Celebrating and exploring architecture’s relationship with the diverse cultures and contemporary conditions of South Africa … A week of exhibitions, performances, films and multi-disciplinary conferences. Bringing architecture back to the public domain. Architecture ZA 2010 is set to become Africa’s premier urban culture festival as it brings together leading-edge thinkers and multi-disciplinary practitioners from [...]

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  This series of prints is part of a larger body of work (consisting of paintings and installations) on the idea and experience of ‘Shame’ as both a public phenomenon and a psychological condition. Shame is part of conflict, and current global conflicts have reinserted a sense of shame onto the public stage. But, however [...]

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PANDORA ART HOUSE PRESENTS: “TANTI PICCOLI ROBOT” Quirky Pretoria fine art project continues with innovative exhibition running from 3 September to 17 October 2010   ‘Charisma’ and ‘Pieza Principal’ by André Clements included in the ‘Tanti Picolli Robot’ exhibition Pretoria – 3 September 2010 sees the opening of an exhibition of works by a diverse [...]

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McSweeney’s is an award-winning American publishing house, known for its innovative design and use of illustration and its belief in the book as a desirable objects. Founded by Dave Eggers, the author of books including A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the novelisation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, McSweeney’s publishes books, [...]

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Author: The Editors of McSweeney, English, New Arrival, Hardcover, Jacket, 285x245mm, 266pp, ISBN: 9781854379504,
Price: (ZA)R 500

“The boundaries of Johannesburg are drifting away, sliding over pristine ridges and valleys, lodging in tenuous places, slipping again. At its edges, where the city fades momentarily into the veld, unimaginable new atmospheres evolve…” This half-made world besides the freeways, where Tuscan townhouses are jostled together with township matchboxes and shanties, is the setting for [...]

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Price: (ZA)R 140

This is a book about Johannesburg and one man’s place in it: a provocative, teasing, revealing, analytical and poetic text on the city and the life rooted in its concrete streets. A new high-water mark in Ivan Vladislavic’s writing, Portrait With Keys is a sprawling yet comprehensive portrait of his Joburg. His gaze roams freely [...]

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Author: Ivan Vladislavic, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 220x145mm, 212pp, ISBN: 9781415200209,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Two sought-after collections of short stories by Ival Vladislavic are brought together and made available again in this new volume. Vladislavic’s abilities as a master of understatement and brevity are brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), [...]

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Author: Ivan Vladislavic, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 220x145mm, 286pp, ISBN: 9781415201077,
Price: (ZA)R 190

Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself. In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel Francois Malan, South Africa’s first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to [...]

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Author: Rian Malan, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 200x130mm, 426pp, ISBN: 9780099749004,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between builds, with a slow crescendo, into a murder mystery that manages to touch on all of South Africa’s ills, without ever becoming heavy-handed or didactic. The characters Coovadia has created live with you, and lend you their gentle, ironic points of view, long after you have reached the last page [...]

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Author: Imraan Coovadia, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 267pp, 221x146mm, ISBN: 9781415200704,
Price: (ZA)R 215

Stephen Hobbs’ debut solo exhibition Fool’s Gold  opened last night at David Krut Projects. Below are images of the installation and the opening itself.    

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