Marcia Elizabeth / 6 days ago

‘Ugly Girl Hand Cream’ invites you to a pink purgatory

Flat, ‘base’. A juxtaposition of unease. She paints a shadowless rendition of a willow tree, sky and grass in pink-red captioned: SUPER REAL...

Marcia Elizabeth / 2 weeks ago

Mantsho Lifestyle at 27 Boxes radiates a Beautiful Complexion

27 Boxes upholds sustainability, local economy and community and is one of the few spaces in Johannesburg with this contemporary retail outl...

Christopher McMichael / 3 weeks ago

Applied Ballardianism: Memoirs from a Parallel Universe by Simon Sellars

In 2009, a news item in the Hollywood Reporter announced that a film adaptation of the late British writer’s J.G. Ballard’s Running Wild, st...

Gemma Hart / 1 month ago

Gadesi Skhathi // The Time is Now for Zana Masombuka

B'thaka s'yananaba,snanabel' iqiniso Ibekiwe is'londa s'babel umniniso Ivuth'amalangabi ngendeni lendaba,siyatjha Ndl' ekulu,B'nzin...

Christa Dee / 1 month ago

Onder Die Invloed // merging design disciplines

Clearly defined markings that designate where one creative practice ends and another begins is almost impossible, with practitioners recogni...

Gemma Hart / 1 month ago

Ernesto Neto // Exploring Biomorphism and the Interconnectedness of the Natural World

Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named ...

Marcia Elizabeth / 1 month ago

‘PLAN B A GATHERING OF STRANGERS (OR) THIS IS NOT WORKING’ by Goldendean

When considering points in a lifecycle of Goldendean there are many beginnings, but I imagine they exist in potentia on the mine-dumps of Jo...

Darnelle Thompson / 1 month ago

Luck MrEmpty shares on the art of graffiti

Street art is a diverse art movement, one that has grown in popularity as work being exhibited in the streets continue to develop in size, s...

Lula Ososki / 1 month ago

Discussing Fluidity–An Interview with Harris Reed and Lynette Reed

This is such an amazing opportunity to have two generations that are creatively and personally intertwined and, I suspect, interdependent. F...

Marcia Elizabeth / 1 month ago

SMITH Studios Closes 2018 with ‘Rendezvous’

SMITH Studios opened its summer exhibition Rendezvous on the 5th of December 2018 featuring work by 23 of the gallery’s artists of 2018. Ren...

Christa Dee / 2 months ago

Follow the egg trail // Newwork 18

If you have spotted stickers with images of cracked eggs or seen people walking around Braamfontein with the same image printed on black and...

Nkgopoleng Moloi / 2 months ago

The gender-sex bell curve and the myth of progress

When a beautiful, innocent baby is born we hail; ‘it’s a boy’ or ‘it’s a girl’. The performance begins —You will wear pink and not blue, ...