Two churches and a cricket field

This year’s virtual National Arts Festival exhibition Sounding the Land attempts to mine a sliver of that history to better make sense of...

07 Jul

Vintage Mazwai Magic: Better than great

Few singer songwriters can claim the space that Thandiswa Mazwai commands in our national consciousness. She is a keeper of a sacred...

06 Jul

Making Grace Amazing: Songs of resistance

Reminiscent of the Negro spirituals of the South, the song; Amazing Grace has long been a beloved companion, offering encouragement in...

07 Jul

Remembering is deliberate: resisting the erasure of Bev Ditsie

Bev Ditsie is one of South Africa’s most influential queer leaders and the executor of many firsts. However, many of her successes have...

06 Jul

Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, 91, dies

Ennio Morricone, one of the world's best-known and most prolific film composers, died in Rome on Monday.

06 Jul

Redacted portraits, temporary solutions: on the work of Lunga Ntila

Lunga Ntila then, is both ghost and looker, working in the tradition of self-portraiture as well as in digital collage, a process in...

03 Jul

WATCH | New York City scrambles to save protest art as city reopens

As New York City reopens, a push is on to save the anti-racism messages painted on plywood during the Black Lives Matter protests.

05 Jul

Veteran playwright Welcome Msomi, 76, dies

The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture confirmed in a statement to the media that veteran playwright Welcome Msomi has died.

05 Jul

George Hallett left an archive of pride and joy

George Hallett, the veteran South African photographer commissioned to document the onset of democracy, died in Cape Town aged 78.

02 Jul

Zoë Modiga's "Inganekwane" reflects on the myth of blackness

Inganekwane, the singer-songwriters sophomore solo album, marks a creative and linguistic turning point as she embraces her mother-tongue.

26 Jun

Love songs and lamentations: How Kemang Wa Lehulere expands the canon

The fractured and deconstructed installations of found objects and ephemeral drawings that characterise Kemang Wa Lehulere’s work speak...

22 Jun

'I’m good, love, better than good' - Nakhane talks to Simphiwe Dana about her latest release, Bamako

In this honest conversation between the two musicians, Nakhane and Simphiwe Dana discuss her latest release, Bamako.

29 May

Mamela Nyamza's Pest control is a protest piece that is deeply personal

The day Mamela Nyamza’s new work, Pest Control, which premiered on the day she was meant to hear the arbitration of her dismissal from...

29 Jun

OPINION | Conrad Koch: 'I grew up loving Leon Schuster. He’s an icon of our racist society'

I grew up loving Leon Schuster. He’s an icon of our racist society. In fact, unlearning the racism, unpacking what apartheid taught me as...

01 Jul

Azibuye: Documenting dispossession in 360

In Azibuye – The Occupation, documentary filmmaker Dylan Valley sets up his tripod and 360° camera in a dilapidated mansion on top of one...

01 Jul

Collier croons and plays the cold away

Multi Grammy award winning singer-songwriter Jacob Collier's idiosyncratic use of reharmonisation proves why he's this year headline act...

29 Jun

Beyond 1976: Crying for justice through art

Atiyyah Khan looks at how films like Action Kommandant and The Imam and I, as well as the art of Haroon Gunn-Salie complicate memory and...

18 Jun

Encounters Festival to open with Bell Pottinger documentary, Influence

The 2020 edition of the Encounters Documentary Festival will run virtually between 20 - 30 August, opening with Influence, a political...

27 Jun