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Sue Williamson’s work Better Lives Nelson Manuel, 2003.

Sue Williamson’s retrospective: Art as witness to history

Her work confronts South Africa’s past, blending art, activism and memory

Image making: Artist Phumulani Ntuli’s exhibition Umfanekiso Uyopha Inkungu will be on at the University of Johannesburg.

Diary: Phumulani Ntuli to showcase new exhibition at the UJ Art Gallery, Turn On The Subtitles launches in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor brings 1994 box office throwbacks

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Returning the gaze: Lebogang Tlhako’s image forms part of the Reflections: On Black Girlhood exhibition

Reflections On Black Girlhood and the politics of representation

Black girls straddle inequality and shame, as well as joy and self-authorship, in a new exhibition, Reflections: On Black Girlhood

Women of the struggle: Artist Sue Williamson with works from her series of photo portraits from the ongoing series All Our Mothers.
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery

The long and short of a 50-year artistic career

Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon

Land of Milk and Honey

Tony Gum launches her latest exhibition, ‘Milked in Africa’, in New York

The multidisciplinary artist talks about finding herself through visual storytelling.

Zandile Tshabalala’s next exhibition, titled ‘In Search of My Mother’s Garden’, is at the Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Germany. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Zandile Tshabalala exhibits for the first time in SA with BKhz Gallery

Pandering to the art world is no longer a prerequisite for success. Zandile Tshabalala has proved this in the last two years by exhibiting abroad before coming home

Storytelling through printmaking

The Springs Art Gallery presents the Print Portfolio Exchange Exhibition. It features original work of 25 artists commissioned by the Soweto Arts Company

Artist Amber-Jade Geldenhuys turns the table on design

Her exhibition, ‘I Give Rocks’, rejects clean lines, is striking in its austerity and functional objects are rendered dysfunctional

Charl-Christo Petersen’s paintings from Day 143 of lockdown.

Inside the mind of artist Charl-Christo Petersen: 165 paintings in 165 days of lockdown

Cape Town fine artist Charl-Christo Petersen never saw himself as that until lockdown, when he was able to take thoughts and feelings of many and put them down on canvas

Choices: The Options exhibition is made up of diagrams and schema such as ‘prop 8 [prou(k)n]’, 2018

Worming into the guts of the unseen

The exhibition ‘Options’ is a search by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis for humanity

Sex exhibition is fair on representation but short on alternative heterosexual sex

The Sex exhibition, at Stevenson Gallery in Braamfontein, doesn’t go far enough to explain the problems specific to our generation.

Moshekwa Langa and the mass of a poem

Artist Moshekwa Langa’s own life inspired his latest installation, which speaks to "hidden histories".

Stevenson Gallery curates SEX in the city

The SEX exhibition attempts to unpack sex through a timeline of events that took place in South Africa in the past decade.

ANC and local government officials handed out houses in Marikana in early January but President Jacob Zuma

Shani Crowe unlocks braids as high art

Milisuthando Bongela spoke to a Chicago photographer whose work pays homage to the art of African hair braiding.

Buffett has less control over the companies in his stock portfolio

Wayne Barker: A new image with change of medium

The renowned South African artist has turned to silkscreening for his latest exhibition but his trademark touches remain.

Brett Murray: Small on penises, big on satire

Kicks and pricks aside, can Brett Murray’s work ever be read ignoring the brouhaha his Spear painting caused? The short answer: Maybe.

Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s ‘Untitled

Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s visions of ecstasy

Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s exhibition – 25 years after his death – salutes an artist who shifted the lens on depicting black male ­homosexual relationships.

Culture quest: Photographer Muntu Vilakazi documented life in East Rand townships for his exhibition The Politics of Bling: An East Rand Culture Quest.

The East Rand is in the house

Muntu Vilakazi shoots from the hip for his debut exhibition that focuses on people enjoying good times in the townships of the East Rand.

Sweet-smelling? ‘ghost’

Jade Klara says she loves "magic and fantasy. We’re bogged down with so much real life. It’s nice just to believe magic can happen."

‘We don’t seek art in their misery’

While Nelson Mandela lies gravely ill, a grim tragi-comedy unfolds. A prominent political family is disassembling in public view.