The subject matter of photographer, activist and breast cancer survivor Tracey Derrick is often concerned with the outsider, whether it’s refugees, the 1 in 9 women who will develop breast cancer or sex workers.
THIS year marks the 350th year of Castle of Good Hope, which is in the process of being submitted to UNESCO to be listed as a World Heritage Site. It’s also the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March to the
STUDIO: Celebrating the Lives and Works of South African Artists in an exhibition which draws from Iziko SA National Gallery Permanent Collection curated by Yentl Kohler, Philippa Coleman (art educators) w
HOME TRUTHS. DOMESTIC INTERIORS IN SOUTH AFRICAN COLLECTIONS. An exhibition curated by Michael Godby at the Iziko South African Gallery until October 23. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews.
SOLO STUDIOS. Intimate art encounters in the Riebeek Valley. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews
SHARDS, shipwrecks and skies in indigo inform this exhibition of prints, paintings and porcelain by designer and gallery owner Michael Chandler and atmospheric soundtracks by composer Nick Marcus –Robb that accompany
The District Six Museum Homecoming Centre acknowledges District Six’s 50th anniversary. Lucinda Jolly contextualises.
Last year, the exhibition It begins with Battiss at The New Church contemporary art museum exhibited not only works by Walter Battiss, but also artists “whose production shares an affinity with the merging o
FEBRUARY in Cape Town is synonymous with turbulence – gale force winds and prickly heat.
The 4th edition of the Cape Town Art Fair will be showcased at the CTICC from Friday to Sunday. Lucinda Jolly previews.
FOUR years ago the late Peter Clarke artist, poet, writer and recipient of the National Order of Ikhamanga had a retrospective exhibition at the Iziko National Gallery.
Beyond the line: An exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Dumile Feni at Gallery Momo until Saturday. Lucinda Jolly reviews
“WE all have two sides, one dark and the other light,” says photographer Jodi Bieber, who is probably best known for her iconic photograph of the 19-year old Afghan woman Bibi Aisha with the severed ears and no
There is a bronze age pre-Columbian tribe, unconquered by the Spanish conquistadors, who live high up in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta called the Kogis.
BORN more than a century ago, landscape painter Moses Taldi was the first black artist to be shown at the Iziko National Gallery in 1931.
It’s a year just short of half a century since Irma Stern exhibited as a living artist.
A collaborative art installation investigating fracking at Iziko Natural History Museum featuring Deborah Weber, Damien Schumann, Elgin Rust, Gina Waldman, Margaret Stone, Maxim Starcke, Lisa Bauer, Michelle Liao, Tom Glen
SANLAM PORTRAIT AWARD COMPETITION. At the Rust- en-Vrede gallery curated by John Hundt until October 8. LUCINDA JOLLY reviews.
“Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said,” once commented Louise Bourgeois.
There is a dark, sticky quality about Cinga Samson’s paintings, both figuratively and literally.
PENNY SIOPIS’S current exhibition comes on the not quite cool heels of her first extensive retrospective Time and Again at the Iziko National Gallery at the beginning of this year, which was dedicated to the artist&#
There's a Chinese proverb that says, "women hold up half the sky".
"You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it," an unknown author once said.
"Sadly, we live in a world where if you do good things, there are no financial rewards.
Nico Krijno, photographer of the exhibition New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed, has been nominated for this year's Foam Paul Huf Award, which platforms up-and-coming photographic talent.
