Africa's art scene is undergoing a spectacular transformation with emerging female artists redefining what contemporary ...

The market for contemporary African art has been a subject of considerable focus in recent years, and now it has a dedicated ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for R245 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...

Independent art spaces are collectives of artists (and others) who club together to set up a communal space – often in former ...

Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in 2021 when she came up with “Gospel Voices of OC,” a ...

David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ...

I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and neither by ...

Among the works on view in the self-curated show are Alien Man on Flying Machine (2011), Refugee Astronaut X (2024) and The African Library (2018), a monumental installation of 6,000 books wrapped ...

This story is featured in the May/June 2025 issue of ESSENCE.

Some works wade deeper and focus on the environmental impacts of pools or issues of class and access to leisure spaces ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited Canada to attend the G7 Summit, has gifted a brass dokra horse to the South African ...