Brett Bailey

Changing the world of art – to click or not to click?

Article Nadine Botha - 10 Dec 2014

Clicktivism - can logging into a website and adding your name to a petition really change the world of art?

Blood on the tarmac: Brett Bailey speaks

Article bogdan TagDiv - 2 Dec 2014

Playwright and artist Brett Bailey shared this post on Facebook about this past weekend's protests against Exhibit B, currently showing in Paris.

Nathi Mthethwa weighs in on Brett Bailey, freedom of speech

Article bogdan TagDiv - 20 Oct 2014

As issues relating to freedom of expression make news, the former police minister has finally spoken out on the controversy surrounding 'Exhibit B'.

Brett Bailey’s show cancellation reeks of ‘censorship’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 Sep 2014

Theatre representatives have expressed anger over the shutting down of Brett Bailey's 'Exhibit B', but a protester says they didn't call for a ban.

Brett Bailey: The intention of Exhibit B was never hatred

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Sep 2014

Theatre director Brett Bailey feels that his right to address racism in his own creative way, as a white South African, has been challenged.

Brett Bailey’s London exhibition cancelled

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Sep 2014

"Exhibit B" by South African artist Brett Bailey that displays black people as "artefacts recreated from history museums", has been cancelled.

Letters to the editor: September 19 to 25 2014

Article bogdan TagDiv - 18 Sep 2014

Readers comment on Kebby Maphatsoe's character assassinations and protecting the public protector, and respond to a story on Brett Bailey's Exhibit B.

Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B knots up London knickers

Article Robyn Sassen - 4 Sep 2014

Theatre director Brett Bailey can't believe how "a global capital of democracy" has reacted to his works decrying objectification.

Bailey brings signature sardonic humour to Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 May 2014

Stretching the translations to its limit, Brett Bailey removes the frills of Verdi's opera without taking from its beauty.

Blazing new directions in drama

Article bogdan TagDiv - 7 Sep 2012

Brett Bailey reveals the thinking behind his site-specific interpretations of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea for European audiences.

Recreating the inhumane spectacle

Article Percy Zvomuya - 4 Jul 2012

Brett Bailey's new work recreates the museums and spectacles in Europe to which millions of people flocked to see "inferior" darker races.

Art goes public in Cape Town in a big way

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Feb 2011

Public art is gathering momentum, even as funding budgets are slashed and is taking over the Cape Town city centre.

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