While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...

Meleko Mokgosi describes himself as a history painter, but what he considers to be historic is what sets his work apart. Kids at school, people lounging at home, a young woman getting her hair done — ...

Installation view, Meleko Mokgosi: The social revolution of our time cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the poetry of the future, Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, New York, ...

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Meleko Mokgosi’s enigmatic history paintings are hardly new to the international circuit. Within the last five years, the artist has shown at the Hammer in Los Angeles, Art Basel in Miami Beach, and ...

Diedrick Brackens and Meleko Mokgosi have overlapping residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center this month, so this pair of leading contemporary artists are joining together for a free public dialogue ...

Now, that Los Angeles has its own biennial, it needs a suitably impressive monetary prize to go along with it. In conjunction with the Hammer’s inaugural Made in L.A. exhibition, which features the ...

STEVENSON presents Appellations and Speculations on Drawing by Meleko Mokgosi, taking place across the gallery’s Cape Town and Johannesburg spaces, jointly marking the artist’s third exhibition with ...

The three parts to Meleko Mokgosi’s absorbing show at Honor Fraser are formally distinct, all falling under a broad umbrella of concern with post-colonialism and misrepresentation across the ...

This is a detail from "Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu", a room-spanning oil painting by Meleko Mokgosi, who has been announced as the winner of the Hammer Museum's Mohn Award. That's a new ...

If you’ve ever felt you lack the education to understand art representing histories, people and symbols from a culture outside your own, artist Meleko Mokgosi isn’t going to let you off easy. With six ...