The preferred glass for bubbly is not flute-shaped, the boffins hold out. It’s round.
In South Africa the dop to drink for just about all disorders has always been brandy.
’Tis the season to be merry for top performers in the business of making wine.
The cerebral edge of Stephen Hobbs’s art is shown in this wide-ranging and thoughtful exhibition.
The rapid growth of “art fairs” globally could either be the upside or downside of the future of the art industry, writes Melvyn Minnaar.
After 30 years, Penny Siopis’s work still takes chances with materials, inventing images and, in the process, negotiating happenstance.
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/ 27 November 2014
For many hoping to see their work placed in the public sphere, the easy route seems to be an approach of "play-play".
Artists Lien Botha and Clementina van der Walt have staged an intervention in Irma Stern’s house that interacts directly with her art in the museum.
A director of Iziko Museums is back at work after winning a labour dispute, but the national gallery is a more serious victim of SA arts bureaucracy.
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/ 12 December 2006
The politics of provision are heating up as Slow Food’s symbolic snail sets out to establish global power. Right now the fuel of that crusade is raw milk. Established in 1986 in Bra, Italy, the Slow Food movement is a worldwide organisation. (There are active groups in Johannesburg and Cape Town.) Positioned as a counter-balance […]