Friday, 24 March 2023
Danielle Bowler is a feminist writer and editor from Ifafa Beach in KwaZulu-Natal, focusing on the intersections of race, popular culture and gender. She was formerly the managing editor of Elle magazine and is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar and 2017 Young African Leaders Initiative fellow.
As the artist returns to the stage with their first live performance in two years, and an album on the way, they contemplate what this means through their look, approach and sound.
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s art explores gymnastics and the commercialisation of sport, questioning the hero myth of the individual gymnast and celebrating teamwork and collective spirit.
The cultural criticism scholar argues in A Black Gaze that certain art transforms viewers into witnesses, pushing them into an encounter with themselves as seen through the complexity of blackness.
The Nigerian artist’s debut solo exhibition, To Wander Untamed, posits a space for women in which freedom from oppressive patriarchy and prescriptive religion is a possible dream.
Lady Skollie’s latest exhibition adds to the thinking of Patric Tariq Mellet, Gabeba Baderoon and Pumla Dineo Gqola on slave history and its sexual violence, and how it remade our world.
In the British-Nigerian writer’s new book, Love in Colour, she reshapes mythical tales into cinematic love stories that are told with intentional care, centring Black lives and pop culture.
The artist’s new virtual exhibition continues his compelling meditations on the complexities of love. He speaks about his muses, the music that inspires him, loneliness and lockdown.
The founder of the Grammy Award-winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo has died at the age of 78, leaving a continued and rich legacy in isicathamiya choral singing.
The Port Elizabeth-born singer celebrates the memory, vocal range and heart of Whitney Houston in a worldwide tribute show while remaining distinctly herself.
By challenging the exclusivity of patriarchal, white-walled gallery spaces, the artist who dares to represent the darkness in her community creates new spaces for art to flourish.
In death, the woman who through her novels and nonfiction assumed the centrality of the black experience compels us to seek out the richness of meaning through careful, precise writing.
Stand-up comic Marc Lottering takes the business of making people laugh very seriously, as his career crafts an extended tribute to people on the Cape Flats.
The winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for theatre brings home the need to keep remembering a past that displaced and dispossessed.
We asked ‘New Frame’ culture contributors to make the case for their pick from the 2019 Record of the Year longlist ahead of the South African Music Awards.
The former ‘Isidingo’ actor has had a sparklingly successful career. The pioneering performer reveals the realities of what it means to work in the arts.
Art, education and culture collide in ‘Homecoming’, a documentary that is unavoidably rooted in black politics and raises unique questions about South Africa.
The British singer and self-proclaimed ‘proud gay’ person played an unapologetically queer show for a suburban crowd in Johannesburg, raising awareness of LGBTQIA+ identities.