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Eye of the beholder
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Art & Photography
Zeitz MOCAA ushers in the summer season with two new lens-based exhibitions.
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28 Nov 23
Dress to impress
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Craft
Adobe’s ever-changing digital dress gives fashion dynamism a whole new meaning.
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23 Oct 23
Reality bites
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Anish Kapoor’s latest exhibition displays the artist’s lifelong interest in materiality.
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16 Oct 23
Looking back
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History, fashion and sustainability intersect with Khensani Mohlatlole.
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9 Oct 23
Open minds
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Global leaders in graphic design gather for the biggest conference of its kind in the world.
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2 Sep 23
Women in art
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Nada Baraka is the winner of the 2023 ANNA Award recognising women artists from Africa.
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20 Aug 23
Breast in class
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These nipple prosthetics are created from hair lost in chemotherapy.
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20 Aug 23
Goal oriented
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Design Indaba Emerging Creative alum Thebe Magugu designed the new Orlando Pirates kit.
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30 Jul 23
Metamorphosis
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‘I always make clothes that I would want to wear … forever,’ says 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Shamyra Moodley.
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24 Jul 23
In the round
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Las Vegas is home to the world’s largest sphere.
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17 Jul 23
Creative outlet
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This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative offers artists the opportunity to use Persian carpets as a canvas.
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10 Jul 23
Hot off the press
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Otsile Moumakoe’s artworks incorporate ‘fashion, music, movies and a little bit of history’.
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4 Jul 23
Hot off the press
4 Jul 23
Decolonising architecture
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The Applied Arts pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores the colonial roots and evolution of Tropical Modernist architecture.
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27 Jun 23
Synth wave
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Yuri Suzuki has created a web experience celebrating the legendary Moog synthesiser.
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9 Jun 23
Fairest of them all
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The first edition of a Johannesburg art fair dazzled visitors with local and international artworks.
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5 Jun 23
Counting sheep
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This exhibition shows how wool is more than just a raw material.
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29 May 23
Woven stories
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The artistic practice of this 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative examines memory, identity and inheritance.
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22 May 23
Re-threading
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Fashion designer Khumo Mohloli Morojele finds inspiration in the traces of memory in thrifted clothes.
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8 May 23
The New Medium
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The first fine-art physical NFT gallery in South Africa opens in Johannesburg.
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8 May 23
Common lens
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Analogue photographer Sandra Leigh Nagel’s work has a clear style, cutting-edge aesthetic and unequivocal direction.
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25 Apr 23
Light work
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Craft
This wind-up flashlight kit was designed in collaboration with its intended users.
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17 Apr 23
Face value
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Cape Town-based 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Naledi Modupi is obsessed with faces.
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11 Apr 23
Body of work
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2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Thembi Mthembu uses the body as a site for her artistic exploration.
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4 Apr 23
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