Artist Proof Studio: Rethinking what a future South Africa could look like

Read More The Artist Proof Studio (APS) is a printmaking centre that offers holistic printmaking services to artists, and demystifies the printmaking process through interactive workshops and events.  Printmaking has a long and storied history in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, through work by political parties and artist collectives such as the Medu Ensemble, and the […]

Revisiting Planet Jabba

Read More In the process of putting this edition together, one thing has crystallised into an unassailable truth. It is that everybody has a Jabba moment — probably a whole series of them. In the original version of this article, farmer and rapper Mo’Molemi speaks of an occasion that illuminates Jabba’s generosity, a trait that […]

The Portfolio: HHP’s silver lining at Back To The City

Read More HHP’s set at Back To The City in 2016 was a hopeful moment. The previous year, the motswako rapper had admitted to three suicide attempts in an interview with Gareth Cliff on Cliff Central. “I just got out of rehab,” HHP told the crowd at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown at about 4pm […]

‘Of Blood, Sweat and Data’: Everyone goes to the mall

Read More Throughout its many iterations since 2008, Johannesburg’s leading art fair has maintained its prominence on the local contemporary art calendar. It was rebranded as FNB Art Joburg in 2019 under the leadership of entrepreneur Mandla Sibeko, and boasts a selection committee comprising the country’s most prominent galleries — whose collective share of the […]

Under the volcano: From Caruso to Neapolitan Power and Vesuwave to techno

Read More The arrival of house music redefined the culture of clubbing in Naples, but also of the communities formed by music. By 1991 the clubbing scene in its various forms was buzzing, although interest was principally centred on the new house music clubs. Despite the initial influence of British progressive house, the city synchronised […]

Al Gore: ‘Time to say goodbye to coal, oil and gas worldwide’

Post Content Former Vice President Al Gore called on the world to “say goodbye to coal, oil and gas” to fight climate change in a video released Friday ahead of the upcoming UN COP 26 global warming conference. Oil, gas and coal are the source of 79% of U.S. energy consumption, according to the latest […]

Crenshaw slams Biden for considering payments to migrants, compares treatment to military: ‘Let that sink in’

Post Content Rep. Dan Crenshaw slammed President Biden Thursday over a Wall Street Journal report that Biden is considering paying $450,000 to migrant families that were separated on the southern border during former President Trump’s administration, alluding that military families get worse government benefits than that. “Biden wants to pay illegal immigrants $450,000 for their […]