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Women in Khayelitsha watch a performance by Buhlebezwe Siwani, which began Any Given Sunday. (Photo: Riason Naidoo)

‘Any Given Sunday’: Public art as politics in the streets of Cape Town

Performances for ‘Any Given Sunday’ shook up Cape Town’s public spaces in a decolonial gesture in 2015

Photo of JP Mika by Riason Naidoo behind the painting entitled
Mwundu Na Pembe (Noir et blanc), 2019

JP Mika is a Congolese artist in full bloom

The painter, who hails from the DRC, is currently presenting his first solo exhibition outside his home country in Paris

For the first time Ernest Mancoba’s art and thoughts were celebrated in Paris (Bertel Bjerre)

Mancoba’s genius is at long last acknowledged

In Europe, where he lived most of his life, he was either ‘too African’ or ‘not African enough’

The early years: Finding work as a photographer in London was difficult, but ‘Drum’ was home for James Barnor and its founder, Jim Bailey, was his friend. (James Barnor/ Autograph ABP)

‘I’m finally getting recognition’

Celebrated Ghanaian photographer James Barnor continues his interview with Riason Naidoo, focusing on the later years of his career

Suave: Ghanaian photographer James Barnor in his youth. The 90-year-old’s latest solo exhibition is currently on show in Paris. (James Barnor/ Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière)

Photographer James Barnor – Ever Young at 90

He tells the story of his becoming a photographer and photojournalist in Ghana and in London

Jean-Michel Basquiat. Untitled, 1982. Acrylic and oilstick on panel. 182.8 × 244 cm. Private collection © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

Basquiat retrospective boasts central masterpieces and never-before-exhibited works

A retrospective on Jean-Michel Basquiat is showing at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Its curator has dubbed it the most comprehensive Basquiat show

Symbolism in abstract forms: Installation view of Bronwyn Katz’s ‘A Silent Line, Lives Here’, at the Palais de Tokyo (André Morin/Palais de Tokyo)

​Katz makes a jump from her mattress

The artist, in her first international show, also uses the ground to map out the directions people take

Body of work: Visitors check out paintings by Godried Donkor in the Ancien Palais du Justice. Njami convinced the Senegalese authorities that the majestic abandoned building was the perfect venue for the Dak’art biennale

Rethinking a key festival of African art

The curator of Dak’art talks about how he has transformed the concept of the biennale

National gallery a victim of Iziko structure

A director of Iziko Museums is back at work after winning a labour dispute, but the national gallery is a more serious victim of SA arts bureaucracy.

Restoring the Indian experience

In an edited extract from his new book, <i>The Indian in Drum</i>, Riason Naidoo shares his journey to find a nuanced picture of Indian identity.

Tragedy of an Indian family

Riason Naidoo reviews <i>Gandhi My Father</i>, which is based on the private and troubled relationship between the public figure of the Mahatma and his anonymous son Harilal.

On the paper trail

Timbuktu manuscripts — which include texts on astromomy and law — have been passed down through the centuries and generations as a form of inheritance. The preservation of…