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Weekend specials: Take in Victor Gordon’s play ‘Brothers’ at The Market Theatre. (Thandile Zwelibanzi)

The Weekend Guide

For good vibes and an arts fix, don’t miss this

Dada Khanyisa gets ready for their first solo exhibition at home in Johannesburg. (Paul Botes)
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Nakanjani, Dada Khanyisa’s got a good feeling

Artist Dada Khanyisa on responding to the opportunities that their practice offers them, by all means necessary

Serene grace:

Dust, beauty and geography combine in Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic of Capricorn

Moshekwa Langa’s Tropic of Capricorn is a graceful reflection on time and place

The process of dying or forgetting the old and starting anew can be seen in ‘Gliding on My Knees to Heaven’ (2019) (Portia Zvavahera)

In the world — but not of it

Portia Zvavahera uses her dreams and experiences to create her otherworldly works

Afrofuturist: ‘Seekers of Light’ (2018) from Simphiwe Ndzube’s solo exhibition ‘Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas’.

Fictive world is not escapist

Simphiwe Ndzube’s solo show in Cape Town offers no easy answers to deracinated utopias

Working conditions: Kabelo Malatsie, the new director of the Visual Arts Network of Southern Africa, is targeting the exploitation of struggling artists. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

She fights for artists’ rights

The curator cum activist understands creatives’ struggles and is working to rectify this situation

Journeys: We See Mama

Both physical presence, and authenticity

It is hotly debated in many circles whether white gallery walls can ever become truly inclusive and evolved

‘Since time is distance in space’

Mame-Diarra Niang: A soul turned inside out

Three reflections capture the change of artistic mode after visiting Senegalese-French artist Mame-Diarra Niang.

‘Since time is distance in space’

Who no know

Three reflections capture the change of artistic mode after visiting Senegalese-French artist Mame-Diarra Niang.

‘Since time is distance in space’

Mame-Diarra Niang’s vision for the invisible

Three reflections capture the change of artistic mode after visiting Senegalese-French artist Mame-Diarra Niang.

Muholi at Stevenson

Brave Beauties and the dark Lioness

If beauty is a joy forever, so it is with the photos jumping out of whitewashed gallery walls

Moshekwa Langa and the mass of a poem

Artist Moshekwa Langa’s own life inspired his latest installation, which speaks to "hidden histories".

Stevenson Gallery curates SEX in the city

The SEX exhibition attempts to unpack sex through a timeline of events that took place in South Africa in the past decade.

Writing’s on the wall for Robin Rhode

Now based in Berlin, South Africa’s ‘poet of street art’ is back home with an exhibition that signals his intent to keep ‘flipping’ the art world.

Colour coded: Daniel Naudé’s Satin Bower 4

The politics of colour in art

The discourse about colour in art ignores the ­uncomfortable sociopolitical ramifications of race.