The Art Edit: July 2025 Must-See Art Shows & Where to Stay
Your Monthly Art & Travel Guide
Summer is sweltering—and so is the art world. With heatwaves sweeping across the globe, I’ve found plenty of art (and plenty of AC) to keep you cool, grounded, and inspired.
From Philadelphia to Johannesburg, Berlin to Miami, this month’s exhibitions dig into memory, migration, protest, ritual, and repair. You’ll find performances that unfold in silence, paintings that double as portals, and materials that carry the weight of history—rubber, rope, rice, fabric, soil.
Whether it’s Toyin Ojih Odutola mapping stories onto the Berlin subway, EJ Hill kneeling in daily performance at 52 Walker, or Chakaia Booker transforming discarded tires into monumental reliefs, these shows stretch across mediums and continents with a shared urgency: to tell stories that matter, and to do so on their own terms.
From headline-making retrospectives to hidden gems with heart, these are the shows to seek out this month.
Best Art Exhibitions in New York, NY
Low-slung Promises on the Tongues of the Devout
Artist: EJ Hill
Location: 52 Walker (David Zwirner), New York, NY
Dates: Through September 13, 2025
Description: In his first endurance performance in seven years, EJ Hill returns with a powerful new commission that melds performance, painting, sculpture, and installation into a ritual of grief, faith, and renewal. Every day the gallery is open, Hill kneels in silence—an act of devotion, protest, and catharsis. This gesture, drawn from his Catholic upbringing, anchors the show’s exploration of belief systems and the transmission of dogma.
Surrounding the performance are paintings crafted from church kneelers, along with exuberant depictions of clouds and flowers rendered in vivid pinks, oranges, blues, and purples. These luminous works, referencing stained glass and sacred geometry, pulse with longing, joy, and transcendence. Curated by Ebony L. Haynes, the exhibition invites viewers to consider the body as both vessel and witness—a site of pain, memory, and transformation.
Why You Should See It: This is not performance for spectacle—it’s ritual as resistance. Hill’s stillness reverberates louder than any shout. It’s a profound meditation on suffering, salvation, and the politics of presence.
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Power Line: Yale School of Art
Artist: Graduate Class of 2025, Yale School of Art (Painting & Printmaking)
Location: Perrotin, New York, NY
Dates: Through August 1, 2025
Description: Perrotin’s third collaboration with Yale School of Art presents Power Line, a dynamic group exhibition by the 2025 MFA graduates. Spanning painting, sculpture, and installation, the show foregrounds a radical approach to materiality—using paint and canvas alongside steel, wood, soil, trash, linoleum, embroidery, wax, plastic, digital ephemera, and more.
These artists shrug off mere depiction. Instead, influenced by Platonic poetics, they create new forms and gestures—modulating perception, memory, and identity through both intentional and accidental processes. Surfaces are burned, layered, dyed, silkscreened, torn, compressed and repurposed—emerging as hybrid objects that blur boundaries between studio artifacts and sensory experience.
Why You Should See It: These emerging artists question what material can hold—and what making can mean. Power Line is the beginning of new poetics, where memory and matter merge into urgent, embodied statements.
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
Artist: Lorna Simpson
Location: The Met Fifth Avenue
Dates: Through November 2, 2025
Description: This landmark exhibition marks the Met’s first survey devoted to Lorna Simpson’s painting practice, showcasing over 30 recent works. Known for her conceptual photography, Simpson has, over the past decade, shifted toward large-scale paintings and collages—layering archival imagery from Ebony, Jet, and historical photo archives onto fiberglass, clayboard, and wood. Her compositions blend figuration, abstraction, and text to explore Black identity, representation, memory, and cultural fragmentation.
Why You Should See It: Anchored by works like True Value (2015) and Night Fall (2023), the exhibition maps Simpson’s evolution as she reclaims visual language to assert presence, dignity, and psychic complexity in Black life. They expand how we read image and identity. It’s layered, luminous, and politically precise.
