Sean O'Toole

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

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

‘This ethereal portrait also miniaturizes Mofokeng’s quest for affinity and understanding in a world dogged by shadow’

Debates around restitution are breaking with increasing force against the doors of Europe’s treasure chambers; a new report may prove decisive

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 

At MACAAL, one of Marrakech’s many new cultural spaces, a rich photo survey rooted in journalistic, historical and anthropological enquiry

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