How has technology advanced art collecting?
Since AI and the digitisation of art marketing have impacted art production and dealing, how have collectors benefitted?
18 Jan 2023
On their own terms: Young SA women artists are traversing their own path into the art world
With surprisingly limited local media coverage, 2022 marked some extraordinary moments for Black women artists from South Africa.
11 Jan 2023
Dora Dalila Cheffi - The Sunny Nihilist
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.
20 Dec 2022
Lawrence Calver, Infinitely Gentle
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.
The Great Escape: can art offer a respite from reality?
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.
14 Dec 2022
All aboard the LuCAC express
When Norwegian-based Zambian Artist Victor Mutelekesha began to conceive of a space that would function as a repository of the arts, it naturally followed that LuCAC would become a station that highlights the multiplicity of cultural identities present in the capital city.
Announcing RMB Latitudes CuratorLab 2023
RMB Latitudes CuratorLab is a practice-based, online curatorial residency for emerging curators in Africa. In 2023, 10 aspiring curators will be guided through a facilitated online residency, designed to offer practical experience in the industry and to hone their curatorial skills.
Meet Tanzanian artist Winifrid Luena
Winifrid Luena's latest body of work is a self-reflection on Winifrid’s continued shifting of states, perceptions, and ideas of living in response to adapting to changes in culture, reality and self-identity after moving from Tanzania to South Africa.
07 Dec 2022
Q&A with Lagos artist Adesola Yusuf (Arclight)
Adesola Yusuf (Arclight) is a 25-year-old multidimensional artist from Lagos, Nigeria. His visually expressive work takes inspiration through the ages, from renaissance art, to modern minimalist, pop and internet art.
No longer quite the new kid…but in a good way
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.
Mihloti ya Ntsako: Reflecting on the art collection as a journey
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.
30 Nov 2022
Curator Nkgopoleng Moloi reflects on Season 3 of the ICA Podcast
"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
The Artists' Press presents new prints by artist Nabeeha Mohamed
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.
Meet Jono Dry
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.
29 Nov 2022
The Social Impact Arts Prize 2022
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.
23 Nov 2022
Rules for Rebels and time warps for survival A solo exhibition by Norman O’Flynn
Liza Grobler explores Norman O’Flynn's solo exhibition.
New reports reveal the uber-wealthy in the West to be interested in ‘emerging’ artists
Nine percent of the world’s most valued ‘Ultra-contemporary’ artists are from Africa, according to a new art market report
Pebofatso Mokoena's featured in Munich Re Collection
Latitudes is thrilled to share our latest collaboration between Munich Re, Waldman Studios, David Krut Projects and artist, Pebofatso Mokoena.
Simon Njami on Jean-David Nkot's Corps de P@ges
The Melrose Gallery presents Jean-David Nkot's solo show Corps de P@ges. 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.
16 Nov 2022
Stephan Welz & Co. Present their November Premium Auction
Catch Stephen Welz & Co's auction from 21 - 24 November 2022.
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The late Gianni Mariano honoured with a 52-metre long artwork in his hometown Fallo, Italy
A group of young artists from Artist Proof Studio were selected for a residency programme in memory of Gianni Mariano, co-founder of Mastrantonio group, former BASA board member, chairman of the Artists Proof Studio board and mentorship pioneer, who sadly passed away in 2023.
16 Oct 2024
Between the Painting and I
In some way, the presence of a painting on every wall — from the pristine white finish of a gallery to the prehistoric archive of a cave — can be somewhat overwhelming. How has the language of paint transcended race, time, geography and cultural context?
02 Oct 2024
Collector Profile: Meet Nkathuto Olwethu Gallant
As someone who comes from a creative industry you would think that I would have always been drawn into the art space, but like many others I have always found galleries, let alone art collecting, to be a space which intimidated me greatly.
18 Sep 2024
Beyond the Status Quo: Bridging the artistic divide
A review of Steelwool and Other Paradoxes, the current show at Latitudes Centre for the Arts.
04 Sep 2024
Dream-like work and artistic lives of artist couple, Wendy Vincent and Geoffrey Armstrong
An innate rapport with the natural world is the heartbeat of works by artist partners and stewards of the earth, Geoffrey Armstrong and Wendy Vincent. Over the past 25 years their Magalies Rock Garden near Hekpooort in South Africa has set the stage for the conception of dream-like works of genius.
Interview with artist Sharlene Khan
Latitudes' Boitumelo Makousu interviews artist Sharlene Khan.
21 Aug 2024
Meet our 2024 ANNA Award Winner!
We are thrilled to announce that Xanthe Somers is this year's ANNA Award Winner!
07 Aug 2024
Collector Profile: Meet creative entrepreneur Annicia Manyaapelo
In this exclusive interview, collector Annicia Manyaapelo shares her journey through the art world, as well as invaluable advice on collecting.
31 Jul 2024
Earthbound: Soil and Memory in Contemporary South African Art
As an artist, my engagement with soil has been both sporadic and profound, each interaction a meditation on the earth's raw, tactile essence. Over the years, I've witnessed a growing embrace of soil as a medium by a diverse cadre of artists near and far.
24 Jul 2024
Meet the Top 12 ANNA Award Finalists!
Our esteemed selection committee is hard at work deciding on a winner from the 2024 Top 12 Finalists, who we are beyond excited to present to you!
Emerging voices turn up the HEAT on Cape Town's art scene
If you peruse the 16 art exhibitions and live programming of the HEAT Festival, you aren't likely to see the names of too many famous artists. The HEAT Winter Arts Festival was not originally tailored for young or emerging artists. This focus occurred organically - as a nascent festival, it made sense to unearth new talent, and a fresh point of view.
10 Jul 2024
Encountering fiction in South African works of art
Art and artists make for good stories. Over the years, a rich relationship between South African art and fiction has emerged, with art serving as a point of inspiration for fictional narratives.
Strangeness and Charm
Many of the works on display at RMB Latitudes Art Fair exemplified the strangeness and charm of the bizarre in a venue so splendidly unorthodox that one might be forgiven for thinking it was designed for the very purpose.
26 Jun 2024
Beyond Function: The Persistence of Clay
The similarity in all these artists' work was that they allowed the clay to just be “the thing itself” they encouraged it to transcend its practicality, they handled it in its enduring and dynamic nature, they explored its time-based and process-driven element, it pulled them in, and they let it.
Pathmaking and placemaking at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair
Art Fairs offer pathways of access to artists, exhibitors, and viewers – placemaking in an industry that so often hoards access. Latitudes serves to meet you half-way – to posit emergent work and spaces.
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