Book Club Sessions and Children's Show
Ronald Muchatuta
8 Apr 2021
The artists who will represent Zimbabwe at the 59th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in 2022 have...
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Celebrating Women in the Arts
French Embassay
7 Apr 2021
On 31 March 2021, Ambassador of France to South Africa, Aurélien Lechevallier, hosted an art viewing event to celebrate women...
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Top Zimbabwean artists up for Venice Biennale
By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
26 Mar 2021
Zimbabwean contemporary artists Ronald Muchatuta, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Terrence Musekiwa and Wallen Mapondera are up for Venice Biennale showcase beginning in...
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ARTIST ADEJOKE TUGBIYELE ON YORUBA PERFORMANCE AESTHETIC, WEAVING A NEW BROOM AND QUEERING THE TRADITIONAL
An Interview with Wana Udobang
2 Mar 2021
Artist Adejoke Tugbiyele creates these sculptures that combine her signature material, the African broom along with wire and fabric. The...
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THIS SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST’S HOUSE IS LIKE NOTHING YOU’VE SEEN BEFORE
Willie Bester culled diamonds from detritus to build his dream home east of Cape Town.
18 Feb 2021
By ATHI MONGEZELELI JOJA AND PRODUCED BY CHARLES CURKIN FEB 17, 2021 South African artist and activist Willie Bester ’s...
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Highlights from R & Company’s Ambitious Design Exhibition 'OBJECTS: USA 2020'
Adejoke Tugbiyele
16 Feb 2021
By Osman Can Yerebakan At the tail end of the 1960s, the Museum of Contemporary Craft (currently Museum of Art...
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From an artist, to an artist: Pitika Ntuli remembers Sibongile Khumalo
By Pitika Ntuli
31 Jan 2021
In June 2020, South African poet, professor and sculptor Pitika Ntuli completed a collection of sculptures made mostly of bones....
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Melrose Gallery pan-African group exhibition at Sandton City's Diamond Walk extended
21 Jan 2021
The Melrose Gallery is currently showcasing the Introspection - Art Of Contemporary Africa group exhibition, which features established and emerging...
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The Legendary 85-Year-Old Artist Esther Mahlangu Is Collected by Oprah and Trevor Noah—See Her Breathtaking New Work Here
Artnet Gallery Network, December 18, 2020
18 Dec 2020
An exhibition celebrating the artist is on view now at Melrose Gallery in Johannasburg. Esther Nikwambi Mahlangu is a woman...
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Prizim Art Fair 2020
December 1 - December 21
9 Dec 2020
Prizm is pleased to present a dynamic fair with layered programming that is sure to capture the eyes and minds...
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Renowned artist Esther Mahlangu urges Africans to hold onto their traditions
By Jason Burke Africa correspondent
23 Nov 2020
Pioneering Ndebele artist fears young people are losing a sense of their roots One of Africa’s best-known artists has made...
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Queens of Africa
Hussein Salim
21 Nov 2020
Sudanese-born artist Hussein Salim similarly captures that elusive juncture between the fleeting and the eternal in the radiant dreamscapes of...
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Celebrating 85 years of Dr Esther Mahlangu
By Mila Crewe-Brown (editor-in-chief)
18 Nov 2020
The doyenne of modern Ndebele art is about to open her largest ever solo, and it’s happening right here on...
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The Medium is the Message, exhibition in London
Edozie Anedu
2 Nov 2020
The Medium is the Message we can therefore say finds purpose in curating nuanced work. It contains work from a...
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What I Buy and Why: TV Producer Mfundi Vundla on His Fateful First Purchase, and Missing His Chance to Collect Jack Whitten
by Naomi Rea
2 Nov 2020
Vundla is best known for his work on the long-running South African soap opera 'Generations.' When he’s not at his...
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Embodying a Queer, Pan-Africanist Approach to Spirituality
With Hybrid Spirit, Adejoke Tugbiyele proposes a visual language that explores the intimate connections between queerness, Indigenous African spirituality, and feminism.
29 Oct 2020
Alexandra M. Thomas October 29, 2020 Adejoke Tugbiyele manifests a “hybrid spirit” in her work, creating soulful, resilient sculpture-costumes, some...
