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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

Hanging in the balance: Years of neglect and mismanagement have led to the decay of the Johannesburg Art Gallery building in Joubert Park, threatening its priceless collection.  (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)

In the Shadow of the Gallery: Art, power and the fight for Johannesburg’s soul

Johannesburg Art Gallery’s decay reveals deeper cracks in South Africa’s cultural and political institutions

Challenging hegemony: The work of performance artist Tracey Rose (pictured at bottom) moves from an interest in identity politics in South Africa to challenging societal narratives and myths such as Judeo-Christianity in 2011’s Waiting For God (above and left). Photos: Courtesy of the artist and Dan Gunn, London

Tracey Rose: Comical, cynical, carnivalesque

In a world bursting with self-appointed saviours, Tracey Rose speaks truth to power

Conversations: Thabang Monoa (left), Khwezi Gule (right) and Njabulo Zwane (not in photo), set up a winter and summer school. Photo: Andy Mkosi

The Portfolio: The Johannesburg Art Gallery Summer and Winter School

By facilitating a community for thought, the Sekoto School hopes to ground various discourses to do with black life

In addition to the comics, the exhibition highlights the use of comic-making tools and how they have lived in other, more revered, art forms. (Paul Botes)

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The Art of Comics exhibition, now on at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, aims to meet this need

Free to be: After being in the industry over twenty years, artist Tracey Rose enjoys the fact that, now she is an academic, she can say and write what she likes. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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More than one layer to the art and life of Tracey Rose

She might have softened her approach but her emotions still run high in all she does

Johannesburg Art Gallery chief curator Khwezi Gule used the works of artists, such as photographs from Steve Hilton-Barber’s collection of pictures taken in the 1990s of Northern Sotho initiates to inform ‘All Your Faves Are Problematic’

JAG exhibition sparks new discussion on all your faves

New in-house show re-engages gallery’s diverse collection

Working conditions: Kabelo Malatsie, the new director of the Visual Arts Network of Southern Africa, is targeting the exploitation of struggling artists. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

She fights for artists’ rights

The curator cum activist understands creatives’ struggles and is working to rectify this situation

Contrasts: In his exhibition

The quiet activism of exposing everyday fragility

German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans captures the mundane alongside the epic

With the 2016 local elections fast approaching

The custodian: Khwezi Gule

“People have lofty ideas of what I am expected to do but my view is to pose the question, ‘What type of institution do the people expect?’ ”

The honesty in playing it safe

The honesty in playing it safe

Tshabangu’s images of poverty don’t push the boundaries but his approach has integrity.