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Purple haze: Jacaranda in bloom are beauties, but condemn the aliens.

There are new killers on the loose

They come in the form of the shot borer beetle and people who don’t appreciate the shade, leaves and flowers of trees in urban areas

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
On the face of it: South African photographer Pieter Hugo’s pictures Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 2015 (Pieter Hugo)

Pieter Hugo’s tragic beauty pushes the button of mortality

The photographer’s ambitious new exhibition What the Light Falls On is a free-ranging meditation on life

  • Des Erasmus
14 min read
Bridging the gap: Sabelo Mlangeni with Kamogelo Walaza, curator of his show Ngiyobona Phambili, and details of two works, Voices in Trenches, Delville Wood, 2016 and Dangerous Crossing, Arques Labttaille, 2016.

Sabelo Mlangeni: The grey and green of trauma

Photographer’s homecoming exhibition travels through art, memory and being black in the West

  • Umamah Bakharia
7 min read
Renowned: Chilean-born, US-based Alfredo Jaar has a place in South Africa. Photo: Jee Eun Esther Jang

Conflict, migration exposed

Alfredo Jaar’s photo exhibition is of Rwandan, Sudanese, Afghani and Vietnamese refugees

  • Umamah Bakharia
7 min read