Search
Welcome
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
Not a subscriber? Subscribe here
Register Now
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
                       
Careers & Tenders
Newsletters
Subscribe
The Mail & Guardian
      SUBSCRIBE / Support independent journalism                   CAREERS & TENDERS / Visit careers.mg.co.za                   WHATSAPP? / Follow the M&G WhatsApp channel here            
Login / Register

LOGIN

  • News
    • Africa
    • Business
    • Editorial
    • Education
    • Health
    • Motoring
    • National
    • Sci-tech
    • Sport
    • World
  • Thought Leader
  • Politics
  • Green Guardian
  • Friday
  • Features
    • Buthelezi, the King’s Hand
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2023
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2012-2021
    • The Fiscal Cliff
  • Partners
  • Power of Women 2024
  • Events
    • 200 Young South Africans
    • Greening The Future
    • Power Of Women
      • 2024 Edition
    • Youth Summit
    • Critical Thinking Forum
    • Webinars
  • More..
    • Podcasts
    • Digital Editions
    • Crossword
    • WhatsApp Channel
    • Register
    • Login
    • Lost Password

           

Visual Arts

Diary: Generation of Hope,  Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible
Friday
/ 13 September 2024

Diary: Generation of Hope, Balinese Girl, Choreographies of the Impossible

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Stephen Hobbs: Of man-made forests and the hidden work of fungi
Friday
/ 29 August 2024

Stephen Hobbs: Of man-made forests and the hidden work of fungi

Exhibition delves into the connections and balance between urban life and nature

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Stephané Edith Conradie’s exhibition opens at the Standard Bank Gallery, Poetry Africa returns in October,  Fizzy B releases Abahlali
Friday
/ 29 August 2024

Diary: Stephané Edith Conradie’s exhibition opens at the Standard Bank Gallery, Poetry Africa returns in October,  Fizzy B releases Abahlali

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Baz-Art celebrates women muralists, bringing jazz to Durban, ZiiBeats vol. 2 drops
Friday
/ 9 August 2024

Diary: Baz-Art celebrates women muralists, bringing jazz to Durban, ZiiBeats vol. 2 drops

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN
Friday
/ 5 August 2024

Diary: She Fest comes to Constitutional Hill, Soweto’s Buskaid String Ensemble in concert,  Lu Dlamini to perform at UKZN

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape
‘We killed it with our doccie’
Friday
/ 15 July 2024

‘We killed it with our doccie’

Youngsters’ film about Thokoza gets an enthusiastic reception at a festival in Portugal

By Tebadi Mmotla
Stephané Conradie: Objects of our lives as signposts for the future
Friday
/ 21 June 2024

Stephané Conradie: Objects of our lives as signposts for the future

Artist transforms everyday objects as into poignant narratives exploring identity and heritage

By Lesego Chepape
Basha Uhuru under the theme 30 years of creative freedom, Dates for Joburg Art Fair, With-Out Limits at UJ
Friday
/ 21 June 2024

Basha Uhuru under the theme 30 years of creative freedom, Dates for Joburg Art Fair, With-Out Limits at UJ

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape and Charles Leonard
The stage is set for a cracker of a National Arts Festival 
Friday
/ 18 June 2024

The stage is set for a cracker of a National Arts Festival 

National Arts Festival continues to create platforms for creatives, 50 years later

By Lesego Chepape
Diary: Kesivan in the Cape, Boundless at Kalashnikov,  and Stogie T headlines Fête de la Musique
Friday
/ 13 June 2024

Diary: Kesivan in the Cape, Boundless at Kalashnikov, and Stogie T headlines Fête de la Musique

Your essential dose of art and culture

By Lesego Chepape and Charles Leonard
Internationally acclaimed photographer Lebohang Kganye exhibits locally
Friday
/ 12 March 2024

Internationally acclaimed photographer Lebohang Kganye exhibits locally

The show is in two parts – sculptures outdoors and artworks in Boschendal’s Manor House

By Lesego Chepape
Spotlight on new faces of Nigeria’s art scene
Friday
/ 3 August 2022

Spotlight on new faces of Nigeria’s art scene

David Otaru is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist canvassing his lived experiences in his upcoming exhibition ‘Face-Me-I-Face-You’

By Elvis Kachi
Art and about: 10 art fairs not to miss
Article
/ 28 January 2015

Art and about: 10 art fairs not to miss

With the local art fair season about to kick off, we highlight some of the country’s – and Africa’s – most happening visual art events.

By stefanie jason
Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too
Article
/ 6 February 2014

Apartheid: Defiance was a dapper struggle, too

Bongani Madondo searches for elegance in a vast exhibition of photographic material documenting life in apartheid South Africa.

By Bongani Madondo
Art collecting with Albie Sachs
Article
/ 6 February 2014

Art collecting with Albie Sachs

Former Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs is bound to art and politics by love and lineage. He chats about this and his years of art collecting.

