News
Cape Town Fire Decimates Invaluable Archives of African History
The university’s African film collection, one of the largest in the world, has been lost to the fire.
Cape Town
Art
Queer Art Workers Reflect: Tšhegofatšo Mabaso Is Spending Pride Month “Deep in the Archive”
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
News
In South Africa, Activists Campaign to Remove Artwork by Convicted Murderer of a Sex Worker
In a public gesture of solidarity, artist Candice Breitz asked that her video installation, on view in a separate exhibition at the same art center, be removed and replaced by a #SayHerName sign.
Art
The Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town
At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.
Interview
Alfredo Jaar on the Capacity of Culture
In a conversation we had in Cape Town, I attempted to better understand Jaar's deep belief in art's capacity to effect change amid political disorder.
Interview
Four Questions for the Demonstrators Outside Zwelethu Mthethwa's Trial
One of the most prominent aspects of artist Zwelethu Mthethwa's trial has been a group of (mostly) women who've demonstrated outside the courthouse for the last two years, dressed often in orange and holding handmade signs.
News
Murder Trial of Artist Zwelethu Mthethwa Begins in South Africa
After two years of postponements, the trial of artist Zwelethu Mthethwa finally got underway last week in Cape Town. Mthethwa pleaded not guilty to the murder of a woman named Nokuphila Kumalo.