Four months before succumbing to his death, Hugh Masekela moved like a man determined to make his next meaningful contribution to music and our heritage in general.
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Looking at Mary Sibande’s Crescendo of Ecstasy
Mary Sibande’s new body of work investigates modes of liberating sculpture from its fate as a static form into a fluid, dynamic, and immersive experience.
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The divine message of Good News From Africa
Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and the great bassist and composer Johnny Dyani got together in 1973 to create a marvellous South African jazz record- Good News From Africa.
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The Ongoing Musical Moment in South African Art
Our art history has been subject to an ongoing moment; a perennial communion of artists with their eyes trained on the marvel and metaphor of musicians in performance. Their work captures the ongoing moment as a motif marshalled across time and media, form and feeling.
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Art after the Sharpeville Massacre
The Sharpeville massacre unleashed a generation of artists driven to express their moral outrage; it was more than a turning point in the story of South Africa’s fight for freedom.
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Art and the Myanmar Protest Movement
There is a flowering of creative activism blooming on the protest-charged streets of Myanmar. Alongside burning barricades and army raids, a new generation of artists is creating new ways for art to serve the pro-democracy protest movement.
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Wayfinding, Portia Zvavahera in Johannesburg
Zvavahera is presenting a new collection of paintings under the title ‘Wayfinding’. Her paintings may be understood as a reference to religion’s propensity to offer paths of escape and to painting’s own capacity for catharsis.
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Which Way is East? Mongezi Ncaphayi
Ncaphayi’s new paintings present us with boundless energy that points to crafting a cartography towards the profound and the sublime in an age of trivial joys and the politics of popular bruising.
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Alphabets of Fire
Lefifi Tladi’s vast body of work cuts across painting in the abstract expressionist tradition, figurative drawings and forays into calligraphic modernism – ink-on-paper forms that he calls Alphabets of Fire.
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Jazz dancing and pantsula perfection
The gifted dancer as soloist improviser is a feature of black vernacular culture beyond the jazz session, though. The working women and men’s bodies as a site of gestured text come alive during protest as toyi-toyi, too.
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