 | Seven years ago, the Druid of Kensington, a big bearded man with unkempt hair, kindly smile and encyclopaedic knowledge of language, exhibited his stuff – stones, bread rolls, old tools, 96 full bibles, 18 maps, two “manipulated” puzzles – at a Parkwood gallery. His mood at the time was unsettled and confused, but not immune to surprise, possibly even delight. Which is why he entitled his exhibition of stuff Nonplussed. ...read more |
“Proud to be labelled Racist”
Thursday, September 8th, 2011 by Sean O’Toole
Walking the Road
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 by Linda Stupart
 | When I asked my photographer friend, Rose Kotze, if she’d accompany me on a sunset walk on the Sea Point promenade to photograph “Walking the Road” the new public art generally referred to as those “damn dragonfly things” ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, September 4th, 2011 , images by pop skiet
 | Last Sunday, Melville Koppies, Johannesburg, 13h29 ...read more |
Long Period Swells
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 by Kristine Kronjé
 | During the FIFA World Cup last year Thomas Mulcaire together with Ricardo de Oliveira set out to shoot Afrika, a documentary film following a group of Brazilian surfers traveling from Maputo to Eland’s Bay. In extension to this film their exhibition of film stills Light and Variable Winds with a Large Long Period Swell showed at the Goodman Gallery Project Space in Johannesburg recently. Answering the question how soccer, surfing, Africa and art relate. This is the story… ...read more |
The Aerosol Seven
Friday, August 19th, 2011 by Andy Davis, images by Samora Chapman
 | The scene is on fire. The story of the “031 Aerosol Seven” seems to have swept the nation, sparking heated debates on the morality of public art, both legal and illegal and scrutinizing the very nature of public space (with a little side spat on the role of media sensationalism and journalistic bias). The battle came to a climax yesterday morning with Ewok, the godfather of Durban hip hop, taking on police spokesperson Eugene Msomi on East Coast ...read more |
Writing on the Wall
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 by Samora Chapman, images by Karen Logan
 | It was an icy Sunday morning. A handful of graffiti writers gathered to paint what everyone thought was a legal wall on Sydney Road, downtown Durban. The event had been organised weeks earlier and was openly publicized on various social networks. It wasn’t an ordinary graffiti jam. They were gathered to paint the name of a 17 year old kid, a comrade artist, Wesley Fischer aka Eiy5, who was hit by a steaming 18 wheeler truck and killed nearly five ...read more |
Struggle Posters
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
 | Trevor Paul A few weeks back we asked you to get involved and create posters for Printslam, Oppikoppi’s annual Poster Art Project. The theme was one particularly close to our liberal little hearts, the struggle to make original music in South Africa. We envisioned starving artists, busking musos, broke ass bass guitarists couch surfing from groupie digs to groupie digs… and that’s pretty much what we got. Checkit! ...read more |
Carpet of Memory
Friday, July 29th, 2011 by Aryan Kaganof
 | There are no tunes as such in Michael Blake’s composition Carpet of Memory. There is no thematic development. There is no traditional harmony. There is no teleology. There is no narrative. What is it then that the performers do that lasts 13 minutes? Well about halfway through the piece the instruments start hocketing in different combinations, a technique whereby the instruments fit in between each other. And then something else happens. ...read more |
Izikhokho Cartoons
Monday, July 25th, 2011 by Andy Davis
 | Imagine a universe where South Africa is under siege from the Swazis and Sothos and the only people standing in their way is a character named Zulu Boy and his friend Rudolph, an alien who sounds suspiciously white and suburban. There’s Jesus of the ANC who visits Zulu Boy in his sleep and tells him that the lord wants him to transfer money on the computer. A world where Shaka Zulu battles with the legendary samurai Hattori Hanzo and kicks ...read more |
Last Sunday
Sunday, July 24th, 2011 by Adam Kent Wiest
 | Last Sunday, St George’s Mall, 11h53. ...read more |
