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A SHORT STORY THAT CANNOT END WELL
An elderly woman with abruptly cut grey hair, a vestigial of contemporary sensibility, prowls the gallery spreading a miasmatic dander that smells like self-righteous moth balls. With the same respect the young women gives mouldy bread, she applies an appeasing … Continue reading
Posted in South African Art, South African Lifestyle, Visual Arts
Tagged arrogance, Art Gallery, artist, Contemporary Art, curator, future shock, museum, old age, old people, Purgatory, short story, story
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BEWARE: CORPORATE PROPAGANDA IN THE GUISE OF PUBLIC SCULPTURE
Panga Management is really pleased that The Africa Centre, The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts and Cape Town Partnership will be hosting a half-day conference on developing a much-needed public art policy for Cape Town. ( not really … Continue reading
Posted in Design, South African Art, South African Lifestyle, Visual Arts
Tagged artist, Cape Town, Cape Town Partnership, cop 17, corporate art competitions, corporate fundamentalism, corporate sponsorship, KZN Botanical gardens, marketing teams, propoganda, public art, public sculpture policy, Sappi, The Africa Centre, the Gordon Institute
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VENT SPLEEN AND THEN LAUGH AT YOURSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE
Are you sure you’re an artist? Have you gone through the list of requirements and ticked all the boxes, do your pathologies check out? Do you wear monochrome colours on your happiest day and black for the rest of the … Continue reading
Posted in Visual Arts
Tagged artist, photographer, scarfs, sterotypes, the other, the Spaniard
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