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Powerful: Siki Jo-An will perform with her band at the University of KwaZulu-Natal next month.

Diary: Siki Jo-An Live in Durban, BMW Art Generation at Nirox Sculpture Park and the Namaqualand Flower Festival 2025

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Dynamic: FNB Art Joburg managing director Mandla Sibeko.

Diary: FNB Art Joburg returns for its 18th year, Lu Dlamini to perform at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music and Kaleidoscope Festival returns this August

Your essential dose of art and culture

Chill: Marlene Dumas’s painting Existential Doubt was sold by Aspire Art in March this year for R4 million.

Art market: SA outlook is sunny

But clouds are gathering for international auction houses as concerns grow about a global slump

In the lush setting of Shepstone Gardens in Johannesburg’s suburb of Houghton Estate, artists, collectives and galleries will come together for the 2023 RMB Latitudes Art Fair from 26 to 28 May.

RMB Latitudes Art Fair shines the spotlight on African art

The art fair speaks to the nuanced aesthetics of African art

What’s on at FNB Art Joburg

Here’s a roundup of what has gone down at FNB Art Joburg’s extended programme Open City and what to look forward this weekend.

Lindiwe Mngxitama observes the 2021 FNB Art Prize winner, Wycliffe Mundopa’s work at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Photos: Karabo Mooki/FNB Art Joburg

FNB Art Joburg presents the second edition of Open City

Open City is a celebration of art, music, fashion and food from the inner city to Rosebank and Sandton

Albert Ibokwe Khoza as Credo Mutwa in The Eye of Rre Mutwa, a Shmerah Passchier film screening as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City film programme.
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Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days

Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at

Wake-up call: Mandla Sibeko, entrepreneur and founding director of FNB Art Joburg. (Photo: Andy Mkosi)

Open City: The art of invading Jo’burg

FNB Art Joburg director Mandla Sibeko speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about this year’s Open City, during which unlikely spots are turned into art spaces

Raí Gandra,  RILF: Revolutionaries I’d Like to Fuck. (iwalewabooks)

New ways of dreaming with iwalewabooks

iwalewabooks offers artists, cultural workers and academics a roving space to explore aesthetic and intellectually rigorous modes of publishing

On line: Rai Gandra’s RILF, Revolutionaries I’d Like to Fuck, is ‘a fruit of the relationship between pop culture and pornography’. This work is on exhibit at Latitudes Art Fair.

Online fairs change art market

Covid-19 could have a positive effect on the quality of artistic fare.

Signature style: Lunga Ntila uses distortion and collage-making when creating portraits, among them is Untitled (2019) (Lunga Ntila)

Art Week’s daring new darling

In the two years that she has been in the game, 24-year-old conceptual photographer Lunga Ntila’s name has been synonymous with the practice of distortion. Armed with a Nikon…

Mandla Sibeko bought the FNB Art Fair’s assets and established the new FNB Art Joburg. (Supplied)

Out of the old, came something new

The Mail & Guardian chats with Mandla Sibeko to receive clarity on matters surrounding Art Joburg

What to expect: Featuring at FNB Art Joburg are works such as Talia Ramkilawan’s Untitled VII (2019) (SMITH)

A beginner’s guide to Art Fair Week

The author candidly answers frequently asked questions about art fairs

Getting the job done: Anthea Buys, Nokwazi Nzimu, Makgati Molebatsi, Roberta Coci and Lucy MacGarry comprise the team that run the Latitudes art fair. (Delwyn Verasamy)
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Creating a broader art scene

Fairs such as Art Joburg and Latitudes are giving a diverse range of artists greater representation