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Art
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FPB Exec Suggests Board Has A Duty To Suppress Criticism Of Political Leaders
30 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the dust settles between the ANC and the Goodman Gallery, all that’s left is for the Film and Publications Board to render their decision on the classification of our dear leader’s “umthondo” after a fraught hearing yesterday, but the how do you classify as offensive something that is no longer visibly offensive? And, what is the connection to “political criticism” in South Africa?
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First Images From Anti-Spear Protest At Goodman Gallery [PICS]
29 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
A protest march is currently underway and heading towards the Goodman Gallery, with people having been bussed in from as far as Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Check out all the action, and protest signs, after the jump.
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Goodman Gallery Guard In Court For Assault
28 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Remember Paul Molesiwa, the security guard we saw in the video of the two guys vandalising the Zuma penis painting? Louis Mabokela, one of the two vandals, laid a charge of assault against him after Molesiwa was shown on camera head-butting and flipping Mabokela to the floor. Molesiwa is expected in court today.
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Julius Malema Buys City Press, Writes Excellent Column
28 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
It’s not often Juju gets good press. In fact, we couldn’t really remember the last time it happened. But, we’re going to give him the benefit of the doubt that he wrote this all himself now that he is well into his BA degree in communications through Unisa. Yesterday, Malema touched on some very important notions in a column for the City Press; notions that Nelson Mandela raised as critical 18 years ago.
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ANC Doesn’t Want Anyone To Advertise With City Press
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The ANC is outraged at the South African National Editor’s Forum’s reaction to its call to boycott the City Press newspaper, following its publication of Brett Murray’s painting. It has now gone a step further, issuing a statement calling advertisers to no longer advertise in the paper.
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Artist Brett Murray Explains Why He Painted “The Spear”
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 53 Comments
So far we’ve heard from everyone regarding the controversial Jacob Zuma painting, “The Spear”, apart from the actual artist himself. In an affidavit to the police leading to his court case, Brett Murray explains why he created this work. Read it inside.
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First Images From Zuma Penis Court Case [PICS]
24 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Today the ANC is in court over the controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma and his penis. Some of his supporters have gathered outside the South Gauteng High Court, along with six of his children. The other 12 of his confirmed 18 kids were absent. See the first pics of all the excitement inside.
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Marvel Gears Up For Their First Gay Wedding
24 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marvel is having a pretty good year this year, given the kajillions their Avengers film is making, not to mention all the glorious tie-ins, but another important event is set to drop in the pages of Astonishing X-Men this June – the long-awaited marriage of mutant Northstar (aka Jean-Paul Beaubier) and his human fiancé, Kyle in what will be a first for the comics giant.
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Film And Publication Board Postpones Zuma Penis Meeting
23 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Film and Publication Board sent a team of five classifiers to view and classify Brett Murray’s “The Spear”. In other words, it stands a chance of receiving an age-restriction. The classifiers were supposed to meet this morning to discuss the size, length and visibility of Zuma’s penis (in the painting) in order to make an informed decision, but have now postponed it till next Tuesday.
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Awesome Time Lapse Of The Eihatsu Maru’s Holiday In Clifton [VIDEO]
22 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansViber, Rory Allen, spent four days last week documenting the Eihatsu Maru as it lay stranded on Clifton’s First Beach. He’s put together an amazing time lapse of events as they unfolded.
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Was Vandalised Zuma Painting A Fake? [VIDEO]
22 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
A number of commenters have expressed the opinion that the scene of the defacing of Brett Murray’s The Spear in the Goodman Gallery was a set up. Citing the inch-perfect framing of the camera, as well as the fact that the camera was trained on the painting at the exact moment of its vandalism, commenters […]
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WATCH: Video Of Men Vandalising Zuma Penis Painting (Works On Mobile)
22 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 13 Comments
Click ‘continue reading’ to watch the video (courtesy of eNews Channel).
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BREAKING: Paint Thrown Over “The Spear” At Goodman Gallery
22 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Mere minutes after the postponement of the court case against Brett Murray, this news emerged on Twitter. Brett Murray’s painting has been strewn with paint, covering the offending “area” and ruining the R136 000 artwork. Details are a little sketchy at the moment, but we do have the following information from Twitter: The two men […]
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ANC Finally Plays Race Card Over Zuma Painting
21 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I was wondering how long this was going to take. The ANC is currently in preperations for its court date at the Johannesburg High Court tomorrow, to get the painting of JZ and his junk taken down. After today’s NEC meeting, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe had some choice words for the media.
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Australian Building Firm Destroys Another Banksy [VIDEO]
18 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Residents and art lovers in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia are up in arms this week as a local work of street art by world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy was inadvertently destroyed by a building contractor installing plumbing into a wall of a café. Full story and video after the jump.
