The Joburg-born artist’s latest exhibition uses burning steel wool sculptures and ash paintings to explore ritual, transformation and the transitions that shape our lives
A sprawling exhibition at the Origins Centre challenges colonial narratives and reframes African cities as spaces of resilience, creativity and constant transformation
A chance gallery stop becomes an intimate encounter with Amogelang Maepa’s sensual, emotionally charged exploration of fleeting desire and lasting residue
Exploring shared struggles and the power of love, Hank Willis Thomas’s latest exhibition layers American and South African histories into thought-provoking artworks
What does it mean to truly take your time? Artist shows us through a devotion to detail that transforms everyday materials into meditations on life, loss and transformation
Brett Murray speaks about the shift in the work that appears on his new exhibition This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail…
Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever
The work of 84-year-old artist Noria Mabasa explores traditions, mythology and spirituality
Visual artist Roger Ballen has a distinctive style that has evolved over a 50-year period
‘Let Me Tell You About Red’, artist Mary Sibande’s third instalment in the tricolour Sophie series, is on in Durban
A walk through the Norval Foundations inspires thoughts on frames as anchors, thresholds and art
How Shona stone art came into its own after independence
A survey of Jackson Hlungwani’s practice presents a transcendental experience, even for non-believers
Artist Dada Khanyisa on responding to the opportunities that their practice offers them, by all means necessary
Although the artist is starting a whole new conversation, he picks up on threads from his earlier shows and expands on them.
Instead of overanalysing the context from which these Limpopo artworks sprung, we should enjoy them for their individual merits.
For many hoping to see their work placed in the public sphere, the easy route seems to be an approach of "play-play".
A new sculpture that neatly aligns commercial interests with art and our history has the twitterati frothing about apparent opportunism.
For Meleko Mokgosi, painting – as an act, object and commodity – is always political. And his approach to his work is unrelentlingly uncompromising.
A young American in Tübingen had to be rescued by 22 firefighters after getting trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina.
