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Weights and Measures: Ruann Coleman’s ‘Certain Lengths’

Mounir Fatmi Mother Language, 2017. Steel blade and cut outs 150 cm diameter

Shadows on the Moon: Mounir Fatmi’s ‘Fragmented Memory’

Agency and Amor Fati: Michael MacGarry’s ‘Show No Pain’

Bearers of Memory: Georges Senga Assani’s ‘Cette maison n’est pas à vendre et à vendre’

what we like_

Open Call | Residency

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June 26, 2017

AVA Gallery | Call for submissions

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June 18, 2017

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, Farm Jonkershoek with Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch

Prime views: Strauss & Co sale features exceptional landscapes by SA masters

Applications open for the 2017 Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop

The Telegraph reviews Lisa Brice’s solo at Stephen Friedman

Orms Cape Town School of Photography | Call for Applications

where we're going_

WAM Talkabout

One Colour at a Time at WAM

Museum Night V&A Waterfront

Carla Inez Espost, Bettie & Clive, 2012.

Group exhibition at Gallery MOMO

insight_

Invisible, Intangible, Insensible: Barbara Wildenboer’s ‘The Invisible Gardener’

Swain Hoogervorst, Incomplete (Forest) III, 2017. Oil on Canvas

Ends and Means: Swain Hoogervorst’s ‘Searching Eudaimonia’

Musa N. Nxumalo, Isigxagxa I, 2017. Gicleé print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag

Stranded Action: Musa N Nxumalo’s ’16 Shots’

Tabita Rezaire, DEEP DOWN TIDAL(still), 2017. Hd video, 19min. Commissioned by Toke Lykkeberg for Citizen X – Human, Nature, And Robot Rights, Oregaard Museum, Denmark

Digital Utopia: Tabita Rezaire’s ‘Exotic Trade’

in brief_

Venice Biennale | Part 3

The entrance to the Giardini

Venice Biennale 2017 | Part 2

One of the super-yachts lined up on the Riva dei Sette Martiri, on the way to the Giardini.

Venice Biennale 2017 | Part 1

Remembering Barend de Wet

in lite_

The MAC-VAL Museum

Sue Williamson’s Diary: Paris in the Springtime

Johannesburg’s Apartheid Museum, with the new art gallery jutting into the skyline on the right.

Sue Williamson’s Diary: John Berger and the Apartheid Museum

Okwui Enwezor and Artur Walther at the Performa gala

Sue Williamson’s Diary: An interview with Okwui

Sue Williamson’s Diary: An interview with Camille Morineau

in pictures & video_

Art-Binge: Joburg, April 2017

Art-Binge: Joburg, March 2017

Art-Binge: Joburg, November 2016

Art-Binge: Cape Town, October(ish) 2016