 | The cougars descend on me with practiced determination. Two of them. Mid-thirties, out of shape and tramp-stamped. Recent divorcees looking for a walk on the wilder and younger side, I peg them. “Are you a tattoo artist?” one of them asks, the phrase ‘tattoo artist’ imbued with fascination, her eyes with hunger. ...read more |
Ink and Loathing at the Tattoo Expo
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 by Max Barashenkov, images by Luke Daniel
Last Sunday
Sunday, January 29th, 2012 , images by Gabriel Cornell
 | Last Sunday, Cape Town, 20h59. ...read more |
The Horseshoe
Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by Sihle Mthembu
 | For how much longer in our post-apartheid jargon are we going to ignore the role of black people in helping to oppress other black people during the bad old days? The racial charges in our society are tired. Too often, they have been exercised in the pursuit of self-benefit. These people were there in Sharpeville in 1976, wielding knobkerries and firing bullets on command. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 , images by Dan Apter
 | Last Sunday, Hawston Beach, Hawston, 18h42. ...read more |
Fucking Hell | An Interview with Cameron Platter
Monday, January 16th, 2012 by Linda Stupart
 | Durban-based artist Cameron Platter is (in)famous within the South African contemporary art community for his biting satire of contemporary popular culture. Featuring trademark Afro-bling styling and politically incorrect struggle-art appropriation, Platter’s painstaking pencil-crayon drawings, jagged flash animations, wooden sculptures and ceramics feature secret lairs, zebras-from-space, pornography, penis enlargements, Rorke’s Drift and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Linda Stupart talks to him about his new show, John Muafengejo, being a Michaelis Graduate and the future. ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, January 8th, 2012 by Luke Daniel
 | Last Sunday, Kwa Mlamli, Gugulethu, 16h26. ...read more |
