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Hip-hopping: The Back to the City Festival will take place in Johannesburg on 11 October. Photo: Supplied
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Diary: Back to the City Festival; Babalwa Mentjies; A Protea Is Not a Flower

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Albert Ibokwe Khoza as Credo Mutwa in The Eye of Rre Mutwa, a Shmerah Passchier film screening as part of FNB Art Joburg’s Open City film programme.
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Open City Film: 8 films, 3 days

Joan Legalamitlwa, the curator of Open City Film, knows that films deserve seated respect, not nose-around-the-corner sniffing at

  • Sean O Toole
7 min read
I Know What a Closed Fist Means (2020), consists of four photographic prints of oversized fists in which the artist challenges universal assumptions.
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Lerato Shadi: The body, the land and the toll of unsung labour

The artist continues to give voice to unrecognised labour through her expanding practice that includes durational performance, installation and video work

  • Kwanele Sosibo
12 min read