Robyn Sassen remembers Frank Jolles as an ?uncompromisingly scrupulous cultural scholar.
The M&G LitFest brought together those who have a keen interest in ‘telling the untellable’ and keeping alive South African writing.
Nontobeko Ntombela, curator of contemporary art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), laughs about the idea of being considered a guinea pig.
Choreographers are surprising unsuspecting audiences by taking dance performance into new spaces.
This diverse collection of essays is a gauge of what’s hot and not in the contemporary art scene.
Run your eye along a rack of Sway clothing and you will see florals boasting witty discursions and matchsticks dancing with apparent haphazardness.
Robyn Sassen reviews <i>Bar Flies</i>, now on stage at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
The body is a brutalised landscape in a new exhibition of South African and Danish art, writes Robyn Sassen. From home we have Willem Boshoff, Kendell Geers and Karel Nel. From Denmark there are Claus Carstensen, Torben Christensen, Eva Koch and Marco Evaristti. Bloom offers ties to both places.
It all began with a perceived need for an art advisory facility in Johannesburg. Humble beginnings matured to realise a gallery called The Premises, 150m2 and 4,5m high, writes Robyn Sassen.
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/ 6 November 2002
The current exhibition of the works of European master Joan Miro exposes an artist striving to relate to African aesthetics writes Robyn Sassen.
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/ 24 October 2001
After its pre-opening teasers, the Joubert Park Public Art Project 2001 (JPP) is finally open, writes Robyn Sassen.