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Pierre Fouché, Histeries, 2017. Encaustic on wood laminate

Movement Ensnared: Pierre Fouché’s ‘Vreesaanjaende Verligting’

2017 Standard Bank Young Artist for Performance Art, Dineo Seshee Bopape at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown

Singing History: Dineo Seshee Bopape’s ‘Sa Koša Ke Lerole’

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967. From a portfolio of ten screenprints on paper. Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc

The Relevance of Warhol: ‘Warhol Unscreened’ at WAM

Sharlene Khan, Nervous Conditions I, 2013. Video installation, 20 mins

Offerings from the Post-colony: ‘Looking After Freedom’ at Michaelis Galleries

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Ronald Muchatuta at The AVA Gallery

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August 18, 2017

WAM: Family Talkabout: Special Screenprint Edition

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August 17, 2017

Craig A Smith at Kalashnikovv Gallery

NIGHT by ROADHOUSE

Nick Cave film screening at Warren Editions

Peju Alatise

Peju Alatise Wins FNB Art Prize 2017

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Sue Williamson, Messages from the Atlantic Passage. Installation view: Basel Unlimited 2017

Sue Williamson’s Diary: Last month at Art Basel

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

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List of artists participating in Rencontres de Bamako

The Rhinos Are Coming | Call for submissions

Eric van Hove, Mahjouba, 2016. Photo: Alessio Mei. Courtesy the artist and VOICE Gallery, Marrakech

1:54 London 2017 | Announcing the Galleries

Call for applications | ROOM residencies

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Sarah Biggs, Paradise, departing, 2016. Oil on paper, 77 x 62 cm

Material Friction: Sarah Biggs’s ‘Waiting for Rain’

Katleho Kano Shoro, BA TENG: YourSelves ECHO, 2017. Installation with poem, installation by Tristan Nebe

Curiosity and Connection: ‘Calibrating Wonder*’ at SMITH Studio

Beth Diane Armstrong, ‘in perpetuum’. Installation view: Grahamstown National Arts Festival

Overlaps and Organisms: Beth Diane Armstrong’s ‘in perpetuum’

Kemang Wa Lehulere, Every Song, 2017. Wall carving

The Songs We are Taught to Sing: Kemang Wa Lehulere’s ‘Bird Song’

in brief_

R.I.P. Gasworks & Triangle Network founder Robert Loder

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

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SWEAT protestors at the beginning of the trial in 2014 Picture: Aletta Harrison/EWN.

Mthethwa Trial | Sentencing Transcript

SWEAT protestors at the beginning of the trial in 2014 Picture: Aletta Harrison/EWN.

Mthethwa Trial | Sentencing Postponed, Bail Denied

SWEAT protestors at the beginning of the trial in 2014 Picture: Aletta Harrison/EWN.

Mthethwa Trial | Judgement transcript

Mthethwa Trial Judgement in brief