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3 February 2012
Design with the 99
While 99% – representative of the global population who have not versus the 1% who have in abundance – is mostly metaphorical, a journey through the changes and challenges we face in South Africa by way of statistics is an enlightening one. 25% of our national population (and 48.2% of our youth) are unemployed 17.8% [...]
14 December 2011
Question: Public art or public nuisance?
When it comes to art in public places – and questions of what it is, who it’s by, who it’s for and what it’s meant to do – there have been a few memorable incidents in Cape Town this year. The mistaken identity of an Artscape zebra, a Sea Point secret garden, and a hacked (then [...]
14 December 2011
Public art or public nuisance? What’s the public opinion?
When the graffiti bylaw was still up for debate, an online petition against it was drawn up and signed by the likes of Ricky Lee Gordon, Sydelle Willow Smith, Nadine Botha, Andreas Spath, Kyla Rose Smith, Alexandra Biess, Erefaan Pearce, Uno de Waal and Neil Steenkamp. Here are a few comments that stood out. Rosemary [...]
14 December 2011
Public eye on public art
When it comes to art in public places – and questions of what it is, who it’s by and what it is meant to do – there have been a few memorable incidents in Cape Town this year. Incident #1: But is it art? The first of these involved a zebra and a mistaken identity: [...]
14 December 2011
Kaapse Klopse: Filling the streets with sound
Kids play football in the narrow street, teenagers hang around in groups on the corner, and from a door of the brightly painted Marion Institute in Zonnebloem spill the sounds of men singing. It is a Sunday evening in October. The end of the year is still two months away and yet a core group [...]
