This magnificent new book, launched in October 2008, celebrates and documents the artworks integrated into and collected for the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The book pays tribute to the extraordinary vision of the architects and judges of the Court who sought to bring together, in the most inspiring, innovative and dignified way possible, art [...]

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Author: Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, English, Art General .

Specifications: Softcover, 203pp, 280 x 280mm, Colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0958 497558 .

Price (ZA) R340.00

The title of Ryan Arenson’s first show at David Krut Projects is one instance of the serendipitous that seems to have enlivened the period Arenson has spent working closely with the printers at DKW. Failing to find a T in the box of wooden letters used with the letterpress, printer Jillian Ross and Arenson settled for Book of Ruth as the title for one of the prints

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Working with Jillian Ross and Mlungisi Khongisa (and the visiting New York printer Phil Sanders) at DKW, Ryan Arenson has produced a body of work that includes etchings, linocuts and monotypes for his upcoming November show at David Krut Projects. The prints are incredibly detailed and, in their reference to Dürer and Picasso, a feast [...]

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Diane Victor’s work is usually described as social commentary, but what critics often miss, perhaps because her strong imagery repels the squeamish or faint-hearted before they can get a proper look, is its humour, either in the form of biting satire or revealed in the artist’s wry self-deprecation. Since the seriousness of Victor’s work is [...]

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Mielie
By Bongiwe Nocando

Mielie is a small innovative company specialising in authentic handbags handmade from completely recycled materials. The brainchild of Adri Schutz, Mielie was officially started on Adri’s dining room table at her home in Cape Town in 2002. Currently situated at the historic Montebello Design Centre in Newlands (close to the David Krut Bookstore [...]

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We invite you to visit our booth at the Joburg Art Fair. David Krut Projects forms part of the multi-facetted DK ARTS, every element of which you will find incorporated into the personality of Booth 23. We are a project space linked to a professional print workshop (DKW), an art books publishing house (DKP) and [...]

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David Krut Publishing Forthcoming April 2008.
SKILL SET: Knowledge Resource and Educational Series is a new multi-volume series for specialised design disciplines. Using a practicable, outcomes-based approach, Skill Set will provide instruction in various fields of design, including graphic design, stage design, fashion design and industrial design.

Skill Set will feature locally relevant content, as well as commentary and work by leading local design professionals. The series is aimed at a broad audience that includes learners at secondary schools and tertiary institutions, as well as emerging and experienced professionals.

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David Krut Publishing (DKP) is pleased to be at Design Indaba EXPO for the first time. The company aims to promote, through the TAXI Art Books and other publications on the arts, design and architecture, the work of South African artists, writers on the arts, and graphic designers. DKP’s publications have been consistently well received [...]

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David Krut Publishing is proud to announce the publication of the thirteenth book and Educational Supplement in the TAXI Art Books series, TAXI-013 Diane Victor, by Elizabeth Rankin and Karen von Veh. The book will be launched at David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, on Saturday 8 March at 11 am.

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In April of 2007 I was finally, to my relief, seated with knees jammed into the backrest in front of me, at the BAM opera house in New York as the curtain rose on William Kentridge’s The Magic Flute. In its tour of Europe, the opera had changed slightly, absorbing some of the lessons of [...]

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