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See through the Red Mist

‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban

Repurposed: The Ellis House Art Building (above) in Bertrams, Johannesburg, was previously a textile factory and houses galleries, studios, a coffee shop and curated spaces

Open Studios Joburg: Art for inner-city explorers

In the past few decades the Johannesburg inner city, like many urban centres worldwide, has become home to painters, photographers, printers and their imaginative brethren. In…

Cow Mash’s Boleta le Bofefo, 2019-2020. (Polyester resin, faux leather, various synthetic fibres, found object, 97 x 135 x 315 cm)

Black Luminosity foregrounded visibility as an act of refusal

The group exhibition at SMAC gallery, curated by Gcotyelwa Mashiqa, revisited the chromatic and social properties of blackness in contemporary South African visual art

Hasan and Husain Essop’s Facing Giblah, 2010, inhabits the mode of self-portraiture, accounting for several photographs in this Standard Bank Gallery exhibition.

‘Photographs In Our Mother Tongue’: The new South Africa under scrutiny

A retrospective of photographic works at the Standard Bank Gallery offers a snapshot in time

The august house that fosters art

Welcome to August House, a relic of Doornfontein’s ?industrial past and home ?to some of South ?Africa’s top artists.

Mary Sibande: The purple shall reign at Grahamstown’s arts fest

Mary Sibande is moving on from a familiar character in her oeuvre and, by exploring an historical event, is digging for deeper meaning.

Mary Sibande was a favourite of many fellow artists in 2012.

2012: More than just The Spear

2012 was a year where art made headlines. But there was more to the art world than the hype around Brett Murray’s controversial work.

Mary Sibande was a favourite of many fellow artists in 2012.

Talent that needs no kick-start

Some Standard Bank Young Artist laureates are too successful for their awards, argues Percy Zvomuya.

M&G arts editor Matthew Krouse picks the brains of five winners of the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards.

Art industry’s brightest new stars

M&G arts editor Matthew Krouse picks the brains of five winners of the 2013 Standard Bank Young Artist Awards.

Look up

Look up, up, up

Ten years ago Jo’burg launched the Johannesburg Art City Project, meant “to transform the city into the world’s largest outdoor art gallery.

Suburban dreams

Suburban dreams

Percy Zvomuya speaks to visual artist Mary Sibande about freedom, politics and alter egos.