Written by Danielle Jaffit, New York (for Jozilife, August 2010) South Africa and all things South African have attained a level of global popularity in the past few months. Not since the end of Apartheid has it been this cool to be a South African in New York City. The New York cultural discourse is [...]

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November 10, David Krut and Gary Schneider on West 26th Street, New York. A chance siting of a DHL vehicle promoting South Africa was too good a Kodak moment to miss. Unfortunately, David did not have his camera and strangely enough, Gary Schneider the famous photographer, never walks around with his camera. Fortuitously, a man [...]

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by Andrzej Nowicki Thomas Nozkowski: Recent Work April 4, 2008 — May 3, 2008 Saturday 26th April 2008, New York – Kate and I visited two Chelsea galleries. Jack Shainman has a small exhibition by South African artist Anton Kannemeyer entitled The Haunt of Fears of works from Bitterkomix Issue 15, and elements from Alphabet [...]

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Last night in New York, Columbia University’s Center for African Educaton, and the African Studies Working Group presented a screening of the film A Light on a Hill: A Tour of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, which presents Justice Albie Sachs’ popular tour of the Court building, detailing its historical significance, architecture, and the [...]

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David Krut met the photographer Gary Schneider in 2000 while curating an exhibition of William Kentridge’s prints for New York City’s Gracie mansion. Since that time they have developed a close friendship. In 2002, David sensed a potential for photogravure printmaking in Gary’s alluring, atmospheric images and invited him to work in his New York [...]

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David Krut, Kate McCrickard and Sophia Carroll recently visited artist Stephen Antonakos in his New York studio, to plan the exhibition of his work coming up this fall at David Krut Projects, New York. Best known for his grand-scale neon sculptures, including numerous public installations throughout the United States and Europe, Antonakos also creates drawings [...]

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David Krut visited Gary Schneider and John Erdman in Brookhaven Hamlet on Sunday 20 April 2008. Gary has been preparing for a solo exhibition entitled FLESH at the Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego opening in early May. Amongst the work seen were 5 images which were commissioned for the New York Times Magazine in [...]

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The following poem appears in the new catalogue for the New York exhibition A Space in the Dark, pictured below. A Space in the Dark When I was eleven years old I moved with my parents to London, From a refugee camp in the north of England – where we had lived In huts made [...]

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David Krut Projects, New York is pleased to announce A Space in the Dark, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Andrzej Jackowski, to run from April 17 to May 30, 2008. The show will feature six oil paintings and six charcoal drawings, all completed this year. An opening reception will be held on [...]

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Solomon’s Trip to New York Solomon, the Co-ordinator of our Taxi Art Education Programme, went to New York City for two weeks in July to attend his brother’s wedding in Philadelphia and also to make new friendships that could result in working relationships in line with our TAEP endeavours. He had the opportunity to see [...]

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