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Climate activists threatened to vandalise masterpieces to turn attention to what our society values. Did this have the desired effect and what did it reveal about what kind of art and artists are valued and how climate activists view art institutions?

Since AI and the digitisation of art marketing have impacted art production and dealing, how have collectors benefitted?

With surprisingly limited local media coverage, 2022 marked some extraordinary moments for Black women artists from South Africa.

Dora Dalila Cheffi, a Finnish-Tunisian artist, belongs nowhere. We meet at the artists studio at the Cape Town Art Residency to discuss her self-portraits. A tall mirror is a striking studio tool. There, reversed, the artist sees herself.

The Swiss-English artist, Lawrence Calver, is in love with Rothko, though he is no painter. Sewing, dyeing, bleaching, are the integral elements in the creation of his art.

It is somewhat of an old-school notion that art must keep us in tune with the times. Art has equal value and sway when it channels utopias, and idylls. 

With Covid lockdowns over for vast majority of the art world, Art Basel Miami Beach hosted its largest edition yet, expanding to the entirety of the Convention Centre and taking over the top floor for the expansive Collector Lounge and talks area.

"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.

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.

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

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.

Asian art markets rival western ones. Yet links between Africa and Asia seem to be only gradually taking shape, and doing so in institutional rather than commercial spheres.

Some African based collectors seem more interested in advancing art than their own taste, when they bring their works into the public realm. Others want to drum up the value and interest in the artists they support.