By Tamlyn Martin What a privilege it was to attend this year’s Venice Biennale. Best of all, I got to visit with my wonderful Italian exchange student from Cape Town, who lives nearby and knows his way around the floating city. The show is elegantly tilted “The Milk of Our Dreams” after a book by surrealist …
By Craig Barrowman Having grown up in the Eastern Cape, I have many nostalgic memories of the National Arts Festival.After a long absence, I returned in 2014 and 2016 with an open mind, trying not to have highexpectations, but was blown away both times with the quality of shows and the general experience.Having planned to …
By Carol Brown – Curate.a.Space After 2 years of low-key activity the Meta Foundation opened its doors to showcase the results of over 100 artists at the last weekend of May. What a triumphant return it was. The 2 days were over subscribed and I can’t think of a single event held recently which had …
By Sarah Barret – Joburg 360 When the interior design of the new Constitutional Court budget was made available, Justice Albie Sachs and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, spent the entire budget on one artwork; a splendid tapestry called ‘Humanity’ by Joseph Ndlovo. Their cap-in-hand request for more money was met with a stern ‘No’, and so …
By Talita Swarts On the 1st of June I attended the exhibition ‘Salon Afrique – a Homecoming Reimagined’ curated by Beathur Mgoza Baker and Sara Bint Moneer Khan for the reopening of the District Six Museum Homecoming Centre’s cultural venue. The exhibition explored themes of visibility, a safe passage and creating a homecoming away from …
By Craig Barrowman For the 3rd time I found myself in the privileged position of joining a walking tour led by the great architect and doyenne of art deco, Dr Andre van Graan. The first was one of Kate Crane Briggs’ Culture Connect outings – look out for it, she repeats it from time to …
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By Talita Swarts During May I decided to take a long overdue trip to Johannesburg. Once I managed to figure out the rental car and took the wrong off-ramp twice with double the amount of traffic moving at a much faster pace that I am used to in Cape Town I felt at home. This …
By Kate Crane Briggs With autumn in Cape Town, comes rain and shine – unpredictable weather. So a great time to pop into galleries and museums. There is so much art in Cape Town – great quality, variety and accessibility. I got a call last week, “help, client just arrived – scheduled to go up …
What a privilege to chat with Sarah Güsten-Marr this month about the exceptional philanthropic art, spoken word and song project she is currently pioneering with The Imbumba Foundation’s annual Trek4Mandela Expedition endorsed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Sarah has written and produced a beautiful song and donated beautiful abstract expressionist works that she will auction …
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The International Public art Art Festival has been interesting. Until the end of Wednesday we weren’t sure where all the artists were going to be painting, one only started this afternoon, because the city declined some of the applications for permits, and then the organisers scrambled to find alternative walls for those who hadn’t been …