Issue 206

Some thoughts on transience, in art and life

‘Kara Walker reinvents painting and drawing’s conventions, while talking about ideas that are epic in scale and deep in blood,’ Als writes

As the artist’s largest survey to date opens at Zeitz MoCAA and Norval Foundation, Cape Town, Sean O’Toole examines his dadaist lexicon 

In a special photo essay, the artist places her body ‘in the line of danger, admiration, rejection, description’

The artist’s physically gruelling performances reflect on the black body and the possibilities of resurrection

The restless, rageful ‘No Home Record’ lures as much as it discomfits

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Reading all day 

‘Surge’ finds uneasy resonances between the 1981 New Cross fire and more recent tragedies

Motion and migration in the paintings of Frank Bowling

Mimi Chu on Robertas Narkus, Nástio Mosquito, Nora Turato and more

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

In Harding’s paintings and sculpture, the past and the present merge in a potent reflection on contemporary Australia

Drawing on his dancer’s training, Laris Cohen radically presents his body simply ‘as is’ in his performances

Barbara Casavecchia on the 2019 Golden Lion-winning artist

As the playwright’s ‘Slave Play’ reaches a wider audience, Jameson Fitzpatrick looks at his work so far