By stefanie jason
An artist who lived to dispel the dark arts
Article
/ 30 January 2014

An artist who lived to dispel the dark arts

Shunned by the serious arts establishment, ?Paul du Toit embraced the naive and innocent.

By Staff Reporter
The beauty of life after death
Article
/ 5 September 2013

The beauty of life after death

Bronwyn Lace breathes new meaning into ?the detritus of ?once-living things.

By Laurice Taitz
Thing of beauty: We Love Mandela exhibition
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Thing of beauty: We Love Mandela exhibition

SA artists have used the figure of Nelson Mandela as their muse and metaphor, depicting the many sides of the man people believe they know well.

By Matthew Krouse and Lauren Clifford-Holmes
Mongezi Ncaphayi: Striking art is his raison d’être
Article
/ 26 July 2013

Mongezi Ncaphayi: Striking art is his raison d’être

Award-winning artist Mongezi Ncaphayi draws his audience in, hooking them in to a deeper reflection.

By Matthew Krouse
Absa L’Atelier Awards: Cruel jokes and abstract lives
Article
/ 19 July 2013

Absa L’Atelier Awards: Cruel jokes and abstract lives

The Absa L’Atelier Awards are highly prized by young artists who may not have the resource to go abroad.

By Matthew Krouse
3D-printing takes art into another dimension
Article
/ 5 July 2013

3D-printing takes art into another dimension

An exhibition opening at the University of Johannesburg aims to bring the 3D-printing movement into the public conversation.

By Sarah Wild
Tate Modern opens doors to African visionaries
Article
/ 2 July 2013

Tate Modern opens doors to African visionaries

Exhibitions of works by artists from Sudan and Benin have reflected a step change towards Tate’s more globalised view of modern art.

By Jonathan Jones
Thing of beauty: Art in the city
Article
/ 28 June 2013

Thing of beauty: Art in the city

Hannelie Coetzee’s work spills out of her studio and into the surrounding streets.

By Laurice Taitz
The art of taxi hand signals
Article
/ 28 June 2013

The art of taxi hand signals

A new exhibition reveals the silent language used by millions of South Africans to travel through life.

By Laurice Taitz
Mandela painting stolen from SA-born artist in New York
Article
/ 24 June 2013

Mandela painting stolen from SA-born artist in New York

The theft of a painting of Nelson Mandela by South Africa-born artist Conor Mccreedy remains a mystery after it was stolen from a New York gallery.

By Khuthala Nandipha
No image available
Article
/ 20 June 2013

Mary Sibande: The purple shall reign at Grahamstown’s arts fest

Mary Sibande is moving on from a familiar character in her oeuvre and, by exploring an historical event, is digging for deeper meaning.

By Matthew Krouse
Kudzanai Chiurai considers the nature of violence
Article
/ 14 June 2013

Kudzanai Chiurai considers the nature of violence

Kudzanai Chiurai’s exhibition titled "16SNLV" encourages people to scrutinise their reactions to everyday brutality.

By Laurice Taitz
Mandela makes history on the streets of Jo’burg
Article
/ 14 June 2013

Mandela makes history on the streets of Jo’burg

The public figure of Nelson Mandela has returned to Johannesburg in Marco Cianfanelli’s newly unveiled sculpture, Shadow Boxing.

By Laurice Taitz
SA artist wins major award at Art Basel
Article
/ 12 June 2013

SA artist wins major award at Art Basel

Kemang Wa Lehulere is one of two young artists awarded the 15th Bâloise prize at the 2013 Art Basel fair.

By Staff Reporter
Thing of beauty: The Be Careful pop-up book
Article
/ 7 June 2013

Thing of beauty: The Be Careful pop-up book

Local artist Stephen Hobbs is a kind of latter-day Piet Mondrian in our midst.

By Matthew Krouse
Pamela Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Nkosi: Contrasts that complement
Article
/ 4 June 2013

Pamela Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Nkosi: Contrasts that complement

Artists Pamela Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Nkosi explore the notion of heroes and future mythologies in their "solo-collaborative" exhibition.

By stefanie jason
Sekoto’s song builds up to an imperfect cadence
Article
/ 31 May 2013

Sekoto’s song builds up to an imperfect cadence

It is time to celebrate Sekoto’s place in South African art history, but this major exhibition doesn’t get it quite right, writes Rory Bester.

By Rory Bester
← Older posts

MAIL & GUARDIAN

ABOUT

About
Contact
Advertise

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Subscribe
Newsletters

FOLLOW

WhatsApp Channel
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
Threads

FLAGSHIP EVENTS

200 Young South Africans
Power Of Women
Greening The Future

LEGAL & CORRECTIONS

Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
Ethics & Social Media Policy

RESOURCES

Mail & Guardian Careers
Property for sale


Mail & Guardian

© 2024 The Mail & Guardian. All rights reserved.

  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.