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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

Diary: Jazz in the Lights, Dance for all, Street art in Maboneng

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Boundary objects: In Irma’s Sterns Zanzibar series the traditional Zanzibari wooden door frames are an integral part of the art

Art: What’s in a frame?

A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art

Public art: A microscope trained on our society

Sophie the maid, artist Mary Sibande’s creation, looks down at the Jo’burg CBD from various billboards.

From fools to angels

Brett Bailey, curator of Infecting the City, speaks to the <i>M&G</i> about putting art in the path of the public.

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.

The elephant that caused all the trouble

The elephant that caused all the trouble

A public artwork planned for Durban at a reported cost of R1,5-million has been scuppered, allegedly because the trio of elephants are an IFP symbol.

Redressing Mandela

The bronze Nelson Mandela statue in Sandton, Johannesburg, was "redressed" in a giant shirt on Saturday by a group of artists.