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It’s on songs like I’m On Fire, an uptempo dance tune in which Angélique Kidjo evokes the spirit of Fela Kuti with the help of Nigerian highlife duo The Cavemen, that you appreciate the breadth and depth of Kidjo’s musical palette. The song comes roughly halfway through HOPE!!, a 16-track album that sees the Beninese…
On a weekday afternoon in Johannesburg, the doors of Goodman Gallery are open in the way they have been for decades. Inside, a new exhibition by Hank Willis Thomas fills the space. For Liza Essers, it is a familiar kind of milestone. “He’s actually the first artist that I took on when I took over…
There is one exhibition I have never quite managed to capture. Neither in photographs nor in words. It takes place annually in Stellenbosch, at the sprawling Spier Wine Farm. I made my way to the farm on Friday evening, just before sunset. The evening felt far too short though. Summer sunsets in Cape Town arrive…
Photography is doing more than documenting at this year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair. It’s listening. Through her curated Cabinet section, Record, curator Beata America approaches the camera not as a silent observer but as a sensory instrument capable of holding memory, vibration and emotional residue. For America, who is based in Cape Town and…
Some sounds or music moments force one into a type of submission on the heart and the consciousness understands. The moment you are sent a song or an album to review, you sort of want to listen to it on your feet, standing, waiting for it to literally rock your world, even when they promise…