Whitehot Magazine
May 2026
"The Best Art In The World"
"The Best Art In The World"
May 2026
Petra Mason
Cultural historian and vintage photography book author published by Rizzoli New York. Founder Obscure Studio and ArtHit. Whitehot arts and culture contributor since 2016.
Photography by (c) Thekiso Mokhele / Obscure Studio
articles by this author
Nicola Bailey : Between Dog and Wolf / Entre Chien et LoupPalma: The Conference of the Palm Trees. Artist Mehdi-Georges Lahlou and curator Virginie Puertolas-Syn in conversation.
Art World : Arts of Africa in New York Spring 2026
Exploded View : Edoardo Villa & 21st Century Sculpture
Pan-African Art Fair Style : Artists' Edition
Roger Ballen's Inside Out Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa
Petra Mason talks to Touria El Glaoui, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Founding Director
Art Week Mzansi Style : South African Edition by Petra Mason
David Gilmour's powerful LIVE AT THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS, ROME Interview by Petra Mason
AFRICAN ART : The ARAK Collection
EXPO CHICAGO 2025 : Southern African Highlights
Investec Cape Town Art Fair makes the Mother City more colourful
Stellenbosch Triennale
America’s Hip-hop Medicis: The Dean Collection at the Brooklyn Art Museum
Black Bounty: The Art of Zizipho Poswa at Southern Guild Los Angeles
RMB Latitudes art fair welcomed visitors to a uniquely African art experience that was inclusive, affordable and highly curated
Investec Cape Town Art Fair turns 10
Petra Mason on Horst P. Horst
Postcard from South Africa: ArtJoburg 2022
Barthélémy Toguo x Petra Mason in Conversation
Claudette Schreuders: Doubles at Jack Shainman Gallery
Despite Covid woes worldwide, Africa’s Emerging Painting Invitational (EPI) : the pan-African art prize stays strong
The New Black Portraiture
Zoltan Gerliczki's Cybernetic Organisms
Frances Goodman: Transmogrified at Richard Taittinger Gallery
Shifting the conversation: How the pan-African based African Art Galleries Association is addressing erasure by championing the growth and sustainability of art in Africa
Afrocentric voices from the Motherland
A Tribute to South African Artist JFC Clarke
Jacqueline Gopie: Freedom to Play at The Copper Door B&B
All That Glitters: Artist Frances Goodman
Nasty Women: Marilyn Minter Interview Part 2
Interview with Artist Marilyn Minter and Curator Ariella Wolens: Part 1
Igshaan Adams: Getuie at SCAD Museum of Art
Stellenbosch Triennale: Tomorrow there will be more of us
Grids : A selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman at Perez Art Museum
The Curator: Storm Janse van Rensburg
Michael James O'Brien: We Have Translated Each Other Into Light
The World’s Game: Fuìtbol and Contemporary Art at the Pérez Art Museum
Art and Politics Collide in South Africa's Cape Town Art Fair 2018
Meryl Meisler's Disco Inferno
Siren Song: Visual Artist and Writer Eurydice
Re-Mixing History: African Women Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2017
Ojo! Esperanza Cortés makes her Art Basel Miami Beach debut.
Inside Kate Shaw's Luminous Dreamscapes
Jacqueline Gopie Brings "Sweet Summertime" to Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami's Director Franklin Sirmans Leads The Way
Art Basel Miami Beach: MoMA PS1 and Artist Jacolby Satterwhite Hosted New York's Hood by Air and South African photographer Pieter Hugo Collaboration
