Buildings with humans at their heart
South Africa’s architects may be low-key at Venice but their designs are helping correct social injustices
The ANC now shops on Sundays
The doctrine of the ‘broad church’ is increasingly giving way to Darwinian politics
Story of South Africa’s first black Olympians keeps us guessing
A single image shows Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani took part in the 1904 marathon but it cannot tell their story.
Zapiro’s hurdy-gurdy a no-go show
Colonial tropes still haunt our racially divided society, writes Sean O’Toole.
Migrants: Unexpected guests trapped in time and space
The outsider has always held a fascination for artists and writers, helping to shape our view of those who exist in a state of perpetual transition.
Brett Murray: Small on penises, big on satire
Kicks and pricks aside, can Brett Murray’s work ever be read ignoring the brouhaha his Spear painting caused? The short answer: Maybe.
When art and the Bible meet, nothing is sacred
By vandalising the holy text, two South African artists have created a new interpretation of it.
How selfies are changing the way we see ourselves and the world
Even funerals and pilgrimages are falling prey to the compulsion to self-snap, writes Sean O’Toole.
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Monstrous shades colours perceptions about role of art
A new sculpture that neatly aligns commercial interests with art and our history has the twitterati frothing about apparent opportunism.
Zooming in on Namibia’s fashionable, young OvaHimba men
Photographer Kyle Weeks’ portraits offer a reconstituted view of the OvaHimba as participants in modern and independent Namibia, writes Sean O’Toole.