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The Joburg Art Fair this year is different. In fact, it’s not the Joburg Art Fair anymore. It’s now Art Joburg — under new ownership and with a new format. It remains, however, sponsored by FNB and its new owner is its former director, Mandla Sibeko.

Art Joburg will be smaller than the Joburg Art Fair has been in recent years. It has gone "back to the basics", Sibeko says, and as operations director Vicky Ross puts it, it is more focused. "We’re concentrating on quality of content," she says. There will be fewer galleries showing a much more selective and carefully curated variety of top artists. Says Sibeko: "We have to make sure the standard is of the highest quality."