Stay Longer
Artist: Chantal Khoury
Location: Nicodim Gallery, New York, NY
Dates: July 10 – August 15, 2025
Description: In her solo exhibition Stay Longer, Chantal Khoury transforms kitchen tables and coffee cups into intimate cartographies of memory, loss, and inheritance. Rooted in domestic ritual, Khoury’s paintings meditate on the act of hosting—offering up a visual language drawn from her Levantine upbringing, where food, gesture, and objects become extensions of self and ancestry.
Recurring motifs like peacocks, fruits, ceramics, and coffee cups appear again and again, not to preserve memory, but to activate it—to pick at the scar until it breathes. In Between Folds, a peacock’s feathers dissolve into a tablecloth, revealing ghostly dancers performing the Dabke. In Coffee and Orange Blossoms, pooled dark liquid pulses with contained motion, suspended in almost-white light. These are not still lives. They are thresholds.
Why You Should See It: Khoury paints with tenderness and tension. Her work isn’t about preserving memory—it’s about letting it shimmer, spill, and shift. These are paintings that host you, and haunt you.
Where to Stay in New York
• The Ludlow Hotel
• The Standard High Line
• PUBLIC Hotel
Best Art Exhibitions in Los Angeles, CA
How We Go
Artist: Gio Swaby
Location: Vielmetter Los Angeles
Dates: July 19 – August 30, 2025
Description: Gio Swaby returns with her signature large-scale fabric-and-thread murals, stitched portraits that celebrate Black womanhood with deep warmth. Drawing on textile labor and narratives of identity—as love letters to her subjects—this show continues her exploration of Black joy, intimacy, and visibility.
Why You Should See It: Swaby’s works aren’t just beautiful—they’re affirmations. They stitch together Black feminism, care, and visibility in a way that heals and expands.
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Be Your Own Cool
Artist(s): Kwesi Botchway
Location: Vielmetter Los Angeles
Dates: July 19 – September 13, 2025
Description: Kwesi Botchway anchors his canvases with figures from behind, locked in reflective poses against mirrors—icy hues and intimate gestures blend to materialize Black self-seeing. His immersive portraits meditate on joy, the gaze, and seeing the self through layered mirrors of memory and presence.
Why You Should See It: Botchway crafts a visual echo chamber—Black gaze as radical, affirming statement. It’s intimate, poised, and quietly powerful.
Second Body
Artist(s): Lucy Bull, Ali Eyal, Sayre Gomez, Shara Hughes, Tavares Strachan, Rachel Rossin, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, and Tristan Unrau, Kahlil Robert Irving, Josh Kline, Ohad Meromi, Shahryar Nashat, Berenice Olmedo, Magali Reus, Chiffon Thomas, and Kaari Upson, Guan Xiao, Rose Salane, and Ashley Teamer, Jeffrey Meris, Xin Liu, and Anicka Yi
Location: David Kordansky Gallery
Dates: July 15 – August 16, 2025
Description: Curated by Molly Everett, this multidisciplinary group explores the body as ritual, process, and archive. Featuring works in video, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition questions how embodied experience transforms through gesture, labor, and memory.
Why You Should See It: It’s cerebral, sensual, and subversive. Second Body invites you to think with your body, not just about it.
Mary Corse
Artist: Mary Corse
Location: Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: Through August 16, 2025
Description: Light and Space artist Mary Corse presents new and recent paintings that play with perception, luminosity, and gesture. Her minimalist surfaces shimmer and shift depending on the viewer’s angle, creating a meditative experience that blends scientific precision with spiritual subtlety.
Why You Should See It: You don’t look at a Corse—you experience it. These works reward patience and perception.
[siccer]
Artist: Will Rawls
Location: Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: Through August 31, 2025
Description:This immersive, interdisciplinary installation—Rawls’s most significant institutional presentation—combines dance, stop-motion animation, and sound to interrogate how Black bodies are mediated, distorted, and erased. Using chroma-green scaffolding as both stage and screen, Rawls and an all-Black cast glitch in and out of focus, disrupting the binaries of capture and performance. The title, drawn from “[sic]” (the editorial mark that signals “incorrect”), becomes a declaration of refusal: resisting Western correction and privilege in both language and visual form.
Why You Should See It: Here, Black presence is neither polished nor framed—it’s raw, fugitive, and resists containment. [siccer] asks us to dwell in the breaks, the glitches, the uncaptured. Its performance reimagined as protest—and poetics.
