Articles
Who is building Africa’s art ecosystem?
Phendu Kuta analyses the infrastructure gap, market viability, and cross-sector partnerships required to build a...
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Out of time, into history, and towards a speculative future: Reverse Futures at JCAF
David Mann reviews Reverse Futures at JCAF, exploring Yinka Shonibare, Calculating Empires, Paula Gaetano Adi,...
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'Is he going to sell?!' The cost of performance art in today's art landscape
Minna Dundas explores the tension between performance art, online backlash, and commercial market realities through...
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Two Ways of Keeping
Nkhensani Mkhari reflects on Gavin Krastin, the Live Art Arcade, and how South African live...
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How Art Stokvels Can Change Who Gets To Own Art
Kemiso Yasmine Wessie explores how the stokvel economy and flexible payment models are democratising contemporary...
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Cultural Foundations II: The Evidence of Who We Are
Gbolahan Ayoola explores Yoruba history, material culture, Ifá corroboration, and the Ita Yemoo excavations in...
Read moreANNA Award Audience Award Vote Terms and Conditions 2026
Read the official terms and conditions for the ANNA Award 2026 Audience Award vote hosted...
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Meet the 2026 Top 5 ANNA Award Finalists!
Discover the 2026 Top 5 ANNA Award finalists, celebrating contemporary African women artists across South...
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Santu Mofokeng Foundation Photography Prize
Launched in 2026 by the Santu Mofokeng Foundation in collaboration with Latitudes, the Prize honours...
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African art’s foothold in Basel’s stratified market
The Art Basel fair's reputation and standing as the most prestigious and largest art fair...
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As the spirit rises, it deepens: Bev Butkow’s ‘Fire My Spirit’ at the University of Johannesburg
In the foyer of the University of Johannesburg’s Keorapetse William Kgotsitsile Theatre, a new permanent...
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The Fragility of Memory: Archaeology, Preservation, and the Construction of Identity
Cultural Foundations is an invitation to that excavation, a body of work that asks collectors,...
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