Arts and Culture

I have fasted in my life — once for a period of two months. Eating at dawn and sunset each day but going without during the day. In times of...

The year 2016 seems to be slouching to some kind of morbid end. Commentators with a claim to progressive persuasions everywhere are making...

The thing about Leonard Cohen is that at the heart of his five-decade career the man’s vocals, especially after the 1960s, sounded just like how...

World-renowned musician Bruce Cassidy is returning to South Africa with his Anti-Gravity Machine show. Cassidy’s amalgam of...

Someone asked, quite bleakly, whether 2016 was directed by Quentin Tarantino. Does anyone remember the opening sequence of Natural Born...

Philip Nchipi Tabane’s latest album, ...

Abdullah Ibrahim, the virtuoso jazz composer known as Dollar Brand who born Adolph Johannes Brand, turned 82 last month and performed four solo...

The midpoint of this week came with the news that singer Thandiswa Mazwai’s new album Belede would be released through the Universal...

Deborah Willis (chair, department of photography and imaging, Tisch/SCA and NYU), Cheryl Finley (director, visual studies, Cornell University),...

BORN A CRIME by Trevor Noah

The art of going out with a bang — former public protector Thuli Madonsela possesses this elusive talent. The hallowed author of the 355...

Nothing destroys one’s enjoyment of and confidence in a work of nonfiction more than coming across factual howlers. If that’s in a field about...

For the past three years, I have been involved in a protracted meditation on Thundercat. Graeme Arendse (art director, Chimurenga) reckons...

This year has taught me that love is a skill that is lost to many of us because, among other things, we prioritise romantic love and are taught to...

The first time I heard of Project Elo, the ensemble project anchored by Tumi Mogorosi’s drumming, a friend was enthusing about a launch...