With new twists to the ongoing saga, it appears that the new arts minister has inherited a hot potato in the shape of the National Arts Council. Kim Gurney investigates.
Tall Horse is a richly textured work of diverse traditions, writes Brent Meersman. Watching the production is to experience one of those rare moments where an extraordinarily ambitious and precarious concept comes together with beauty and sensitivity.
"There are amazing stories to tell about South Africa – stories of amazing courage and amazing cowardice, about integrity and betrayal." The real story of South Africa is not yet recorded in our arts and at heritage sites, Pallo Jordan tells Estelle Randall.
This year’s nominees and judges for the Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) Awards, held in association with the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> and Nedbank, have been announced. And a worthy list it is indeed.
A large slice of Gregory Maqoma’s repertoire is devoted to answering: “Who am I in this new South African set-up?” Predictable for a young black artist, one might argue except that this choreographer has an unpredictable take on the world. Andrew Gilder looks at <i>Ketima</i>
A new book is the most important yet on contemporary South African art, writes Shaun de Waal.
A call has been made for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to involve civil society in its decision-making process — in deed, as well as in word. This came ahead of the annual SADC summit for heads of state and government that gets under way on Thursday in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru.
A neo-Nazi organisation is poised to purchase a hotel in a town in Germany after local residents failed to come up with enough money to stop the sale. In a race against the clock that made headlines around the world, people in Delmenhorst near Bremen held bake sales and staged fund-raising barbecues to try to scrape together money to thwart a rich, neo-Nazi lawyers’ organisation from buying property in their town.
The grand assemblage of Muslim MPs, members of the House of Lords (peers) and leaders of 38 key United Kingdom groups who signed an open letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair last weekend are almost certainly right. British foreign policy has helped foment murderous extremism among British Muslims.
”I’m not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.” And raises Manhattan towers? Jonathan Glancey speaks to Daniel Libeskind, planner of Ground Zero and globetrotting architect.