Anthea Buys
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The South African artist’s new film about a rape challenges the curators and concepts of art
Thing of beauty: Athlone Power Station
It is not surprising that so many Capetonians were distraught about the collapse of the Athlone Power Station’s two cooling towers in 2010.
Collection gets luxury objects down to an art
A new collaboration sees a handful of fine artists joining up with local designers to create unique designer objects.
The evolution of love
Anthea Buys was surprised that only two audience members walked out of the opening performance of Steven Cohen’s Cradle of Humankind.
Observers of the settlers’ town
Mikhael Subotzky’s new film brings the personal lives of Grahamstown’s resident tour guides into the settler discourse.
Pedal at your peril
Riding a bicycle as a simpler, more efficient way to travel? Not in Cape Town, writes Anthea Buys.
Jo’burg art pick: April 29 2011
A Norwegian artists’ collective will be invading the streets of Braamfontein.
Jo’burg art pick: April 22 2011
Seldom do local commercial galleries rummage through their storerooms to put on exhibitions.
Jo’burg art pick: April 8 2011
Donna Kukama positions her works as embodiements of intersubjective difference.
Jo’burg art pick: March 18 2011
Seldom do exhibitions curated as a footnote to conferences stimulate any more interest than the conferences themselves do.
Jo’burg art pick: March 11 2011
Brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana, who make up the industrial design duo Estúdio Campana, have an eye for junk.
Jo’burg art pick: March 4 2011
As an accompaniment to a conference titled Space, Ritual Absence, which takes place at FADA from March 9 – 11, the FADA gallery hosts an exhibition by the same name.
Jo’burg art pick: February 25 2011
Tracy Rose’s Waiting for God Rose goes far beyond mere provocation.
Johannesburg art picks: February 11 2011
Parts of the Keleketla! Library at the historic Drill Hall in Joubert Park have on several occasions been wheeled out onto the street.
Seen is believing in the art world
A number of young South African artists, including the prodigy Nicholas Hlobo, are making waves in the international art world.