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NAMA 2026: Celebration of a New Generation of Zimbabwean Visual Arts
by Staff Writer The 2026 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) have once again turned national attention toward Zimbabwe’s visual arts sector, and this year the results are as compelling as they are provocative. Officially announced and sealed, the outcomes reflect both merit and momentum. Yet they also invite reflection: what do these selections signal about where Zimbabwean contemporary art stands and where it is headed? The most visible narrative to emerge from this year’s vi
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Painting Power Before I Understood It: A Portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (2004)
by Richard Mudariki While I was a student at Gallery Delta in Harare, under the mentorship of Helen Lerios and Derek Huggins, I painted a very strange painting for a 19-year-old art student to attempt. I painted a portrait of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What fascinated me most was not geopolitics, ideology, or religion. It was his beard. I had seen his face repeatedly on television and in a national newspaper. There was something formally compelling about the structure of his fac
NAMA 2026: Celebration of a New Generation of Zimbabwean Visual Arts
by Staff Writer The 2026 National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) have once again turned national attention toward Zimbabwe’s visual arts sector, and this year the results are as compelling as they are provocative. Officially announced and sealed, the outcomes reflect both merit and momentum. Yet they also invite reflection: what do these selections signal about where Zimbabwean contemporary art stands and where it is headed? The most visible narrative to emerge from this year’s vi
Artworld Passport at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026: Mobility, Multiplicity and the Performance of Access
by Wadzanai Machirirori Visitors to the artworld passport booth at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2026 At the 2026 edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, the Artworld Passport returned not as a speculative proposition but as an activated system. The booth operated less as a commercial stand and more as an art border post, archive, and civic registration office. Throughout the week at the CTICC, dense queues formed as new passport holders waited to be issued, photographe
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