Arts and Culture

Rixon pushes the sonic envelope
Rixon pushes the sonic envelope
Full disclosure: Thor Rixon and I go way back.
Multiple masculinities reflected in SA’s menswear
Multiple masculinities reflected in SA’s menswear
There was a time not so long ago when the menswear at fashion weeks was the sad, reluctant partner to the women’s shows. Dragged along for the...
Moms in a park is a mother of a story
Moms in a park is a mother of a story
Describe yourself in a sentence.This is such a hard thing to do, so maybe I should quote my Twitter bio: writer, reader,...
Of love, loss and watermelons ...
Of love, loss and watermelons ...
They walked into the place, that place in Obs with the bottomless coffee and black consciousness books, dreadlocked revolutionary artists in...
​Poignant images from postcolonial diasporas
​Poignant images from postcolonial diasporas
The scale of Let Me Begin Again, which is the second edition of South-South, a Goodman Gallery Cape Town instalment of exhibitions focusing on the Global South, floods the senses....
Peter Abrahams, a black man who spoke of freedom, has died
Peter Abrahams, a black man who spoke of freedom, has died
Writer Peter Abrahams, who has died aged 97 in Jamaica, lived only the first 20 years of his very long life in South Africa, the land of his...
Is ‘Fuck White People’ fucking itself?
Is ‘Fuck White People’ fucking itself?
Through consideration of Dean Hutton’s Fuck White People exhibition, I’ve happened on the thought that the reason the work engenders...
Celebrating queer survival
Celebrating queer survival
Lining the walls of Johannesburg’s Goethe-Institut, large-scale black-and-white images offer an intimate, seductive and ultimately celebratory...
Honouring a Mother City mainstay
Honouring a Mother City mainstay
“I’m heading to the cricket at like five to try beat the traffic, then playing a set at this basement party,” says Alvhin Adendorff,...
The weekly pop sack: It’s going to be a long four years
The weekly pop sack: It’s going to be a long four years
OPINIONThere are no simple answers to some questions. Mostly there are no answers, in the often missed wisdom of Kanye West....
Moonlight's shine remedies
Moonlight's shine remedies
It’s difficult to write about a film that has already been so widely covered. Moonlight has racked up a string of awards, most notably...
​Coldcut x SA musicians in unique collaborative project
​Coldcut x SA musicians in unique collaborative project
Musical innovators Coldcut — the duo of Matt Black and Jonathan More — are in Johannesburg for the first time. It’s an overcast late...
Creative nonfiction's firm legs in Africa
Creative nonfiction's firm legs in Africa
SAFE HOUSE: EXPLORATIONS IN CREATIVE NONFICTION edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Dundurn Toronto)

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