i exist is an upcoming exhibition to be held in Jo’burg’s Maboneng Precinct, which aims to give anyone and everyone a chance to exhibit their creative selves. The theme of the exhibition? SHOW JOBURG HOW AND WHY YOU EXIST. Check out the flyer after the jump to see where you can submit your works.
![The Kalashnikovv Gallery: A New Creative Space for SA’s Young Artists [Video]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Kalashnikovv-Gallery-201x201.jpg)
The Kalashnikovv Gallery is a brand new space in Braamfontein started up by Matthew Dean and MJ Turpin, providing room for artists to exhibit their work and collaborate on new projects. The Another-Day team swung by for the opening exhibition and had a quick chat with one of the gallery’s co-founders.
![‘GOLD’ Exposes Jo’burg’s Hustler Culture [Art]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Gold-Digger19-201x201.jpg)
by Jean-Michel Wickli
GOLD, aka “The City of Gold-Diggers”, is a collaborative exhibition by Adele Prins and the illustration team & artists Jana+Koos. It aims to explore Jo’burg, its multifaceted lifestyles and seemingly unstoppable drive for the hustle. Egoli isn’t just the shitty soapie on TV. It’s a city built on the gold boom from the late 1880’s, and the ideology of striving for gold and making a quick buck has never left those that live and hustle in the city.
![WAM joins the Braamfontein Renaissance [Pictures]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/WAM-7-201x201.jpg)
Words & Pictures by Jean-Michel Wickli
What was once dingy old University Corner, with the bottom floor occupied by a shady petrol station on the corner of Braamfontein’s Jorrisen Street and Jan Smuts, now plays home to WAM: The Wits Art Museum is a space worthy of comparisons to any gallery in the world, and is the first gallery solely dedicated to both contemporary and traditional African art.
![Brett Murray Makes Other Pictures Too [Pictures]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The-Party-vs-The-People-201x201.jpg)
The Goodman Gallery’s been getting a lot of attention for Cape Town artist Brett Murray’s rendering of President Jacob “Zumatello” Zuma with his shlong out. You may not know this because of the nature of the news cycle, but the gallery’s actually hosting an entire exhibition of Murray’s work, not all of which is paintings of heads of state and their heads of state.
Zapiro Goes Back To The Well, uh, Dick
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Check out Zapiro‘s latest dig at SA President Jacob Zuma for the Mail & Guardian published here today. In all honesty, I’m finding his attacks on Zuma repetitive and they long ago veered off the path of political commentary and into the realm of personal vendetta. The inclusion of the little poem is “cute” but also pretty lazy.
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