South Africa

After a recent fire at the University of Cape Town’s library destroyed irreplaceable books and archival documents, South African artists consider how to redefine the meaning of the archive

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

Several exhibitions across the city ask: do we need another hero?

Exotic flora and tentative ‘Afronauts’ speak to a sense of alienation, but throughout the artist’s work runs a current of optimism 

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI, The Head & The Load at Tate Modern makes incomprehension the work’s guiding theme

A tribute to the late South African photographer, creator of idiosyncratic portrayals of everyday life under the yoke of apartheid

Mark Coetzee, the director of Africa's largest contemporary art museum, resigns following investigation into abusive behaviour

70 years since apartheid became law in South Africa, a retrospective of the photographer's work opens at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

‘We wanted to seize the moment’, Caroline Douglas said

David Goldblatt discusses representation, censorship and his decision to remove his archive from the University of Cape Town

From art under apartheid to a new novel from Walt Whitman: what to read this weekend

South Afrian artist Tracey Rose's searing performances raise tough questions around history and race

A visit to Liza Lou’s studio in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Is it time to eschew the word 'criticism'?

What early 20th Century painters omitted from their representation of South Africa

Is technology geographically neutral?

Africa’s first mega-museum to open in Cape Town

Biography and timeliness in the work of Moshekwa Langa

The philosopher Achille Mbembe once called Johannesburg the ‘elusive metropolis’. From emerging project spaces to women’s labour issues, Sean O’Toole and Gabi Ngcobo report on this constantly changing city of 4.5 million inhabitants, in which a strong photographic tradition — that includes David Goldblatt, Zanele Muholi and Santu Mofokeng — provides something of an anchor