Good week

Barberton-born was one of three women artist honorees fêted at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art’s second annual African Art Awards dinner. She joined another renowned artist — Cairo-born French national Ghada Amer — and US philanthropist Alice

Walton at the event, which formed part of the museum’s larger women’s initiative, under the theme “honour, inspire and include”. Sibande also exhibited sculpture and digital prints from her The Purple Shall Govern collection in London.

Mary Sibande