Black Cowboys: An American Story
Curators: Witte Museum in collaboration with The Autry
Location: Autry Museum of the American West
Dates: Through January 4, 2026
Description: Black Cowboys reclaims the story of the American West by highlighting Black cowboys and cowgirls—who made up one in four trail drivers. The exhibition journeys from Texas ranches to California cities, weaving together archival photos, historical and contemporary objects, personal narratives, and videos. Featuring contributions from Buffalo Soldiers, rodeo champion Charlie Sampson, and pioneer Sharon Braxton, it disrupts myths of the lone White cowboy to spotlight Black resilience, excellence, and legacy in the West.
Why You Should See It: This exhibition expands our understanding of the American West by centering the lives and legacies of Black cowboys, ranchers, and rodeo riders. Through personal stories and rarely seen historical material, it brings long-overlooked figures into view and challenges the dominant narrative of who shaped the Western frontier.
Where to Stay in Los Angeles
• Downtown LA Proper Hotel
• The Hoxton
• Pendry West Hollywood
Best Art Exhibitions in Denver, CO
Fuse Box
Artist: Sarah Sze
Location: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Dates: July 13, 2025 – July 2026
Description: This multimedia installation centers on Sleepers (2024), a six-channel video work projected onto over 300 hand-torn paper screens suspended from strings. Known for sprawling, fractal sculptures that weave together physical and digital space, Sze uses everyday detritus—paper, aluminum, household objects—and stock-footage videos to explore how we experience a rapidly technologized world.
Why You Should See It: Fuse Box entangles perception, material, and media into a delicate choreography. It’s immersive architecture that asks how every moment—mundane or monumental—echoes in our sensory lives.
Where to Stay in Denver
Best Art Exhibitions in Miami, FL
Mildred Thompson: Frequencies
Artist: Mildred Thompson
Location: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Dates: Through October 12, 2025
Description: This is the most comprehensive solo museum exhibition to date for Florida-born artist Mildred Thompson (1936–2003). Featuring approximately 50 works spanning 1959–1999—including paintings, sculptures, etchings, drawings, assemblages, and original electronic music compositions—the show traces her evolution from figurative and architectural work to deeply abstract explorations of cosmic and microscopic systems. Notable highlights include her Heliocentric Series, Music of the Spheres (1996), and the “Wood Pictures” and “Window Paintings.” Drawing on scientific ideas and spiritual sensibility, Thompson’s practice visualizes unseen forces through gesture, color, and structure.
Why You Should See It: This exhibition invites you to traverse scales—from cosmic vastness to minute particles—through one of the most poetic and intellectually rigorous abstractionists of the 20th century.
Passenger Opportunity
Artist: Hurvin Anderson
Location: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Dates: Through August 17, 2025
Description: Anderson’s first solo show at PAMM showcases a monumental, sixteen-panel painting inspired by the murals of Carl Abrahams at Kingston’s Norman Manley Airport. Stretching 160 x 384 inches, the work bridges abstraction and diaspora, drawing on Caribbean immigration narratives, landscape traditions, and visual archives to create a layered, immersive experience
Why You Should See It: Passenger Opportunity is both historical and immediate. Anderson’s vibrant panorama reframes landscape painting through diasporic lenses—encompassing memory, migration, and visual poetry.
Where to Stay in Miami
Best Art Exhibitions in Houston, TX
Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising)
Artist: Saif Azzuz
Location: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston
Dates: Through December 20, 2025
Description: In his first institutional solo show, Libyan–Yurok artist Saif Azzuz confronts settler-colonial narratives through multidisciplinary works—painting, assemblage, and site-specific installations. Focusing on Houston’s contested histories, Keet Hegehlpa’ ("the water is rising") weaves archival misrepresentations, Indigenous stewardship, and ecological resistance. Azzuz and collaborators reference early settler ads for Buffalo Bayou and visualize land, water, and resource extraction as intertwined legacies of injustice.
Why You Should See It: Azzuz’s work activates land as witness—melding personal, ancestral, and ecological memory. It asks us to rethink stewardship and imagine futures rooted in relational care.
