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Pablo Picasso’s Buste Modern Style.

When art returns, who does it belong to?

As masterpieces by William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso return to Johannesburg, Homecoming becomes less about art on walls and more about who gets to claim it

Hip-hopping: The Back to the City Festival will take place in Johannesburg on 11 October. Photo: Supplied

Diary: Back to the City Festival; Babalwa Mentjies; A Protea Is Not a Flower

Your essential dose of art and culture

Jazz rhythms: Thulile Zama will put on a performance in Durban before embarking on a tour.

Diary: Javett art and cuisine, Joburg Ballet returns to Roodepoort Theatre, Thulile Zama and friends

Your essential dose of art and culture

‘Music chose me’: South African Mo Laudi is holding an exhibition titled ‘Globalisto: A Philosophy in Flux’ in the French city of Saint-Étienne. Photo: Jean Picon

Mo Laudi celebrates the explosive silence of a famous Gerard Sekoto painting

Mo Laudi and James Webb have turned their passion for music and sonic mischief into art, and are winning audiences in France

Samuel Fosso. ‘Untitled’ (Kwame Nkrumah) from the series ‘African Spirits’, 2008. Photo. rue du Port (tunnel). Fosso’s participation in neuf-3 was made possible in partnership with the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac. (Photo: Gustavo Gelmini, © Riason Naidoo.)

The Portfolio: ‘neuf-3’ — a public art project in Saint-Denis, Paris

The ‘neuf-3’ art project, curated by Riason Naidoo, aims to pay tribute to the African communities of Saint-Denis — and of Paris

Orgasmic State, 2021 (Oil and acrylic on Fabriano, digitally printed on cotton rag)

Aftermath: Bilious fumes and heavenly skies

Khubu Zulu wanted a way to deal with PTSD and landed on an accidental practice

Socialism on the streets: Metalworkers’ union Numsa during a recent march to Parliament in Cape Town.

Ode to a landscape dreamer

Gardener-turned-artist Moses Tladi’s life is a study in stifled promise at a time when black art should have thrived

Don’t Miss This: April 17 – 23

From David Kau’s ‘MoJokes’ to the Fine Arts and Collectable Sale, here are this week’s hot ticket events.

It is interesting to see who has laid claim to the legacy of Gerard Sekoto

The Sekoto exhibition was simply sumptuous

Rory Bester highlights some lost curatorial opportunities in the Song for Sekoto show, but I would have been none the wiser had I not read his review.

It is interesting to see who has laid claim to the legacy of Gerard Sekoto

Sekoto’s song builds up to an imperfect cadence

It is time to celebrate Sekoto’s place in South African art history, but this major exhibition doesn’t get it quite right, writes Rory Bester.

It is interesting to see who has laid claim to the legacy of Gerard Sekoto

Song for Sekoto: Duet of politics and money

It is interesting to see who has laid claim to the legacy of Gerard Sekoto, now the subject of a massive exhibition commemorating his 100th birthday.

Pretoria Art Museum

Stolen Pretoria Art Museum artworks found

Four of five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum have been found on a bench in a cemetery in Port Elizabeth, police said on Tuesday.

Pretoria Art Museum

DA: Tshwane metro was warned about poor security at Pretoria Art Museum

The Democratic Alliance says the Tshwane metro had been repeatedly warned about the lack of adequate security measures at the Pretoria Art Museum.

Pretoria Art Museum

Stern, Sekoto among stolen paintings

The five paintings stolen from the Pretoria Art Museum in Arcadia included an Irma Stern, worth R9-million, and a Gerard Sekoto, worth R7-million.

Sekoto paintings to draw bids for over R2.5-million

Paintings by a late South African artist and musician who made his mark as a pioneer of urban black art, will go on sale in London next week.

Return from exile

Anthea Buys looks at an exhibition featuring some of the works of a world-renowned artist, the late Gerard Sekoto.

Jo’burg Art Fair stirs up debate

A kaleidoscope of African images and themes is a fitting backdrop for the debate the Jo’burg Art Fair, which opened to the public on Friday, has sparked about what it means to be…