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Media Standing Firm Over Zuma’s “Spear”
18 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The now infamous Zuma painting, Brett Murray’s The Spear, has blown up all over the social networks today. The ANC has instituted legal action against the Goodman Gallery, who received a letter from the ruling party’s lawyers this morning. The Spear will stay up – and City Press has also refused removal of an image of the painting.
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Banksy’s Latest Piece Spotted In London
15 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Because nothing happens in Merrie England without Banksy offering some sort of comment on it, a new piece has been spotted near Poundland showing a child laborer at work sewing Union Jacks. Apparently this has something to do with Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee. Take a look! It’ll be a postcard soon.
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Swedish Performance Art Cake Sparks Outrage [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An art installation has caused outrage from the African community in Sweden. Supposedly highlighting the ordeal of female circumcision, the stunt involved a cake depicting a black African woman with minstrel-esque face. Everytime someone sliced a piece, the woman’s head screamed as if in pain.Video after the jump.
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Street Muralist Tricks SA Diamond Exporter Into Letting Him Deface Their Facade [PICS]
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jet-setting street muralist, ABOVE, recently visited our shores. While he was here he got the opportunity to express his concerns about an issue that lies very close to his heart, blood diamonds. How did he express himself? By defacing the façade of Johannesburg’s largest diamond exporter, with their consent. Click through for pics.
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SA Art Brings In Big Money At London Auction
30 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canvasses by lauded South African artists such as Irma Stern, William Kentridge, Gerard Sekoto and Francois Krige fetched over R3.5 million at an auction at Bonhams of London last week, highlighting a significant appreciation of interest in work by South African artists. We’ve got the full list of big sellers after the jump!
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Google Launches Incredible Nelson Mandela Digital Archive
28 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory has partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to launch what will arguably become the most extensive online archive of Nelson Mandela’s life. The free global access to photos, videos, letters and personal documents about his life and times will continue to expand as people across the world add their memorabilia to the archive.
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What Does This Traffic Light Signal Mean?
28 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Capetonians: on Janssens Road, in Tableview, near the bike shop, this traffic light is sporting a new “green” signal. Apparently, this isn’t the first traffic light that’s been sporting this kind of “green” signal either.
[Thanks, Jake R]
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Rare 19th Century Foundations Found In Cape Town
27 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Contract archaeologist, Katie Smuts, said on Friday that she estimated the foundations were constructed between 1830 and 1850, and that archaeologists were trying to determine their significance. Smuts jokingly compared that the styles revealed on the porcelain artefacts they found helped determine their age because it was similar to comparing the styles that hipsters wore on their clothes in the year 2012.
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Ninja: “God Made A Mistake With Me. I’m Actually Black, Trapped In A White Body.”
17 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Ninja says Americans have taken to the South African zef rappers like ducks to water. He has also said “God made a mistake with me,” and that he is “actually black, trapped in a white body.” Ninja understands that culture traverses colour, and many other things.
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The World’s Oldest Works Of Art Have Been Found
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists believe they have discovered the oldest works of art known to mankind. Although the six pieces are supposedly of seals, they’ve been described as somewhat of “an academic bombshell”. That’s because they’re 42 000 years old, and are the only known pieces created by Neanderthal man, who preceded homo sapiens, more commonly known as humans.
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Vanilla Ice Is A Hipster Now [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
White rap’s favourite son, Vanilla Ice, has dropped his bass for a ukulele and channelled his inner hipster. He’s moved to Echo Park, Los Angeles – an area notoriously populated by hipsters – to take up indie rock and the wearing of plaid shirts and thick-rimmed reading glasses. But has he?
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The World’s Most Famous Black And White Images…In Colour [PICS]
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway transforms famous vintage black and white pictures into high resolution colour versions. Examples include scenes from Pearl Harbour, a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, and the “The Burning Monk” used on the Rage Against the Machine album cover. See these, along with famous people such as Albert Einstein and Anne Frank, after the jump.
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Scientists Capture Video At The Speed Of Light
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done the unthinkable. They’ve captured video at the speed of light, or, one trillion frames per second.
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There’s A Banksy Art-Stealing Competition Going On
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
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Monkey’s Paintings Fetch Up To R3500 Each [PICS]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pockets Warhol is white-capped capuchin monkey. He has been given that name because he uses his tail, hands, feet, and of course, a brush, to daub canvases with his own unique artistic paintings. Pockets has become a money-spinning machine for bosses at at Story Book Farm, a primate sanctuary in Canada, with his paintings selling for as much as R3 500 each. See examples of his work after the jump.
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