Picturing Change: Curating visual culture at post-apartheid universities

An in-depth look at the evolving ethos of curating and collecting art at South African universities.

In Picturing Change, Brenda Schmahmann explores the implications of deploying the visual domain in the service of transformative agendas and unpacks the complexities, contradictions and slippages involved in this process. She shows that although most new commissions have been innovative, some universities have acquired works with potentially traditionalist - even backward-looking - implicati...