SPLIT / NY.LON.JHB is an exhibition of prints and sculpture by Wilma Cruise, opening on the 2nd of August until the 1st of September. This body of work was created over a year and a half (2007-2008) during which Cruise, who lives in Johannesburg, spent time in New York and London.

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A magnificent new book, to be launched in October 2008, will celebrate and document the artworks integrated into and collected for the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The book will pay tribute to the extraordinary vision of the architects and judges of the Court who sought to bring together, in the most inspiring, innovative and [...]

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The David Krut Bookstore continues to source titles from leading publishers locally and internationally. We do this to provide the best quality books for our customers and to keep up with current trends. In particualr, we have expanded the range and number of design books in our stores.

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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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Spier Contemporary opened at the Johannesburg Art Gallery on Saturday 15 March. The show was housed in a series of shipping containers at the Spier wine estate in Stellenbosch but now fills the spacious rooms of the JAG. Those fortunate enough to have seen the show in Cape Town should not miss its Joburg [...]

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With a view to putting in place a small film unit at David Krut Publishing, we have brought on board Revel Fox, a filmmaker from Cape Town who has worked in film and television in South Africa and the UK for the last twenty-five years. He is perhaps best known to South Africans as the director of the award-winning film about a young trapeze artist, The Flyer. We have invited Revie to submit some of his thoughts on films, filmmaking and film watching and he has done so in the form of a film diary. This is the first installment, and we invite you to return some comments via our blog on films that have influenced you.

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Taxi Art education Programme (TAEP), in collaboration with Soyikwa Institute of African Theatre, hosted a one day arts festival in Diepkloof on Sunday 9 December.

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The Taxi Art Education Programme (TAEP) will be hosting a mini arts festival on Sunday 9 December at the Diepkloof Hall, Multi-Purpose Centre, Immink Drive from 10 am to 2pm. The event will be opened by Bazukile Diko and Solomon Mabengeza of TAEP. This festival will showcase the talents of the TAEP and will include [...]

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By Luiz DeBarros
Originally published July 20, 2006 on http://www.mambaonline.com/

I remember writer and journalist Adam Levin in the late nineties. We weren’t friends, but he was often out and about on the Joburg gay scene and I briefly worked with him on a documentary in 1996. Then he disappeared.

I heard gossip that he was sick with Aids. When I briefly spotted him at party a few years later, I couldn’t reconcile the frail looking man with the person I remembered. Soon after, I heard that he was at death’s door.

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In his book, Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron tells a ghastly story about Botswana . Knowing that up to a third of its population had HIV or AIDS, and that about 100 000 people were in urgent need of drugs, in 2001 Botswana’s government began to offer free anti-retroviral treatment to every citizen with AIDS. Yet, by late 2003, only 15 000 people had appeared at public health facilities for free medication. Why?

“Stigma,” is Cameron’s answer. “People are too scared — too ashamed — to come forward and claim what their government is now affording them: the right to stay alive.” Indeed, he says, “in some horrifically constrained sense, they are ‘choosing’ to die, rather than face the stigma of AIDS and find treatment”.

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