Where to Stay in Houston
Best Art Exhibitions in Dallas, TX
Each Seed a Body
Artist: Otobong Nkanga
Location: Nasher Sculpture Center
Dates: Through August 17, 2025
Description: This major presentation from the 2025 Nasher Prize laureate features new and reimagined works deeply rooted in the North Texas ecosystem. Anchoring the exhibition is a 53-foot hemp rope installation coated with local and global organic materials—coffee, yucca, amaranth, and more—evoking lines of migration, trade, and land stewardship. Nkanga also debuts new versions of her ongoing Carved to Flow soap project, forging connections between place, labor, and shared material histories.
Why You Should See It: Nkanga creates multisensory sculptures that ask you to feel place—through smell, surface, and scale. Each Seed a Body reminds us that soil, spice, and scent speak volumes about history, memory, and ecological intimacy.
Where to Stay in Dallas
Best Art Exhibitions in Chicago, IL
City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Dates: July 5, 2025 – May 31, 2026
Description: Taking its title from Chicago’s official motto, Urbs in Horto (“city in a garden”), this expansive group exhibition foregrounds Chicago’s essential—yet often overlooked—role in the history of queer art and activism. Beginning in the mid-1980s, when queer artists and organizers mobilized in response to the government’s catastrophic mishandling of the AIDS crisis, the show traces the radical reclamation of “queer” as a liberatory identity and unifying political force.
Featuring over 30 artists and collectives from the 1980s to the present, the works span photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and archival ephemera. These artists document clandestine spaces, resist normative depictions of gender and sexuality, and reimagine intimacy, kinship, and care. Archival materials highlight the intersection of art and activism, positioning creativity as both refuge and resistance.
Why You Should See It: City in a Garden doesn’t just commemorate queer survival—it plants new seeds. This show is a necessary re-centering of Chicago as a crucible for queer artistic and political innovation. Utopian, defiant, and deeply communal, its visions of sanctuary feel as urgent now as ever.
Thus Masked, the World Has a Language
Artist(s): Group Exhibition
Location: Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
Dates: Through August 23, 2025
Description: This dynamic group exhibition centers on masquerade and mask traditions across the African diaspora—spanning Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. It features works by Raphaël Barontini, Lorraine O’Grady, Nick Cave, Ebony G. Patterson, Darryl Richardson, Tavares Strachan, and others. Through collage, lens-based media, sculpture, and Sound Suits, the show asserts masks as active agents—vessels for memory, identity, resistance, and ancestral reclamation. Whether concealing or revealing, masks—and the bodies within them—become conduits of intergenerational power and transformation.
Why You Should See It: Here, concealment is not silence—it is assertion. Thus Masked… reminds us the masked body—ritualized, ceremonial, communal—is a threshold for ancestral presence, political refusal, and diasporic continuity.
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Where to Stay in Chicago
• The Robey
• Thompson
• 21c Museum Hotel
Best Art Exhibitions in Philadelphia, PA
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
Artist(s): Mavis Pusy
Location: ICA Philadelphia
Dates: July 12 – December 12, 2025
Description: This landmark retrospective is the first major museum survey dedicated to Jamaican-born artist Mavis Pusey (1928–2019), featuring more than 60 works from her prolific 50-year career. Known for her striking use of geometric abstraction, Pusey’s paintings and works on paper reflect a deep engagement with fashion, printmaking, and the architecture of modern cities.
The show highlights key series like Broken Construction (1960s–1990s), in which Pusey visualized destruction and renewal as metaphors for social upheaval. Alongside her bold abstractions are photographs, archival notes, and ephemera that trace the evolution of her practice and her international presence in the art world—despite decades of institutional neglect.
Why You Should See It: This is more than a long-overdue moment—it’s a reintroduction to a pioneering Black woman who helped shape abstraction but was too often left out of the narrative.
