Everard Read

This guide to Everard Read in Johannesburg traces Africa's oldest art gallery back to a 1913 shop selling silver and secondhand furniture in a raw young mining town, with paintings almost an afterthought in the window. It follows the gallery's namesake, who returned from the Second World War determined to make art the point, just as South Africa slid into apartheid isolation from the world's museums and collectors. It also considers CIRCA, the fin-wrapped oval annex the gallery built next door in 2009. Stand between the two buildings to take in over a century of history in one glance.