Sean O’Toole is a contributing editor of frieze, based in Cape Town, South Africa.
At the Norval Foundation, Cape Town, the artist’s recent paintings refer to the contentious 2017 re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta
With violence on the rise against Nigerians and other foreign nationals, artists are struggling to find ways to respond
The artist, curator, educator and writer, who died on 30 June, was committed to supporting South Africa’s younger artists
A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’
‘This ethereal portrait also miniaturizes Mofokeng’s quest for affinity and understanding in a world dogged by shadow’
A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid
In the face of 'hyena politics', five artists from the Zimbabwean capital who explore the human form as a symbol of resistance
What use is art when there is no water? Sean O’Toole, Hou Hanru and Barbara Casavecchia on responding to the challenges that this year brings
Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
With a host of new private museums opening in Cape Town, Sean O’Toole considers the impact on the local arts scene while Amie Soudien explores the city’s burgeoning grassroots arts spaces
The context and legacy of Jean-Hubert Martin’s contentious 1989 exhibition, ‘Magiciens de la terre’
Curator Raphael Gygax brings together eleven artists from eight countries for this year’s Frieze Projects
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
A remarkable Beauford Delaney show to black women artists collective iQhiya: a few small reasons to whisper hallelujah
The controversy surrounding the current exhibition at the Iziko South African National Gallery
The award-winning dancer and choreographer reveals plans to fund a water-treatment facility in the Congolese city of Kisangani
Sean O'Toole considers the activism finding its way into the city's art scene
