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Father figures: Lusanda Ndita with one of his works which deal with absent dads.
ABSA L ATELIER GERARD SEKOTO AWARD

Diary: Lusanda Ndita crowned, history through fashion, SA Clay Awards at Rust-en-Vrede

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG

Invaluable artworks and artefacts at risk in the Johannesburg museums

The City of Johannesburg has been marching on the spot for years about fixing its museum infrastructure, it can no longer pretend not to see the costly damage wrought over time

  • Melody Emmett
9 min read
APOLOGY

Apology to Judy Seidman

The Mail & Guardian apologises to the artist for the errors of fact and aspersions attributable to our lapses of process

  • Arts Desk
2 min read
Outside the Museum Africa in Johannesburg.
MUSEUM AFRICA

Jo’burg museums are decaying, but will privatising them create more problems?

We need a smart new public-private model to keep our heritage assets like galleries ship-shape.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
MUSEUM AFRICA

Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too

Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.

  • Bongani Madondo
11 min read
An installation representing the pillars of black music does not tell the whole story.
BAND

A jumbled trajectory

The International Exhibition of Black Music at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg, is a real treat.

  • Lloyd Gedye
4 min read
BOOKS

Doing it by the book

The first National Book Week suffered a strike-induced hitch on Monday when attendance of school children dropped dramatically on its final day.

  • Ryan Hoffmann
  • David Macfarlane
4 min read