Fela Kuti becomes the first African artist to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, while Tyla wins her second Best African Music Performance trophy for ...

I don’t know yet that there is such a thing as African LGBTQ art history,” says curator and author Serubiri Moses. Moses is a ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A boldly patterned BMW stands at the entrance of the Wits Arts Museum in the vibrant Johannesburg neighborhood of Braamfontein. Its bright geometric shapes are part of 89-year-old ...

Davido embraces his 2026 Grammy nomination for "With You" while advocating for homegrown infrastructure and an "African ...

While other artists might use watercolors or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg. His medium is the plastic ...

Our picks from the city's vibrant art week. Artists Pitika Ntuli and Esther Mahlangu with musician Nothembi Mkhwebane at the VIP Opening of "Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting": Esther Mahlangu. A ...

The City’s first and only gallery dedicated to contemporary Pan-African Art will open next month.

The key takeaway is that the paintings do not simply show people moving; they encode recognizable ritual elements - like clapping women, dancers in circles, and altered postures associated with trance ...

On a recent weekday morning, some two dozen smartly dressed art enthusiasts gathered at Tate Modern before its doors opened for a private tour of the expansive solo exhibition of South African visual ...

A panel recommended that Gabrielle Goliath represent South Africa at the event. But the culture minister rejected its suggestion.

Gabrielle Goliath says Gayton McKenzie violating freedom of expression after ‘highly divisive’ artwork Elergy banned from SA pavilion ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the Cederberg ...