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Carol Bouwer Bags and Dr Esther Mahlangu connect fashion and art with new luxury collaboration
By Afika Jadezweni
27 Oct 2020
Collaboration in fashion has become a key player for heightened brand awareness and success. It can even be said that...
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Turning inwards, infinitely: A Q&A with Adejoke Tugbiyele
Creative Feel
21 Oct 2020
Exhibited at the Melrose Gallery from 15 October – 15 November 2020 , the artworks on the show were produced in...
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In conversation with Ronald Muchatuta
by Barnabas Muvhuti Ticha
6 Oct 2020
Black lives have always mattered through colonialism, the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Jim Crow era, apartheid, and currently, with the...
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Yoko Ono & Esther Mahlangu lined up for art exhibit in Johannesburg
Nirox Sculpture Park
27 Sep 2020
Experimental artist Yoko Ono - John Lennon's widow - will exhibit her work alongside controversial sculptor Nandipha Mntambo and legendary...
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Regi Bardavid’s Abstract Paintings Spotlight South African Domestic Spaces and Landscapes
The artist grapples with color, line and texture in “Universal Rhythms.”
1 Sep 2020
Regi Bardavid is one of the few painters in South Africa who has championed abstraction in her works for many...
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Masterclass unpacks ethics of sustainability within African fashion
26 Jul 2020
May introduced the theme by posing a multifaceted question to the audience and panellists: What does the ideal future of...
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Pitika Ntuli’ hailed for his bone exhibition at National Arts Festival
Pitika Ntuli
3 Jul 2020
Pitika Ntuli’s 45 bone sculpture exhibition receives high praise at the Virtual National Arts Festival. South African sculptor, poet and...
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Native Exclusive: Meet Edozie Anedu, The Benin Based Artist Behind Drb’s ‘Pioneers’ Cover Art
12 May 2020
I think my story is special. I have the role to break boundaries and connect more people, especially here in...
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Artists opt for virtual exhibitions
26 Apr 2020
Visual artists are swapping gallery exhibitions and showcases for virtual ones, as most of the world remains on lockdown. Visual...
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Adejoke Tugbiyele Hybrid Forms And Second Skins
Decorating Dissidence
4 Apr 2020
Adejoke Tugbiyele (b.1977, New York, USA) is an award-winning, queer, black artist. Her work often comments on human rights issues...
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Meet Artist Ndabuko Ntuli, Making Art Out Of Gomora Trash
Ndabuko Ntuli
26 Mar 2020
The streets of Gomora might be littered with trash but Ndabuko Ntuli is turning it all into works of art....
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Stellenbosch Triennale, a Bold Experiment | The New York Times
Ronald Muchatuta
25 Mar 2020
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — For tourists, this prim colonial town is the gateway to a spectacular mountain region dotted with...
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An engagement with Dr Mahlangu’s contemporary art practice by Percy Mabandu
Dr. Esther Mahlangu
18 Mar 2020
Thinking and writing about Dr Esther Mahlangu’s work may finally catch up with the quality of her 75-year long contribution...
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Oliewenhuis Art Museum permanent collection exhibition
Noria Mabasa
18 Mar 2020
Selected artworks are displayed from Oliewenhuis Art Museum’s Permanent Collection to contemplate and converse on themes associated with gender, identity,...
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Absa Art Gallery
Philiswa Lila
21 Feb 2020
Watch Philiswa Lila give us her take on the future of visual arts and a new generation of trail-blazing African...
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CHRIS THURMAN: A Swirl Of Bodies In The Age Of Digital Reproduction
Philiswa Lila
21 Feb 2020
When it comes to Philiswa Lila’s exhibition Skin, Bone, Fire, a virtual experience is not quite the same as being...
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CELEBRATED ARTIST DR. ESTHER MAHLANGU PAINTS UNIQUE ARTWORK FOR ROLLS-ROYCE PHANTOM GALLERY
Dr. Esther Mahlangu
13 Feb 2020
Rolls-Royce’s flagship, Phantom, has within it, an interior space which spans the dash facia and which is enclosed by a...
