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Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92 A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

I just saw this news about Athol Fugard. His influence on my perception of theatre was profound -- The Blood Knot, A Lesson From Aloes, The Road to Mecca and Master Harold especially. A playwright both political and profoundly humane. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/m...

Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Dissected Apartheid, Dies at 92 (Gift Article) In works that included “Blood Knot,” “Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and “The Island,” he exposed the realities of racial separatism in his homeland.

New: Playwright Athol Fugard has died at 92.

“There may be two or three living playwrights in the world who can write as well as Athol Fugard,” Frank Rich wrote, “but I’m not sure any of them has written a recent play that can match ‘Master Harold … and the Boys.’”

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Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92 A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island The South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose works included the play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and the novel Tsotsi,…

Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

Maria Sibylla Merian In 1679, the commentator Joachim von Sandrart described Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as a painter who had perfected the art of the miniature and of flower painting, a high and deserved honour. Pos...

Pioneering artist of flora and fauna Maria Sibylla Merian died #otd, 13 January, in 1717 (age 69 years), in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
She is the subject of a forthcoming monograph in our #IlluminatingWomenArtists series co-published with Getty Publications.
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William Kentridge
History on one Leg
A4 Arts Foundation
District Six, Cape Town
South-Africa
www.a4arts.org

#a4artsfoundation #williamkentridge
#capetown

Walkable Neighborhoods Help Adults Socialize, Increase Community Adults who live in walkable neighborhoods are more likely to socialize and have a stronger sense of community, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human...

“Loneliness and isolation can lead to: 29% increased risk of heart disease; 32% increased risk of stroke; 50% increased risk of developing dementia among older adults; and 60% increased risk of premature death.”

Surgeon General recommends designing cities to create more connections. #WalkableCities

Aboard a Floating French Clinic, Art Enables Healing On the Adamant documents how art allows patients to translate confounding experiences into imagery — what one might call the poetry of the everyday.

The documentary “On the Adamant” explores how art allows psychiatric patients to translate confounding experiences into imagery.

Die Bloekomboomprojek hosted another drawing nd movement workshop in Vermaaklikheid, South-Africa. The theme explored was the four elements that included earth, water, air and fire.

Ansel Adams: A Few Personal Notes We all breathe the same air and, in doing so, share in the zeitgeist of the age. On a microcosmic level this tends to promote conformist attitudes, a sort of group-think among humans with shared in…

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Vital Impacts Unveils 2024-2025 Environmental Photography Grant and Mentorship Recipients: Honoring Icons of Conservation Celebrating Transformative Voices in Environmental Storytelling Vital Impacts proudly announces the recipients of our 2024-2025 Environmental Photography Grants and Mentorships, recognizing the…

GRANT: Vital Impacts Unveils 2024-2025 Environmental Photography Grant and Mentorship Recipients: Honoring Icons of Conservation https://buff.ly/3VsTFQl #photojournalism #journalism #photography

Catriona Towriss
Time as method
Association of Visual Arts Gallery
Cape Town
www.ava.co.za

#capetown #catrionatowriss

Biennale Arte 2024 | Koyo Kouoh appointed Curator of the Biennale Arte 2026 Koyo Kouoh has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026.

KOYO KOUOH APPOINTED CURATOR OF THE BIENNALE ARTE 2026

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Eco-verdriet, rouwen om verdwenen soorten, helpt om verdere uitsterving te voorkomen Dode mensen herdenken we op kerkhoven of met monumenten. Maar hoe rouw je om alle verdwijnende planten, schimmels en dieren? Verdriet om wat we zelf vernielen. ‘Als je deze gevoelens wegduwt, geef je…

Dode mensen herdenken we op kerkhoven of met monumenten. Maar hoe rouw je om alle verdwijnende planten, schimmels en dieren? Verdriet om wat we zelf vernielen. ‘Als je deze gevoelens wegduwt, geef je het signaal dat het er niet toe doet.’

The Bloekomboomprojek hosted a collaborative drawing and movement project for a group of children of Skoolkop in Vermaaklikheid. We worked with an insect theme and a magical drawing with butterflies, dragonflies and bees was created.

#diebloekomboomprojek #communityartsproject #artforall

Do a route that starts with Tokara and Delaire, then Boschendal and lastly visit La Motte.

A Cow Called Buttercup | Culture File What does attending to a field of cattle have in common with making art? Agrarian artist Sarah Browne on the entangled worlds of humans and domesticated animals.

A Cow Called Buttercup | Culture File
What does attending to a field of cattle have in common with making art? Agrarian artist Sarah Browne on the entangled worlds of humans and domesticated animals.

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Breyten Breytenbach: a masterful poet, jailed for his politics, who reimagined South Africa The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.

‘om te onthou, is te verbeel … ek ontbeel jou. (To remember, is to imagine … I remagine you).
RIP Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024).

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Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths “I find it all very difficult,” the late German-born British artist said, and few painters have done as much to show the struggle of creative endeavor.

“Few modern artists do so much to persuade us that creative endeavor is a struggle.” Anthony Lane remembers Frank Auerbach, the British artist who died on November 11th, at the age of 93.

ek het die woorde vir jou gebring-
jy wat so half en half die waarde
van liefhê onderskryf-

(Uit: "hierdie woorde" vanuit die bundel vyf-en-veertig skemeraandsange)

Folding Kodak Camera
Charcoal and mixed media on archival paper.
The drawing is currently exhibited at Knysna Fine Art as part of their curated exhibition with the title INNER SIGHT.

#henkserfontein #knysnafineart

‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art She pours or even tosses paint on to a canvas – to see where it takes her. The results range from myths to massacres, bound heads to Satan. In a rare interview, the great artist reveals what drives her

‘Art may be a pact with the devil’: the great Marlene Dumas on her darkly provocative art

William Kentridge Sees the Universe in a Pot of Coffee The artist tells Hyperallergic about how the isolation of COVID-19 led to a streaming series set wholly within the bounds of his studio.

In the new streaming series “Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot,” William Kentridge argues gently with a double of himself, diving into art, aging, myth, and family memories.

Reisende

ek het myself sien reis
afgebeeld in die treinvenster
deur 'n herfslandskap van diep aarde
en swaar hemel-
hoe honger ek na binne en buite kyk

en ek het gewuif
voor dit te laat is
vir hom om my raak te sien

-Breyten Breytenbach
Uit: vyf-en-veertig skemeraandsange

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My pleasure. Have a beautiful day.

The photo was taken just outside Paris by Breyten's brother, the photographer Cloete Breytenbach. I love the intimacy of Yolande sleeping on his shoulder. The photo was on the cover of the book Rooiborsduif, which contains a selection of his love poems.

If you, like me, first heard of Breyten Breytenbach in the song I’ve Never Met A Nice South African, this is a really interesting narrative of his family dynamic.

Die Breytenbach Sentrum het verraad teenoor Breyten Breytenbach se progressiewe waardes gepleeg deur 'n platform vir die Wincklers te skep. Ja die Wincklers besit vryheid van spraak, maar die sentrum moes hul beroep op hul vryheid van assosiasie.

RIP Afrikaans poet and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024)

26 November 1975

Mag die bome groen bly
en die sterre wit,
en mag daar altyd mense wees
wat mekaar sonder skaamte
in die oë kan kyk-
want die lewe is 'n asem lank

#breytenbreytenbach