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Nadine Botha

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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.

Local creations fill the Watershed stalls.

Curated retail is the antidote

Luxury shopping at the V&A’s Watershed and Zeitz Museum is not about price tags but rather authenticity and limited editions.

Changing the world of art – to click or not to click?

Clicktivism – can logging into a website and adding your name to a petition really change the world of art?

Guerilla art group Tokolos Stencil Collective poses dirty challenges to audiences and the art gallery.

Tokolos Stencil Collective: ‘Crap’ art designed to unsettle

Guerilla art group Tokolos Stencil Collective poses dirty challenges to audiences and the art gallery.

Spill the coffee beans and get people talking

A machine that is “definitely not the most efficient way to dispense coffee beans into packages” has been unveiled at the Truth HQ in Cape Town.

Seat of power: A Rock Girl bench on the fan walk in Cape Town.

Things of beauty: Rock girl benches

India Baird is a human rights lawyer who has taken the bench out of the courtroom and installed it in public spaces to create safe areas for women.

Rhode to fame well travelled

Incognito, he uses South Africa’s streets as his canvas – but his path to renown was international.

All about the food: The Outlandish Kitchen pop-up dinner at the Kalk Bay Community Centre.

Put money where your mouth is

Jules Mercer spares no expense in curating her marvellous feasts in the most unlikely venues.

Leanie van der Vyver shoes.

Stepping on toes

Leanie van der Vyver says her designs are a reaction to the things that bother her about modern society.

Stratflex furniture by Wintec won the innovation award.

Creativity, allure and inspiration

There was no shortage of beautiful things at this year’s Design Indaba Expo.

Grunge gives way to design in Woodstock

Woodstock is the go-to place for creatives who don’t have money to set up shop in the City Bowl.

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 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?

The purposeful questioner: Clare Butcher

The purposeful questioner: Clare Butcher

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

‘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.