Art

Return to Fook Island

Monday, May 20th, 2013 by Layla Leiman
Fook Island In 1971, in response to yet another conceptual art show, Walter Batiss purportedly came up with the idea of creating a fake island. “I will make up a concept of an island,” he said, and “the concept will become real. It won’t just be a selfish thing that an artist makes and pins onto the wall, but something that everyone can participate in. That will make the island real…[although] it is a fake island.” ...read more


Last Sunday

Sunday, May 19th, 2013 by Jonathan Kyriakou
tatoo Last Sunday Elsie’s River 12hr49. ...read more


Rap Shaped Me

Saturday, May 18th, 2013 by Alastair Laird
Rap Shaped Me *Comic © Alastair Laird. ...read more


Livin’ on a Prayer

Monday, May 13th, 2013 by Hugh Upsher
logo My mom drove for five hours to Cape Town to see Bon Jovi perform. When I asked her how old she was when Slippery When Wet came out she shrugged in a way that indicated she wasn’t sure she understood the question properly. Bon Jovi is one of those bands that have just always been around. Regardless of whether you were buying their albums, you’re guaranteed to know more than a few of their songs. ...read more


Last Sunday

Sunday, May 12th, 2013 by Mia van der Merwe
Last Sunday Last Sunday, Tankwa Town. ...read more


Spam the Man

Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Spam the Man ...read more


Last Sunday

Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Rust Last Sunday in the Durban alleyways 16h32 ...read more


On Deaf Ears

Saturday, April 27th, 2013 by Alastair Laird
1 On Deaf Ears ...read more


The Funeral

Friday, April 26th, 2013
Aryan Kaganof | The Funeral Dada bin ubu poetry and werewolf vocals. Rumours of his death were somewhat exaggerated. His books include Drive-Thru Funeral, Tombstone Dues, Post-Mortemist Poems as well as the much funnier Ballad Of Sugar Moon And Coffin Deadly. Best known for inventing the “feelbad” movie genre with such audience pleasers as SMS Sugar Man. ...read more


Symbolic Possession

Monday, April 22nd, 2013 by Andrei van Wyk
Symbolic Possession Tonight, windy and desolate in downtown Johannesburg, marks the opening of Mikhael Subotzky’s new exhibition Retinal Shift. At the age of 32, the Standard Bank Young Artist of 2012 has become an important, uh, ‘voice’ in South African art photography. ...read more