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Where hypervisibility meets true transformation in the arts

Twelve women curators speak of the challenges of being top decision-makers in South Africa’s art world.

Against type: Postcards from Morotia punches home the Blackheart Gang’s coolness factor.

Art with a black heart

The new Cape Town exhibition from a cult artists’ collective delves into Africa’s war-torn history.

Bodies of work: Gunther von Hagens’s plastinated bodies on display in Cape Town.

Plastic post-mortality has been perfected

Having showed across the world for the past 15 years, the blockbuster Body Worlds exhibition has now berthed in Cape Town.

Micheal Elion’s rainbow outside the Commune.1 gallery.

Thing of beauty: Elusive art for man in the street

A man-made rainbow, comprising simply sunlight and water, has popped up in Cape Town.

Gold foil: Designer Peet Pienaar helped to decorate the  pop-up space.

Pop-up one-upmanship

The Spier ‘Secret’ Festival is trading on the current obsession to experience something others can’t.

Wilhelm Stegmann was a participant in the colourful Cobern Pansexual Street Fair in Cape Town.

Fold up your washing, sisters

Nadine Botha recounts her day at the Cobern Pansexual Street Fair in De Waterkant, Cape Town, in what is left of the somewhat decimated "gay village".

Two children are feared missing at sea in different parts of the country.

Fine food on four wheels: The truck stops here

From roach coaches to taco trucks to upmarket lunches, the gourmet food truck is all grown up and it has come, writes Nadine Botha.

The purposeful questioner: Clare Butcher

The purposeful questioner: Clare Butcher

Clare Butcher believes that "the root of the word curate is to care".

The rigorous historian: Anthea Buys

The rigorous historian: Anthea Buys

Where does an independent curator fit into a South African art landscape that is split between commercial galleries and archival museums?

Woodstock: A work in progress?

Artist uproar as gentrification in the Woodstock Industrial Centre has threatened the suburb’s ‘run-down’ factory atmosphere.

‘Like giving birth’ tagline is a bit laboured

‘Like giving birth’ tagline is a bit laboured

To this writer, comparing the creating of art to giving birth smacks of pre-modernist religious romanticism and teenage art angst.

Shaping cities

Shaping cities

A new film explores citizen-driven design and lessons to be learned from the West’s mistakes.

Chinks in the shadows

Chinks in the shadows

Viviane Sassen explores the spaces between home and away, night and day, life and dreams.

Fresh from the balcony

Fresh from the balcony

More Capetonians are realising that growing their own vegetables is the healthiest way to go.

Street Challenge helps Cape Town get a makeover

Street Challenge helps Cape Town get a makeover

A number of new projects intend to create jobs, generate microeconomies, educate school children, build the community and beautify the landscape.

Design made easy

Design made easy

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit’s documentary about everyday things we take for granted shows at this year’s Design Indaba Film Festival.

South moves up top

This year’s Design Indaba will try to define the South African aesthetic. Nadine Botha asks what that means and how it can be achieved.

From ambience to luminence

<b>Nadine Botha</b> explores the ideas that inform the visual art of musician and painter with light Brian Eno.

What points to ballet?

"The most exciting dance comes from the moments of fusion, of contorted bodies and sassy hips, and the theatrical characterisation, rather than the abject geometry of classical…

Anatomy of the punk kitten

Nadine Botha speaks to a crop of girl rockers who want to be recognised for their musical ability, not their bra size