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Join us for a public talk with Dr. Daniel Magaziner, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor, Department of History, Yale University. Dr. Magaziner will discuss the multiple ways that South African artists addressed Apartheid, ranging from direct political commentary to the continuance of long-standing artistic traditions.
This talk examines two sides of the story of visual culture in 20th century South Africa during Apartheid. Toggling between rural and urban areas, we consider how artists engaged the country’s politics from the 1950s through the 1980s. Some artists offered work that commented on and engaged in the struggle to overturn white supremacy, and some suffered for this, including being forced into exile, censored, imprisoned, or worse. Others turned to art as a means of survival, finding solace in craft and other novel practices, as a means of evading both state violence and Apartheid’s humiliations. Focusing especially on artistic networks in rural and urban KwaZulu-Natal, the talk demonstrates how creators built their own worlds within Apartheid, with their hands, materials, and minds.
This event is presented in conjunction with our current exhibition, Ngqikithi yokuPhica / Weaving Meanings: Telephone Wire Art from South Africa, on display through March 6, 2026.
Daniel Magaziner teaches South African, African, and Global history at Yale University. A specialist in intellectual and cultural history, he has written three books published both in the United States and South Africa: The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968 – 1977 (Ohio University Press / Jacana Media, 2010); The Art of Life in South Africa (Ohio University Press / University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016); and Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle to Change South Africa (Ohio University Press (2024) / Jacana Media (2025)). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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