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Jazz rehersals at home. Zola Madyaka and Eric Nomvete.

Photography as a listening tool: Beata America puts it all on record

Beata America transforms photography into a medium of listening and memory in her Cabinet section, Record, at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair

Smooth jazz: Gregory Porter music bridges eras and emotions with sincerity and grace. Photo: Erik Umphery

Diary: Gregory Porter in SA; Zeitz MOCAA symposium; DJ Bob Jazz Club

Your essential dose of art and culture

Hip-hopping: The Back to the City Festival will take place in Johannesburg on 11 October. Photo: Supplied

Diary: Back to the City Festival; Babalwa Mentjies; A Protea Is Not a Flower

Your essential dose of art and culture

Have a blast: A saxophonist performs at a previous edition of Heritage Day celebrations. Photo: Supplied

Diary: Heritage Day at Zeitz MOCAA, Friends of Feya Faku in Durban, Poetry at Market Theatre

Your essential dose of art and culture

Consuming passion: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation garden for Fanon, in which earthworms turn a book by 20th-century political philosopher Frantz Fanon into soil. Photos: Anthea Pokroy

The garden that eats Frantz Fanon

Artist Nolan Oswald Dennis’s installation turns theory into soil, questioning who gets to decide what’s important — and why

Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer on 10 May, was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. Photo by Mirjam Kluka

‘A loss we cannot quantify’: The enduring legacy of Koyo Kouoh

Artists, fellow curators and friends reflect on the singular presence of Koyo Kouoh and the imprint she leaves behind

Wave goodbye: Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer on 10 May, was executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.

A love supreme: A requiem for Koyo Kouoh

Bongani Madondo remembers Koyo Kouoh as an activist and a community worker — and curator of collective futures

MaXhosa Africa takes over Zeitz MOCAA with A.S.T.O: A Pan-African fashion journey

This collection will play with the aesthetic, because ‘fashion is often taken too seriously’

A painting by South African artist Helen Sebidi. Photo by Güliz Özbek and Stephanie Veldman

African art needs more investment

Small donations can have a large positive knock-on effect for African artists and contribute to the economy through art tourism

Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA. Photo: Andile Buka

Unearthing stories and reawakening collective memories

Zeitz MOCAA exhibitions showcase histories of struggle, resistance and radical solidarity

Celebrating Africa’s art and soul

What does it mean to be African in the contemporary art world?

View from below: the Atrium looks gives the spectacular view of the museum’s silo’s. (Photos by Nicki Prium and Larnelle Bakala)

Proteas, delicious food and fashion combine at the Zeitz MOCAA Art & Opulence Gala

Elegant pink couches, flower chandeliers, sequins and silks form part of the gala’s aesthetics that marries Italian sensibilities with African vibes

Royal: Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco leave the Gucci shop in Rome in 1959. Photo: Reporters Association, Archivi/Mondadori Portfolio

The rise and fall of the fashion House of Gucci

The story of the Italian brand is one of drama, not only in its aesthetics, but in its chaotic rise to success

Strong convictions: Koyo Kouoh is the curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, which houses the largest private collection of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora in the world. (Mikhailia Petersen)

Curator celebrates black joy and aesthetics

The latest exhibition by Zeitz MOCAA’s Koyo Kouoh is a refreshing take on being black

In colour: Cheri Samba’s Une Femme Conduisant le Monde is part of the exhibition titled When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting, which opens at the Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town later this month.

When We See Us Celebrates 100 Years of Black figuration in painting

Inspired by the Ava DuVernay television series with a similar title, When We See Us is a conversation between black and African artists

Johannes Phokela’s mimicry of classical Western painting demands time to be convincing, an example being Ides of March (2015)

Johannes Phokela is on the comeback trail

A new exhibition at Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town should reinstate the talented artist as one of South Africa’s leading painters

On show: The Fashion Revolution exhibited clothes by the Swedish Institute at the Future of Fashion Symposium 2019. (Thabo Matsepane)

Weaving ethics into fashion

Fashion looks glamorous but it’s not. Behind the glitz is environmental and social damage

Dada Masilo, the renowned dancer, appears in Kentridge’s Notes towards a model opera (2015) which is included in the Zeitz Mocaa survey on the artist. (William Kentridge)

William Kentridge examines ‘hesitation’

The word “hesitate”, which recurs in the titles of both exhibitions of William Kentridge’s art at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (Zeitz Mocaa) — Why Should I…

As the most valuable piece of real estate in South Africa

The art of being opaque: Why Zeitz should open its books

The alleged improper conduct of the Zeitz MOCAA curator has raised questions about the transparency of a museum that is subsidised with public money