Arts Industry
latest news & developmentsCampbell Meas is done waiting
A candid look at Campbell Meas’s journey navigating creativity, identity and the challenges of breaking into the arts industry
Poetic justice lights up an artist’s life
There is a growing sense of alienation sweeping through the artistic community, in terms of support from both the state and the private sector.
The long road to dethroning patriarchy
Women and their place in the arts.
Letters to the editor: May 30 to June 5 2014
M&G readers speak their minds about policies against European culture in the arts and EFF commissar Andile Mngxitama’s open letter to Richard Branson.
East Africa ups the fashion stakes
Fashion Weeks in Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi provide a showcase for local designers and are spurring similar events in neighbouring countries.
Art is education
What benefits can be had from art in a young developing democracy such as ours? Mpho Moshe Matheolane takes the arts back to the classroom.
Q&A: The French-South African season
The M&G chats to Laurent Clavel of the French Season in South Africa 2012 which sees collaboration in theatre, music and other arts.
Soweto Theatre: A dream realised
The R150-million Soweto Theatre complex opens this week and forms part of an ambitious development plan to revive Soweto’s cultural life.
Zim’s new age of boredom
Supermarkets are choked with goods, garages compete for customers, but artists are fresh out of material for satire, writes Jason Moyo.
A way to keep the dust down
Particularly at this time of year, dust is the curse of desperate housewives. It is also the cause of sinus problems and lung irritations.
Cutting through black and white
What the latest spat over racism in the theatre means for the transformation of the arts