Boom: Art & Design in the 1940s
Artists: Georgia O’Keefe, Ismamu Noguchi, Horace Pippin, and others
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dates: Through – September 1, 2025
Description: Boom excavates the 1940s as a decade of creative resilience. Drawing exclusively from the museum’s collection, this sweeping survey assembles over 250 objects—from Joan Eames’ curved plywood chairs to Peggy Tupper’s polyethylene containers, Pollock and Krasner’s early abstractions, Dior’s New Look, and Schiaparelli wartime fashion. It reveals how adversity sparked innovation in furniture, craft, fashion, photography, and painting .
Why You Should See It: This is more than nostalgia—it’s a manifesto on how scarcity gives rise to invention. You’ll see dystopia turned kinetic and utilitarian design reimagined for beauty, hope, and postwar freedom. Boom reminds us that limits can be the spark of creativity.
Where to Stay in Philadelphia
• Canopy
• Kimpton Hotel Monaco
• ROOST East Market
Best Art Exhibitions in Washington, DC
Love, Queen
Artist: Adam Pendleton
Location: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Dates: Through January 3, 2027
Description: This is Pendleton’s first solo exhibition in DC—a major survey of his recent paintings and a single-channel video work, housed in the museum’s inner-ring galleries. Best known for blending pictorial abstraction, text, and conceptual strategies, Pendleton knits together silkscreened drips, broken letters, and stenciled forms. The show includes works from his Black Dada, Days, WE ARE NOT, and newer Composition & Movement series. The central video piece, Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?), deploys archival footage from the 1968 Resurrection City protest camp and overlays abstract geometry, linking historical activism to visual forms of expression.
Why You Should See It: Pendleton’s layered practice collapses painting, printmaking, and historical pedagogy into immersive visual essays. Love, Queen asks us to slow down, read closely, and experience abstraction as a language of political and emotional resonance.
In the Tower: Chakaia Booker: Treading New Ground
Artist: Chakaia Booker
Location: National Gallery of Art (East Building Tower Level)
Dates: Through August 2, 2026
Description: This major presentation in the NGA's “In the Tower” series spotlights three monumental wall relief sculptures by Chakaia Booker—Acid Rain (2001), It’s So Hard to Be Green (2000), and Echoes in Black (Industrial Cicatrization) (1996). Fashioned from discarded tires and wood, these massive abstract forms both astonish and provoke. Alongside them is a six-part photogravure series, Foundling Warrior Quest (II 21C) (2010), in which Booker inserts herself into antiquated ethnographic imagery, recalibrating its narrative through environmental and cultural critique.
Why You Should See It: Booker’s sculptures command attention while challenging wastefulness and erasure—turning discarded rubber into layered, tapestry-like statements on environment and identity. This show asks you to reckon with the overlooked urgency of our material inheritance.
Where to Stay in Washington, DC
• Canal House of Georgetown
• Riggs
• Willard InterContinental
Best International Art Exhibitions
London
Rooted in Memory
Artist: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Location: Stephen Friedman Gallery
Dates: Through August 16, 2025
Description: Rooted in Memory marks the first UK solo exhibition of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940–2025), a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation and a towering figure in contemporary Indigenous art. Spanning five decades, this posthumous survey weaves together painting, drawing, print, and sculpture—combining abstraction, figuration, and political commentary in Smith’s unmistakable visual lexicon.
At its heart are the Tierra Madre paintings—her final body of work completed before her passing—which recast the Vitruvian Man as empowered Indigenous women, paying tribute to figures like Wilma Mankiller and Annie Lennox. Other highlights include works from her iconic I See Red and Trade Canoe series, which appropriate and remix American iconography to critique colonial narratives and assert Native survival. A dedicated room features vibrant drawings from the Petroglyph Park series (1985–87), originally made in protest of a housing development that threatened sacred sites near Albuquerque.
Why You Should See It: Urgent, unflinching, and rooted in both resistance and reverence, this show reclaims memory as both weapon and offering.
It’s in the Little Things
Curated by: Amoako Boafo
Location: Gagosian Shop, Burlington Arcade
Dates: July 3 – August 29, 2025
Description: This intimate group exhibition, curated by prominent Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo, showcases recent works by emerging talents—Stephen Allotey, Aplerh-Doku Borlabi, Kwesi Botchway, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Adjei Tawiah—alongside Boafo’s own pieces. It offers a quiet yet potent meditation on gesture, presence, and the everyday: small-scale portraits and canvases that resonate with sensuous detail and emotional depth.
