angels. (Supplied)

Buying art at the fair?

We asked four people involved in the arts the important question:

Taking care: Silvia Pillon says the Jo’burg Art Fair will offer a ‘museum-quality’ experience.

New curator on the block

Silvia Pillon, in charge of the noncommercial side of the Jo’burg Art Fair, discusses her role in staging the event.

Art and the archive: Brenton Maart

Venice Biennale 2013: An imperfect past ?and its impact on the present

SA’s exhibition at this year’s Venice Biennale includes works by a radically diverse group of artists – but it does not reflect an all-defining view.