by Cornelius Rykaart | Jun 30, 2020
Hello everyone, I’m Storm Janse Van Rensburg, Senior Curator at Zeitz MOCAA As I am writing this, South Africa has been 94 days in lockdown. I cannot recall when last I have been in one place for more than three months in a row. Time has gone by incredibly fast and...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Jun 30, 2020
#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Jun 30, 2020
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Mandisa Ngqulana, and I am the Museum Educator at Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Arts Education. I got to thinking recently about Billie Holiday’s version of the song Strange...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Jun 5, 2020
#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we look at US-born artist Glenn Ligon’s series of lithographs, Runaways (1993). Ligon explores the history of slavery, racial...
by Cornelius Rykaart | Jun 5, 2020
– By Liesl Hartman, Head of Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Art Education Museums are educational institutions accustomed to a specifically physical interface with our visitors. We, like many other museums, consider our gallery environment more than a workspace...
