At 88 the artist Esther Mahlangu is world famous and is the subject of a major exhibition in Cape Town.
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INTERwoven TEXTures is a breakthrough exhibition. Here’s a review of it.
He worked tirelessly to promote art and teach artists.
His work can only be fully understood by observing the shared traditions of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
An installation at Tate Modern and two other shows in London are cementing the artist’s global reputation.
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.
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.
Using found materials from dump sites, the large scale works examine the residues of colonialism.
Mwili, Akili na Roho represents 50 years of art from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania – from 1950 to 2000.
On in South Africa at the Encounters film festival, the documentary is an intimate portrait of the great artist.
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.
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.
A new art exhibition in Johannesburg mines the rich intersections between Mozambique, South Africa and Portugal.
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Postdoctoral Fellow with the NRF/DST SARChI Chair Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Art and researcher, University of Nigeria
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Doctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Kenyatta University
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PhD candidate in Art History, Rhodes University
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Lecturer of Political Science, University of Mpumalanga
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Senior Lecturer in Photography, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
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Director of Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project, Associate Professor at Africa Institute Sharjah & Associate Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University
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Lecturer in Fine Arts, Universidade de Lisboa
