Esther Mahlangu at the retrospective of her work at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
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At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
Victor Ekpuk (centre) became the first African artist to show a public sculpture in the United Arab Emirates.
Courtesy Courtesy Efiɛ Gallery
INTERwoven TEXTures is a breakthrough exhibition. Here’s a review of it.
John Hlatywayo has passed away at the age of 96.
Courtesy Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti
He worked tirelessly to promote art and teach artists.
The Ora Loapi space at the 2023 Joburg Art Fair featured Shepherd Ndudzo’s work.
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His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Behind the Red Moon, a large scale sculptural installation at the Tate Turbine Hall in London.
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An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
A World In Common at Tate Modern.
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A World in Common is a European exhibition with African content, rather than a space that invites conversations and engagement that go beyond the images themselves.
The artist El Anatsui at 70 in 2013.
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A major new show at the Tate Modern in London in October will further cement his fame as one of the most important African artists in the world.
Moffat Takadiwa, left, and curator Fadzai Muchemwa in front of the work Bhiro ne Bepa on his solo show Vestiges of Colonialism.
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Using found materials from dump sites, the large scale works examine the residues of colonialism.
Untitled by Ugandan artist Peter Mulindwa.
James Muriuki courtesy Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute
Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.
Cesária Évora on stage in the new documentary by Ana Sofia Fonseca.
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On in South Africa at the Encounters film festival, the documentary is an intimate portrait of the great artist.
The Johannesburg version of the library.
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With vinyl records, zines and political posters instead of just books, The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember offers a way to reimagine African history.
Vusamazulu.
Artwork © Sindiso Nyoni
His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present.
Ângela Ferreira’s ‘Wattle and Daub’ - performance by Selma Uamusse at ‘Old School’, Lisbon in February 2016.
Vera Marmelo
A new art exhibition in Johannesburg mines the rich intersections between Mozambique, South Africa and Portugal.