EDITORIAL

The book Mihloti ya Ntsako – Journeys with the Bongi Dhlomo Collection, is both a chronicling of a collection and a biography of its collector, the accomplished artist, curator and arts administrator, Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa, better known as Ma Bongi Dhlomo.

"I spent a lot of time thinking about what it meant for artists to make, in a continuously disorienting world that is hungry for things that are bigger, better, faster, newer and shinier..." - Nkgopoleng Moloi

Nabeeha Mohamed was born in Cape Town in 1988. Her paintings and prints confront the contradictions of her position in post-Apartheid South African society.

Based in Cape Town and entirely self taught, South African artist Jono Dry has worked for the last thirteen years on creating a practice centred around his large-scale hyperrealist graphite works.

The Social Impact Arts Prize awards artists who situate their practices in socially concerned conditions ranging from the environment and climate change to human relations and social pressures of an unequal society. Read about the 2022 winners.

Liza Grobler explores Norman O’Flynn's solo exhibition.

Nine percent of the world’s most valued ‘Ultra-contemporary’ artists are from Africa, according to a new art market report

Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.

"I spent a lot of time thinking about what it meant for artists to make, in a continuously disorienting world that is hungry for things that are bigger, better, faster, newer and shinier..." - Nkgopoleng Moloi

Nine percent of the world’s most valued ‘Ultra-contemporary’ artists are from Africa, according to a new art market report

David Mann explores the benefits writers gain from the collaborative and generative act of welcoming visual art into their narratives.

Everywhere, it seems, abstraction is the resurgent signifier. How so? Because we are tired of being told what to see and value? Because ours is a world riven by identity politics, split by extremism on the Left and Right, consumed by the spectre of fascism – by Absolutes.

Is it possible to hold an exhibition with only three paintings? More importantly, can you drum up an audience without disappointing them? Surprisingly, a Joburg-based curator, Clive Kellner, director of the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF), has managed to achieve both with the latest exhibition, Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South.

David Krut Projects and Jillian Ross Print are pleased to present a new body of work. The exciting global collaboration brings together William Kentridge, Master Printer Jillian Ross and the David Krut Workshop, photogravure experts, Steven Dixon in Edmonton, Canada and Zhané Warren in Cape Town, South Africa.

Cape Town Art Residency private view of works by two Zimbabwean artists, Julio Rizhi and Takunda Billiati, is worth the privilege. Installed in a newish  artists residency in Woodstock, Cape Town.

Though a weariness with portraiture has set in, in the wake of the genre being so widely adopted by African artists, a large exhibition of Dumas’ works in Venice brings into focus the necessity to reclaim images and look beyond the surface of them.

Nabeeha Mohamed was born in Cape Town in 1988. Her paintings and prints confront the contradictions of her position in post-Apartheid South African society.

Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.

The Melrose Gallery presents Jean-David Nkot's solo show Corps de [email protected] Jean-David Nkot is above all, at least for the moment, a painter. His work, even when it contains elements of abstraction, is essentially figurative, obsessed with the body and its representation.

Cape Town Art Residency private view of works by two Zimbabwean artists, Julio Rizhi and Takunda Billiati, is worth the privilege. Installed in a newish  artists residency in Woodstock, Cape Town.

As a leading expert in Contemporary Art from Africa and the diaspora, Kimberley Cunningham chats to Latitudes about the Reshape 22 annual, online survey exhibition.

Now that the rush to buy textile-based art has somewhat abated those who are making strides with this medium are easier to spot and appreciate.

Working on different continents allowed Cinthia Sifa Mulanga and Jillian Ross to generate a considered series of prints that distill the essence of her art.

Reshape is an annual, online survey exhibition that seeks to augment the visibility of contemporary, women-identifying artists in Africa.

Nabeeha Mohamed was born in Cape Town in 1988. Her paintings and prints confront the contradictions of her position in post-Apartheid South African society.

Based in Cape Town and entirely self taught, South African artist Jono Dry has worked for the last thirteen years on creating a practice centred around his large-scale hyperrealist graphite works.

Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.

Is it possible to hold an exhibition with only three paintings? More importantly, can you drum up an audience without disappointing them? Surprisingly, a Joburg-based curator, Clive Kellner, director of the Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation (JCAF), has managed to achieve both with the latest exhibition, Kahlo, Sher-Gil, Stern: Modernist Identities in the Global South.

A brand new indoor and outdoor art event is coming to Johannesburg in May next year. And it’s one you don’t want to miss.

Buffer Zones meditates the excruciating destruction of the landscape and its ability to rehabilitate itself after years of institutional surveillance.

Working on different continents allowed Cinthia Sifa Mulanga and Jillian Ross to generate a considered series of prints that distill the essence of her art.

Reshape is an annual, online survey exhibition that seeks to augment the visibility of contemporary, women-identifying artists in Africa.

Forget about complimentary bubbles or embossed slippers. Top-notch hotel stays can be measured according to the quality of the art on the walls.