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Facilitating dialogue: The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

Six decades In, Goodman Gallery reflects on its role in art and society

Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community

Pablo Picasso’s Buste Modern Style.

When art returns, who does it belong to?

As masterpieces by William Kentridge and Pablo Picasso return to Johannesburg, Homecoming becomes less about art on walls and more about who gets to claim it

Improvising the image: The Centre for the Less Good Idea hosted the second iteration of their expansive experimentation with intention, deep listening and meaning-making: Sounding Pictures. Photos: Zivanai Matangi

Lost in Joburg, found in sound

Stripping films of their original scores, ‘Sounding Pictures’ invites musicians and audiences alike into a charged, unpredictable experiment in collective interpretation

Experimental: A timeline of Standard Bank’s involvement in the arts over the years in the Art Lab in Sandton City in Joburg

Standard Bank’s Art Lab turns Sandton Mall into cultural playground

An experimental creative space in the heart of Sandton, Standard Bank’s new Art Lab redefines how everyday audiences experience and engage with art

On the count of three: The Kyle Shepherd Trio on stage (left to right), Shepherd, Shane Cooper and Jonno Sweetman. (Supplied)

The Kyle Shepherd Trio: A jazz dance sweetly played

Kyle Shepherd Trio’s new album is packed with originals, covers, homages – and a guilty pleasure

Flicking through: Musician Msaki and artist and composer Neo Muyanga collaborate on her film Kuthi Mandithethe at Sounding Pictures, an exploration of live scores to short silent films.

Picturing the sounds of silence

Sound and silence collided in Sounding Pictures at The Centre for the Less Good Idea in Joburg

In black and white: Zander Blom tells of the colour in his work

The artist’s new Joburg exhibition has drips and smears – it can scare you – but it can also make you feel light

A from mAnJE! MaNJe (an epic), which uses ancient stories as a lens through which to explore the human condition in an age of rapidly evolving technology, big data, AI and climate change catastrophe.

Past the future: Right here, right now-now theatre

A new play shows that, like Icarus, today’s tech-bro puppeteers such as Elon Musk seem hell-bent on flying too close to the sun

Striking: Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero was choreographed by Gregory Maqoma.

Diary: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero, BMW Art Generation, live scores to silent films

Your essential dose of art and culture

South African rapper and poet Tumi Molekane. Photo supplied

Diary: Kentridge auction, Africa Rising in Jozi, and Stogie T’s Shallow

Your essential dose of art and culture

Lithuanian Ambassador Rasa Jankauskaite delivers an address at Sammy Marks Museum.

Lithuania celebrates 34 years of independence 

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

South African artist William Kentridge

Kentridge comes up for air in Cape Town

The renowned artist talks about inspiration, ideas, history and his new exhibition