"The diamond needs to come to South Africa. It needs to be a sign of our pride, our heritage, and our culture," Mothusi Kamanga, a lawyer and activist in Johannesburg to Reuters.
The installation is a tribute to Uyinene Mrwetyana, a 19-year-old South African student, who was raped and murdered in 2019.
Casspirs in their heyday evoked anger, dread, and seething resentment. These behemoths remain formidable, although memory of them is negligible among the post-1994 "born free" generation. But Ziman's…
Rome has been waiting for contemporary works of public art that can stand up to the historic city’s glorious monuments from the Renaissance and antiquity. Where the architects Richard Meier and Zaha H…
South Africa was the first contry to abolish discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution. In "Isbonelo/Evidence" Zanele Muholi collaborates with fellow South African lesbian, gay, b…
Though it may appear archetypically modern—with unambiguous Duchamp references, no less—Robin Rhode’s public art, as depicted in photographic stop-action series, is a far more primordial…
“It is like jazz, yes, how I make my art,” said Kay Hassan, whose exhibition “Everyday People” is currently showing at Jack Shainman Gallery’s West 20th Street location in New York. “I find…
An ambitious, devastating, revelatory survey at the ICP is the first of several upcoming museum shows to explore how South African photography evolved from a document into a blunt instrument
"At times it seemed most everyone I met in South Africa had made or bought a print," said Judy Hecker, assistant curator in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at New York's Museum of Moder…