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Shamilla Aasha’s The Healing Alchemy 2025

Generations in conversation: Tandazani Dhlakama curates across time

Tandazani Dhlakama’s Generations section at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair pairs artists across borders and eras to reveal the quiet continuity shaping contemporary African art

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

Documenting a vanishing present: Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s ‘Group Show’

Kamyar Bineshtarigh turns the walls and floors of artists’ studios into poetic records of memory, process, and collaboration

Juicy: Musician Apples drops Magic this Women’s Month.

Diary:  Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s Group Show to open at  Southern Guild this August, Don Toliver part of 2025 DStv Delicious line up and Apples releases Magic

Your essential dose of art and culture

Jozua Gerrard’s Different Day.

Exhibition shows the convergence of art, craft and design

A new wave of African creatives is working with galleries to blur the distinction between the three disciplines

Depth of feeling: Zanele Muholi’s photographs ‘Manzi III’, from a series which shows them swimming in the Atlantic Ocean

Split does nothing to slow down artist

Zanele Muholi has left her long-time gallery but they are as alive and productive as ever

Crowning glory:  Zizipho Poswa with two of her massive ceramic vessels in progress. Photo: Hayden Phipps and Southern Guild

Heads up: Artist is firing up a ceramic storm

Zizipho Poswa’s new series of ceramic works celebrates black women via an expressive abstract language

Capital of creativity: Trevyn and Julian McGowan have gathered together the work of designers from 17 countries for their Guild show in Cape Town.

Cape Town fires up its art engine

Global rock stars of art and design are ?showing their work this weekend in ?three events that are part of the World Design Capital 2014 programme.