ART AFRICA

Above Nadine Gordimer’s writing desk is a Teke mask, from the Congo. It’s been hanging there, since she steamed up the Congo River in 1960. The mask is flat, with curvilinear and geometric designs, says

In May 1960, the members of Polly Street Art Centre were seen as independent artists at an exhibition of Urban African Art organised by the Johannesburg Committee of the Union Festival.

In the last decade new manifestations of documentary photography have emerged that allow for more creative responses to what was a highly conventionalised genre. This is significant in a medium that remained largely unchanged in

In this brave new world of global media kings and high gloss publications, what has replaced the homebrewed cultural zine of yesteryear? Perhaps the angry poets and leftfield editors with ink stains on their fingers

In June 1995 a new Afrikaans-language porn magazine, published by the owners of the South African edition of Hustler, hit the market. The title, Loslyf, roughly translates as “loose body”.

Penny Siopis, an artist and Professor of Fine Arts at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand, will be the subject of an extensive monograph published by the Goodman Gallery.

Ever since French fashion designer Paul Poiret let his love of Russian Impressionist paintings spill over into his dress designs, there’s been an undeniable borrowing of art in the fashion world.