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Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society

Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community

Pablo Picasso’s Buste Modern Style.

When art returns, who does it belong to?

As masterpieces by William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso return to Johannesburg, Homecoming becomes less about art on walls and more about who gets to claim it

Improvising the image: The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosted the second iteration of their expansive experimentation with intention, deep listening and meaning-making: Sounding Pictures. Photos: Zivanai Matangi

Lost in Joburg, found in sound

Stripping films of their original scores, ‘Sounding Pictures’ invites musicians and audiences alike into a charged, unpredictable experiment in collective interpretation

Experimental: A timeline of Standard Bank’s involvement in the arts over the years in the Art Lab in Sandton City in Joburg

Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground

An experimental creative space in the heart of Sandton, Standard Bank’s new Art Lab redefines how everyday audiences experience and engage with art

On the count of three: The Kyle Shepherd Trio on stage (left to right), Shepherd, Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman. (Supplied)

The Kyle Shepherd Trio: A jazz dance sweetly played

Kyle Shepherd Trio’s new album is packed with originals, covers, homages – and a guilty pleasure

Flicking through: Musician Msaki and artist and composer Neo Muyanga collaborate on her film Kuthi Mandithethe at Sounding Pictures, an exploration of live scores to short silent films.

Picturing the sounds of silence

Sound and silence collided in Sounding Pictures at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Joburg

In black and white: Zander Blom tells of the colour in his work

The artist’s new Joburg exhibition has drips and smears – it can scare you – but it can also make you feel light

A from mAnJE! MaNJe (an epic), which uses ancient stories as a lens through which to explore the human condition in an age of rapidly evolving technology, big data, AI and climate change catastrophe.

Past the future: Right here, right now-now theatre

A new play shows that, like Icarus, today’s tech-bro puppeteers such as Elon Musk seem hell-bent on flying too close to the sun

Striking: Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero was choreographed by Gregory Maqoma.

Diary: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero, BMW Art Generation, live scores to silent films

Your essential dose of art and culture

South African rapper and poet Tumi Molekane. Photo supplied

Diary: Kentridge auction, Africa Rising in Jozi, and Stogie T’s Shallow

Your essential dose of art and culture

Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

South African artist William Kentridge

Kentridge comes up for air in Cape Town

The renowned artist talks about inspiration, ideas, history and his new exhibition

Irma Stern’s ‘Arum Lilies and Bananas’ (1925)

Going, going, gone … for millions

South African artworks on a Strauss & Co auction are set to fetch some hefty prices

Loaded with meaning: ‘The Head & the Load’ by artist William Kentridge, with choreography by Gregory Maqoma, and music by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi, is about the plight of black African porters in World War I.  Photos: Stella Olivier

Gregory Maqoma and William Kentridge: Exploring the violence done to African bodies

Choreographer Gregory Maqoma navigates grief and trauma through tradition and dance in his collaboration with artist William Kentridge, The Head & The Load

Kentridge installation creates a procession through the heart of Sandton

The much anticipated The Head & The Load performance will be running at the Joburg Theatre from 23 April to 6 May 2023

William Kentridge in his studio in Joburg.(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

William Kentridge wows the world – and his centenarian father

William Kentridge’s star continues to rise, with big museum shows in Britain and America. Will it intensify his prices?

Visions with a Lover (1996) by Alfred Thoba
Photo: Strauss & Co

Cape Town braces for bidding wars

Rare art, pottery, jewellery and watches with price tags in the millions to go under the hammer for Cape Town Auction Week

Repurposed: The Ellis House Art Building (above) in Bertrams, Johannesburg, was previously a textile factory and houses galleries, studios, a coffee shop and curated spaces

Open Studios Joburg: Art for inner-city explorers

In the past few decades the Johannesburg inner city, like many urban centres worldwide, has become home to painters, photographers, printers and their imaginative brethren. In…

Circle of life: Place it on the Altar by Boitumelo Diseko. The artwork symbolises the New Testament God sacrificing his only son for our sins, so that we may be saved.

Portfolio: Boitumelo Diseko, artist and gallerist

Boitumelo Diseko has married her love of art and business by opening the B Artworks Gallery

Albert Ibokwe Khoza as Credo Mutwa in The Eye of Rre Mutwa, a Shmerah Passchier film screening as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City film programme.
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Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days

Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at