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Vusumzi Nkomo
AVA GALLERY

The sculptures where nothing is true and everything is permitted

Recent shows by the sculptors Nolan Oswald Dennis, Vusumzi Nkomo and Diana Vives make for fascinating viewing

  • Sean O Toole
10 min read
View from below: the Atrium looks gives the spectacular view of the museum’s silo’s. (Photos by Nicki Prium and Larnelle Bakala)
DESIGN

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

  • Kimberley Schoeman
6 min read
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Photo supplied
ARCHITECTURE

The art of architecture: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Opened five years ago, Cape Town’s Zeitz Mocaa was once a storage building for grain

  • Kimberley Schoeman
10 min read
The Zeitz MOCAA museum at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa(Photo by: Marc Hoberman/Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
GUCCI GALA

Booked your seats for the Zeitz MOCAA Gucci gala?

With the much-anticipated Art & Opulence-themed celebration taking place in just a couple of weeks at the museum of contemporary African art, here’s how to get a ticket

  • Sonri Naidoo
2 min read
Inside look at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. Picture: Supplied
ART AMP OPULENCE

Zeitz Gala celebrates black excellence in art

The Zeitz MOCAA Gucci Gala, themed Art & Opulence, will host some of South Africa and Africa’s biggest names in fashion, design, entertainment and art

  • Bongeka Gumede
4 min read
The Zeitz MOCAA museum at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa(Photo by: Marc Hoberman/Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa partners with Gucci to put on its first annual fundraising gala

Art & Opulence-themed event will preview an new exhibition titled When We See Us

  • Bongeka Gumede
4 min read
Ciao Bella Ms Cast: Venus Baartman, 2001. Courtesy of the artist and Dan Gunn, London
SHOOTING DOWN BABYLON

The ‘calling’ of Tracey Rose

The artist’s retrospective exhibition at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa covers her 30-year career during which she has challenged and subverted everything from racism to…

  • Carl Collison
14 min read
Accountability in the spotlight: Writer Matthew Blackman
ART COLLECTOR JOCHEN ZEITZ

How Mark Coetzee’s resignation may lift the lid on the arts industry’s practices

Matthew Blackman shares his misgivings about Zeitz MOCAA’s operations and the parallels with South African society.

  • Arts Desk
7 min read
The collision of commercial interests of art fairs and the activism of artists dealing with contemporary issues was illustrated when Ayanda Mabulu’s painting was briefly removed at the 2013 Joburg Art Fair
A4 ARTS FOUNDATION

The fine art of domesticating a revolution

As much as artists might rebel against it, art fairs and private enterprise are the new drivers

  • Sean Otoole
6 min read
‘A machine for culture’: Artist’s impressions of the design by Thomas Heatherwick for the art museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
V AMP A WATERFRONT

Zeitz Museum set to become Cape Town’s ‘centrepiece’

English designer Thomas Heatherwick shares his vision for Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which he describes as a place of imagination.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read