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Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society

Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community

Manifestation: A 2024 artwork, titled we wanted to come home, by Hank Willis Thomas.

Layers of meaning

Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks

Rebuild: South African photographer David Goldblatt’s exhibition Fragments of Fietas on at the Goodman
Gallery in Johannesburg honours the resilience of a community fractured and displaced by apartheid.

Fietas and the enduring question of home

David Goldblatt’s Fragments of Fietas captures more than loss — it reveals how memory, belonging, and faith survive even after home is erased

Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

What does it mean to truly take your time? Artist shows us through a devotion to detail that transforms everyday materials into meditations on life, loss and transformation

Walter Oltmann and the alchemy of wire

What does it mean to truly take your time? Artist shows us through a devotion to detail that transforms everyday materials into meditations on life, loss and transformation

Previously unseen: In 1964 Cole travelled to Frenchdale, a remote settlement in the Northern Cape, to document the lives of these internally displaced political exiles

A reshoot of Ernest Cole

Three decades after his death the apartheid-era maverick photographer is still revealing himself

Out of the blue: A work from Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze’s exhibition Light Blue Violet, which is on at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

Space for thought in Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze’s Light Blue Violet

An exhibition of drawings invites viewers to explore the fluidity of space and the art of deep seeing

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

‘Uncontrollable Calm’ appears as part of  of Tavares Strachan’s exhibition ‘The Return’, which is on at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg until 7 October. Photos: All images courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

Strachan: ‘An alien operating in the art world’

Exhibition tells of celestial bodies and space travel, of visibility and invisibility

The Tomorrows/Today exhibition brings together 10 artists who will be tomorrow’s leading names in art. An exhibition’s use of the title In and Out of Time is that of the poem of the same name by Maya Angelou, which speaks of everlasting love and suffering. Photo: Supplied

Cape Town Art Fair brings together 10 top artists of the future

The Tomorrows/Today exhibition includes tapestries by Talia Ramkilawan, sculptures by Githan Coopoo and Joanna Choumali’s embroidered images

The result of Magugu’s sartorial engagement with Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli saw the two designers swap their creations and rework them into their own style for Vogue magazine. Photo: Delali Ayivi

Making Fashion History

Thebe Magugu keeps making headlines. The source of his success his country’s history and his own

Ravelle Pillay – Studio Portrait

Missing information: Ravelle Pillay’s Tide and Seed

Ravelle Pillay pictures a space outside of time, where narratives of indentured labour are hidden, morphed, revealed and transformed to painterly ends

Cassi Namoda’s We have become strangers (Fight with a javelin and boron). An ode to Goya (2020)

Don’t Miss: Our weekly round-up of virtual and in-person events

From art exhibitions to film festivals, we’ve got your entertainment covered this weekend to the next

A work by ruby onyinyechi amanze. Her show, ‘The Ones that Stayed’ will be presented online this month

The List: Things to do, watch and learn

We round up the best online entertainment and activities to keep you busy this weekend

A work from Udludlilali by Mawande Ka Zenzile
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The Virtual Lists

For good vibes and an arts fix from your home, watch this

Responding to provocations: (from left) Artwork from season seven at the Centre for the Less Good Idea (Stella Oliver)
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Old artistic forms find new mediums in uncertain times

Music, art and theatre are moving online as cultural workers adjust to lockdown

The first episode of arte Series, featuring Nonku Phiri, takes place this weekend at Nirox Sculpture Park (Angus Mackinnon)

The Weekend Guide

For good vibes and an arts fix, don’t miss the events ranging from gallery exhibitions to music concerts on our weekend gig guide

See: Loding, former Kwandebele, 2010 (left) and the air we breathe, these metal release CO2 for miners underground, Marikana, 2012. The images feature in Bôna, an exhibition pooling together work from three of Thabiso Sekgala’s photographic essays

The Portfolio

“The photographs in the series act as a symbol of, or a witness to, the economic imbalance that exists in contemporary South Africa, where people increasingly inhabit contrasting…

Simone Leigh via Goodman Gallery

‘Soft Architectures’ leaps between mediums and modes

Soft power is often felt and almost always unseen. As a concept introduced by Joseph Nye in the early 1980s, soft power is thought of as a specific ability to get what you want.…

Images from Sam Nhlengethwa’s show ‘Joburg Select’ remind us of spaces that repel us

The fiction, fantasy and horror of ‘Joburg Selected’

The solo show by Sam Nhlengethwa explores the many sites and scenes of the city, caught in a loop of ambition and horror