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Johannes Phokela’s mimicry of classical Western painting demands time to be convincing, an example being Ides of March (2015)
CHARLES DARWIN

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

  • Mary Corrigall
9 min read
Visitors look at Edouard Manet’s painting the Olympia at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.
DEBORAH DE ROBERTIS

No sex in this city: the bare-faced cheek of Paris’s most sensual museum

The MusÈe d’Orsay called in police on a nude performance artist in an act of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.

  • Jonathan Jones
3 min read