Why You Should See It: Boafo’s curation is a celebration of nuance: portraiture that whispers rather than shouts. It underlines the power of "little things"—minor gestures, intimate glances—as radical assertions of Black humanity and kinship.
Where to Stay in London, UK
• Mimi’s Hotel SoHo
• Henrietta Experimental
• Royal Garden Hotel
Monaco
Stream of Consciousness
Artist: Annie Leibovitz
Location: Hauser & Wirth, One Monte‑Carlo
Dates: Through September 27, 2025
Description: This is Leibovitz’s first solo presentation in Monaco, featuring a fluid, non‑linear selection of her recent work—portraits, still lifes, and landscapes made over the past two decades. Departing from chronological storytelling, the exhibition invites viewers into her associative visual diary, where images “rhyme” across time and place.
You’ll encounter portraits of cultural figures (from Amy Sherald to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson), glimpses into private interiors (Elvis Presley’s bullet‑pierced TV), and meditations on space (Georgia O’Keeffe’s red hill) By juxtaposing these, Leibovitz mines intimacy, theater, and memory in equal measure.
Why You Should See It: This exhibition is not just about seeing Leibovitz’s celebrated eye—it’s about thinking with it. The show gestures toward photography as emotional architecture, where each image is a node in a broader, associative network. It’s cinematic, poetic, and quietly revelatory.
Where to Stay in Monaco
• Hotel Port Palace
• Le Meridien Beach Plaza
Paris
Portals to Unwritten Time
Curated by: Barbara Newman
Location: Perrotin Paris
Dates: Through July 26, 2025
Description: This group exhibition of thirteen international artists explores how art functions as a portal through time—inviting viewers into liminal spaces of memory, myth, and intuition. Inspired by Hilma af Klint’s concept of art as symbolic thresholds, the show features works that move sideways through history and imagination. Highlights include Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s kinetic bamboo sculpture Tear; Isabelle Albuquerque’s mythic figurative forms in Venus Rising; and Chiara Camoni’s animist stoneware portals.
Why You Should See It: These works aren’t declarations—they’re doorways. Each piece offers a moment of attunement, demanding presence and openness to the unspoken and the unseen.
Where to Stay in Paris
• Hotel Sookie
• Le Petit Beaumarchais
• Monsieur George
Berlin
U22 – Adijatu Straße
Artist: Toyin Ojih Odutola
Location: Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Dates: Through January 4, 2026
Description: This is Ojih Odutola’s first solo exhibition in Germany, transforming the museum’s East Cabinet into Adijatu Straße, a fictional station on a Berlin subway line. The show features around 25 detailed drawings in ink, charcoal, and pastel—what the artist describes as narrative portraits woven through everyday and monumental settings. Rooted in her identity as a West African woman raised in the American South, the works engage skin as geography and use figurative portraiture to activate histories of identity, power, and storytelling.
Why You Should See It: These drawings map the porous intersections of memory, myth, and migration. Ojih Odutola uses portraiture not to capture truth but to conjure complexity, inviting viewers into layered stories of self and society.
Where to Stay in Berlin
• SO / Berlin Das Stue
• TITANIC Gendarmenmarkt Berlin
• Hotel Adlon Kempinski
Johannesburg
Earth Pictures
Artist: Yinka Shonibare
Location: Goodman Gallery
Dates: June 5 – July 24, 2025
Description: In his first solo exhibition on the African continent, Yinka Shonibare probes the legacy of Western colonialism and industrialization through quilts, masks, and sculpture. The new Nature Works quilt series—debuting here—reimagines landscapes ravaged by oil drilling, gas flares, and mining across Africa. His carved wooden masks echo endangered wildlife, blending batik textiles into a visual response to ecological risk and cultural memory. The show runs parallel to his survey at Fondation H in Madagascar, creating a powerful continental dialogue.
Why You Should See It: Shonibare fuses beauty and rupture: ornate textiles and handcrafted forms carry urgent environmental critiques. It’s a richly layered meditation on extraction, heritage, and resilience.
Where to Stay in Johannesburg
• The Houghton
• The Four Seasons