Lolo Veloko, Lawrence Lemaoana, Nicholas Hlobo, Nandipha Mntambo and Athi Patra-Ruga have variously adopted and adapted clothing as their mode of expression

During Cameron Platter's recent occupation of Durban's KZNSA Gallery, Brenton Maart asked him some clever questions

Architect Carin Smuts, the recent winner of a prestigious international design award for sustainable architecture, creates buildings that challenge architecture's dominant late-capitalist paradigm

While streakers are common occurrence in modern sport, occasioning bemused smiles from the establishment, penises in art are a different matter entirely. Anthea Buys looks at the recent hullabaloo surrounding this year's winning entry to the Sasol New Signatures and the woes of corporate sponsorship

Artist, educator, critic and art theorist Neville Dubow, who passed away this August, was a significant agent for change in South African art and pioneer of an idiosyncratic style of conceptual photography

My restlessness is easing away and I am becoming increasingly content with my minimal space

The biographies of eight gay and lesbian Johannesburg residents formed the basis of Jo'burg Tracks, an engaging instance of activist and experiential exhibition making curated by Mark Gevisser and Zethu Matebeni. By Shaun de Waal

Art is an encoded language; artworks are ciphered messages. Art, like espionage, is based around an exchange of information

Shortly after the watershed events of 1990, Marilyn Martin, newly appointed to her position as director of the South African National Gallery, published a journal article that attempted to recuperate the significance of painterly abstraction in South African art history. Underpinning her writing was an optimism for the possibilities of painterly abstraction in a post-apartheid, post-struggle context. So what exactly happened in the supervening 17 years? Art South Africa asked Martin to revisit her text with a view to setting down a working draft – "it is not a representative survey," she insists – of painterly abstraction in South Africa. In the spirit of her initial investigation, her findings are framed as a series of questions

Latifa Echakhch, Stuart Bird, Dada Masilo and The Blk Jks

Arms raised, fists clenched, his green, gold and black tracksuit top unzipped to the waste, revealing a sedate conference tag slung around his neck, Jacob Zuma leads the chorus. "Umshini wami, mshini wami." The response is ecstatic. "Khawuleth' umshini wami." And again. "Umshini wami, mshini wami." The Big Man gets animated. The crowd whistles, cheers, dances, responds in song. Etcetera. So why all the fuss? Kevin Bloom, Maggie Davey, Fred de Vries, Ivor Powell, Lesego Rampolokeng, Colin Richards, Nedko Solakov, André Wiesner and a Department of Arts and Culture press release explain. >>