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Curating Jo’burg’s FoodWineDesign Fair

From scouring Twitter to braaiing burgers, curator Roberta Coci speaks to the M&G about puting the pieces of this year’s FoodWineDesign Fair together.

Museum piece: The Credence ‘shines like a racing car.’ (Supplied)

Lust for dreamers

Sleek lines and a magical finish give Xavier Lust’s Credence an otherworldly presence.

Main sqeeze: If the corset fits, wear it. (Ben skinner)

Tight-laced, not strait-laced

A chance trip to the shopping haven of 44 Stanley Avenue in Jo’burg, brought me into contact with something quite unexpected.

Thing of Beauty, Uncles and Angels. (Supplied)

Buying art at the fair?

We asked four people involved in the arts the important question:

Nelisiwe Xaba and J Mocke van Veuren’s digital art work Uncles & Angles has won the FNB Art Prize. (Supplied)

Eleven new galleries exhibiting at Jo’burg Art Fair

The FNB Jo’burg Art Fair has launched, with an announcement that 11 new galleries would be showing work at the fair for the first time.

Retrospective perspective: 100 paintings by Simon Stone are on display at the Standard Bank Gallery. (David Harrison)

Jo’burg’s ghostly trail of Stones

Simon Stone’s works, often containing juxtapositions of seemingly unrelated images, resist easy ?interpretation by the viewer – and by the artist.

David Kau and Joey Rasdien in Blitz Patrollie.

South African Cannes festival presence largest yet

150 local filmmakers having registered to attend the 66th edition that opened on Thursday.

Illuminating the art of recycling

Illuminating the art of recycling

Her name is Marilyn and she’s an object — not necessarily a sex object because, well, she doesn’t have the parts.

Succulent food

Succulent food

The Karoo may be arid, but its kitchens are bubbling over with many recipes that come from the heart.

Garbage lady: Marianne Fassler’s rubbish-clad gowns are brought to life by Robyn Orlin and the Moving into Dance Mophatong dancers.

Moving from rubbish to riches

Marianne Fassler and Robyn Orlin put the trash into tutus and tiaras.

The taming of the beasts

Streets ahead in the realm of public art

Enigmatic artist Faith47 has painted walls from Milan to Melbourne — and now she is making her mark in Jo’burg.

From the West End to the East Rand

Naughty but so nice

From the West End to the East Rand, vintage style meets modern pop in a saucy burlesque show.

DeLaVallet Bidiefono of the DRC will present his work Ou Vers? at the biennale.

Africa in step with the world

The continent’s dancers have developed their own ways to speak about global issues.

Making the most of furniture: Lunetta Bartz in her design studio

Affordable objects of affection

Even first-time buyers can kit out their homes in fantastic designer items, thanks to Lunetta Bartz.

Subtle Agency: Thongo Tutsu Sangoma

Keeping it fresh

The Art Fair Fringe’s Claudia Schneider tells Matthew Krouse about her vision for showing new work in new spaces.

Bringing new ideas to the contemporary Dance Umbrella 2 festival.
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Moffies, movement and mutilation

As dancers warm up for the next Dance Umbrella, arts editor Matthew Krouse asks choreographers what the body in space says about South Africa today.

Abandoned Reading by Félix Vallotton is one of the works on show in the exhibition 20th Century Masters: The Human Figure.

Celebrating the European body

There has been little speculation about what changing depictions of the Western body in history may mean in Africa today.

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Our French connection

The M&G chats to France’s commissioner general Laurent Clavel, about the origin of the France-SA Season, its significance and plans for the future.

“A walk through Melville, Johannesburg on a Saturday afternoon is rife with social gatherings; music fills the air; the relief is almost palpable. The great after-the-plague party was about to begin — but has it, or will it?”

Melville fete not music to all ears

Seventh Avenue in Melville will host the first annual Fete de la Musique this weekend, but not all residents are welcoming it.

Have a seat: The sought-after DePadova range in the Generation Furniture store.

DePadova’s quiet beauty

A furniture brand brings sleek, Scandi-inspired design with an Italian twist to Jo’burg.