What is the real value of Ayanda Mabulu’s art?
Sale will paint picture of contemporary art value
Land - an endless obsession for artists
Land has featured in the artwork of many South African artists. It is an important, and recurring theme in art that distinctively South African.
SA artist’s twist on selfies
Changing Faces, a work from Michele Silk?s series, New Eve which looks at selfies.
Fringe art fair gives artists space to grow
The Joburg Fringe is not about pushing an anti-Joburg Art Fair agenda or challenging it, it is simply more artist-centric.
Meet the Post Apartheid Chief Gangster
Themba Shibase's exhibition at the National Arts Festival doesn't sugar-coat his opinion of politicians.
The overlooked literary landscape
The debate sparked by Thando Mgqolozana draws attention to all kinds of absences in our society, writes Mary Corrigall.
New generation’s genre-bending festival
At Wits University’s Detours festival, the contemporary dance and physical theatre works are presented by a new generation of artists.
Artists best placed to tackle statues
Given that the Rhodes statue is an artwork, it would be quite suitably cannibalised by artists, says Mary Corrigall.
Dress fillies divert attention from horses
Glitz and glamour abound as Cape Town plays host to the world’s biggest horse races
Going native
If there ever was a road to nowhere this is it. The infamous unfinished Eastern Boulevard freeway ends abruptly, challenging, mocking the function of the highway. ...
The politics of dance
‘Have I ever really danced at all?” reflected Faustin Linyekula, the renowned choreographer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during Le Cargo. It was ...
Trying to look like a woman can be a real sashaying drag
You get two kinds of drag queens. Those that are not supposed to be very convincing and those that can pass for a woman until they open their mouths or you spot ...
Unusually warm start to "11days of Amazing"
Cold weather is as much as part of the ambience of the National Arts Festival as the glut of posters that festoon almost every surface in Grahamstown.
Mimicking the master
Mary Corrigall reviews the exhibition in which the controversial The Spear brought notoriety to Brett Murray
In Defence of Paintings
Mary Corrigall looks at diverse attitudes|towards painting in two contrasting exhibitions
Double take
Candice Breitz’s new work is set in Generations, the soapy, |but will it reach the masses, asks Mary Corrigall
Rising from thedead
Prince Lamla has reinvigorated|a South African classic, writes Mary Corrigall
In search of authenticity
The Food, Wine Design Fair opens at the end of this month. Mary Corrigall takes a look at the artisanal food movement. What’s driving this demand for authenticity? ...
Me, myself & I
Mary Corrigall tries her hand at being a performer. Faustin Linyekula and William Kentridge prove useful, shedding light on the divide between observer and participant. ...
Creating new Impressions
Nathanial Stern puts a technological spin on an old favourite, writes Mary Corrigall
‘Us versus them’ – Miyeni’s mental apartheid
Eric Miyeni’s vitriolic Sowetan column brought to mind what must have been George W Bush’s most, and possibly only, powerful aphorism: “You are either with us, or ...
Power to the poor
Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa is fascinated by the cultures and habits of those who have to adapt to harsh circumstances, writes Mary Corrigall.
Middle-class drama
Play Me exposes the shallowvalues of a new social class,writes Mary Corrigall.
The root of evil
Mary Corrigall ponders the forces that shaped one of Shakespeare’s most malevolent characters, Richard III.