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Tomorrow There Will Be More of Us: Art as a Contact Zone
by Sven Christian
5 Feb 2020
The title of the inaugural Stellenbosch Triennale, Tomorrow There Will Be More Of Us (2020), reads like a proclamation—a statement...
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Sir Richard Branson Finally Meets His Portrait
Paul Blomkamp
21 Nov 2019
'The man meets the painting! 10 years ago I was really young (60), fired up and full of wild enthusiasm....
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BISO 2019: Ouagadougou, capitale de la sculpture africaine jusqu’au 15 novembre
Adejoke Tugbiyele
15 Nov 2019
The Burkinabe capital has been hosting the 1st edition of the International Sculpture Biennial of Ouagadougou (BISO) since October 8...
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Arts plastiques : le dilemme du sculpteur
Adejoke Tugbiyele
31 Oct 2019
The first international sculpture biennial in Ouagadougou highlights the questions of contemporary creators, heirs to a long tradition. How to...
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Getting to know Willie Bester
Willie Bester
15 Aug 2019
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Department launches books about Noria Mabasa and Dr Esther Mahlangu
Noria Mabasa and Dr Esther Mahlangu
11 Aug 2019
JOBURG – The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture honours sculptor Noria Mabasa with a launch of a book about...
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The Washington Post | The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art
Adejoke Tugbiyele
18 Jul 2019
About five years ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art determined that only 11 percent of the artists with...
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Dr. Esther Mahlangu receives France’s top cultural award
Friday 12 July 2019 - French Embassy, Pretoria Johannesburg
12 Jul 2019
During the 2019 Bastille Day celebration at the Residence of France in Pretoria, Ambassador of France to South Africa, H.E....
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Pitika Ntuli Speaks To ART AFRICA In An All-Encompassing Conversation
2 May 2019
The 77-year-old artist spoke to ART AFRICA in an all-encompassing conversation that touched on his origins as an artist, his...
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Freshpak 80s Limited Edition Esther Mahlangu Tin
26 Sep 2018
Freshpak rooibos, in collaboration with internationally acclaimed Ndebele artist Dr Esther Mahlangu , has created a limited-edition tin. Dr...
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BMW 7 Series Individual by Esther Mahlangu now in South Africa
Dr. Esther Mahlangu
18 Aug 2018
“I am so glad that BMW brought my art back to South Africa, it is a beautiful car to be...
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Esther Mahlangu 'honoured' to be celebrated on New York boulevard
21 Sep 2017
Traditional artist Esther Mahlangu is 'excited and honoured' to have her bold Ndebele artwork brighten up the streets of New...
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Gerald Chukwuma: the ex-hawker who turns drinks cans into works of art
9 May 2017
In neon orange shorts, Gerald Chukwuma approaches me, smiling, beneath the glittering chandeliers in the lounge of Accra’s dazzling Kempinski...
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BMW Art Talk held at Soho House on the occasion of the fourth edition of BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors BMW as partner of Frieze London to present Art Talk about Esther Mahlangu and South African art.
26 Sep 2016
London/Munich. From October 6 to 9, 2016, Frieze London will open its doors in Regent’s Park for the 14th time....
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How John Legend And A World-Renowned Ndebele Artist Joined Forces To Beat AIDS
31 Aug 2016
Esther Mahlangu hands me a chicken feather. She teaches me how to strip it and save a little tuft at...
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Artist’s work is fired by deep spirituality
By Atiyyah Khan
1 Mar 2016
Spirituality is what fuels the work of Zimbabwean-born artist Ronald Muchatuta. The soft-spoken artist has been working in Cape Town...
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Artist Esther Mahlangu @VMFA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
30 Jan 2015
South African Ndebele artist Esther Mahlangu discusses the early years of her paining practice, her designs and pigments, and the...
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Ndebele artist Mahlangu uses bold colors, striking graphics to honor African heritage
The Washington Post
3 Oct 2014
RICHMOND — Esther Mahlangu is barely taller than the third-grade students who gathered around her for a photo op in...
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1991 BMW 525i | 12 Esther Mahlangu
Dr. Esther Mahlangu
13 May 2011
By Philip Papeman “My art has evolved from the tribal tradition of decorating our homes. The patterns I have used...
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