Michael Elion's Ray Ban sculpture has been defaced, 18 November 2014
Michael Elion’s controversial artwork, Perceiving Freedom, on Sea Point promenade in Cape Town was defaced overnight. Link to article: www.citypress.co.za/news/mandela-sunglasses-sculpture-defaced
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COSATU march in Cape Town
click to readCOSATU march in Cape Town
Approximately 10.000 people gathered in Keizersgracht Street on the 6th of August for a march to Parliament. This was done to protest against the rising electricity, fuel and food prices. The protesters expressed their lack of faith in the government's ability to fix the country's economic problems. Having failed to meet the peoples needs for […]
Photographer and Artist Omar Badsha is recognised with a National Order
click to readPhotographer and Artist Omar Badsha is recognised with a National Order
Mr. Badsha received a Ministerial Commendation from Minister Marais at the 2017/18 Cultural Affairs Awards, hosted by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport. Besides his work as a photographer and artist, Mr. Badsha founded the South African History Online (SAHO) website in 1999, which has become one of Africa’s largest history websites. The website is a […]
Reflecting on Goldblatt - from Gugs to Rhodes
click to readReflecting on Goldblatt - from Gugs to Rhodes
David Goldblatt’s photographs are uncanny in their capacity to highlight South African un-ease, suggests Neelika Jayawardane. Reflecting on a re-visitation of his early oeuvre, Jayawardane and Goldblatt discuss the photographs’ visual elaboration of the unspeakable: racial intimacy and fear, suppressed sexuality, the face of power, and – most taboo of all – a tension between […]