Dance Umbrella: Festival streets ahead with new dances
Robyn SassenThe Dance Umbrella has been reconstructed and this year’s offerings enhance the genre’s dimensions.
Blk Brothers get it together
Bongani KonaFor their next project, the Blk Jks have teamed up with performance art collective, the Brother Moves On, to present "Blk Brother".
The Bokoni story unearthed
Amanda EsterhuysenThe book "Forgotten World" offers insight into stone-walled archaeological sites and an understanding of the economies of early farming societies.
Clash of cultures sets stage on fire
Robyn SassenChoreographer Constanza Macras who staged the celebrated "Hell on Earth" at the Dance Umbrella six years ago, is back again with a new production.
Young Fathers: Race gets 'head-on' pop mix
Guardian ReporterYoung Fathers's new album promises to be their interpretation of what a pop album should sound like.
Notes from the Design Indaba Conference: Day 2
Arts deskPre- and post-lunch bites from the speakers on the second day of the Design Indaba conference.
A month when black history and activism take centre stage
stefanie jasonThe story of Assata Shakur – wanted by the FBI since 1973 – shows how revolutionaries do not ‘drop from the moon’ but are shaped by society.
Don't Miss This: Feb 27 - March 5
Arts deskFrom Young Fathers performing around SA to That Art Party headlined by Brother Moves on, we round-up some of the country's hot-ticket events.
Notes from the Design Indaba Conference: Day 1
Arts deskPre- and post-lunch bites from the speakers on the first day of the Design Indaba conference.
Five South African illustrators making their mark
Design Indaba teamFrom doodles to full-scale book projects, these young graphic designers bring their talents to this year's Design Indaba Expo as Emerging Creatives.
What had us talking: Oscars red carpet, Zim censors 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
From what actors like Lupita Nyong'o and Scarlett Johansson wore, to the death of legendary jazz musician Clarke Terry, here's what had us talking.
Sindiso Khumalo: 'Buildings’ made of cloth
stefanie jasonRaised in Durban but now resident in London, Sindiso Khumalo’s textiles, on show at the 2015 Design Indaba, are a tapestry of her past and present.
Oscars: 'Birdman' soars to win best picture
"Birdman", "Selma" and "The Theory of Everything" are among the winners at the 87th Academy Awards.
That Art Fair: The new kid on the block
The recently launched Cape Town art event, That Art Fair, hopes to nurture and invest in emerging talent.
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Nadine Gordimer dies at 90
Late Nobel laureate, author and apartheid activist Nadine Gordimer was a paradoxical kind of novelist. We look at her life in 19 images.
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Tea with Dorothy Masuka
We chatted to legendary singer Dorothy Masuka about her music, Miriam Makeba, Brenda Fassie and why she performs more overseas than in South Africa.
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George Clooney at the premiere of "Gravity" at the 70th Venice Film Festival in Venice . August 28 2013. (Reuters)
