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No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers…
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22 Jul 21
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change
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Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf
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19 Jul 21
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15 Jul 21
We interview #DI Emerging Creative Alizwa Mnyatheli on her otherworldly art
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Self-taught artist Alizwa Mnyatheli’s work poetically explores various mediums.
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12 Jul 21
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
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Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
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12 Jul 21
Discover how #DI Emerging Creative Nhlakanipho Mashinini explores difficult subject matter in our exclusive interview with the young digital artist
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As a way to make sense of chaos, Nhlakanipho Mashinini layers different artistic techniques.
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12 Jul 21
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
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8 Jul 21
Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
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7 Jul 21
Kenyan photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s Parisian show stands out by blending in
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Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture.
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5 Jul 21
Storytelling informs #DI Emerging Creative Lithemba Nziweni’s photography
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#DI Exclusive: We chat to Lithemba Nziweni about his approach to his craft
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5 Jul 21
Spoon Archaeology examines plastic cutlery, hopefully, as a relic of the past
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Kai Linke and Peter Eckart put 20 years of plastic cutlery on museum display.
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28 Jun 21
Tadao Ando, NeM and Bouroullec Brothers transform La Bourse de Commerce
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La Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection bridges past and present.
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28 Jun 21
Hair all about it! We interview #DI Emerging Creative Nikiwe Dlova on her hair art
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Nikiwe Dlova brings together head and heart.
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28 Jun 21
We spoke to #DI Emerging Creative Lerato Lodi about spirituality and her art
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Rising artist Lerato Lodi combines traditional African spirituality and contemporary Western practices.
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28 Jun 21
#DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye Showcases his Sculpture alongside Painting by Adam Pendleton
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Pace Gallery’s dynamic two-person show explores identity and language.
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14 Jun 21
All the news from Biennale Architettura, NIROX, and more!
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7 Jun 21
Curating a New Future – the Louvre gets its First Female Leader in 228 Years
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Laurence des Cars, new director of the Louvre, plans to take it into a new era.
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7 Jun 21
MBOISA Nominee Chris Soal’s New Art Installation at NIROX Takes his Work to a New Scale
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Rising star Chris Soal’s large-scale sculptural works are the next step in his creative evolution.
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31 May 21
MBOISA-Nominee Igshaan Adams’ New Body of Work Maps the Histories of his Community
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Bridging past, present and future, Igshaan Adams weaves narratives into his Veld Wen show.
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17 May 21
Art Beyond Boundaries
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These Young Artists are Drawing on Myriad Tools to Make Magic. .
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13 May 21
A Symbiotic Work in Partnership with Biology, #DI Speaker Olafur Eliasson’s Life lets Nature Take its Course
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Showing at Fondation Beyeler, Olafur Eliasson’s new installation dissolves the boundaries between nature and art.
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13 May 21
Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art
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Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration.
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26 Apr 21
A Future Vision
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These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons.
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16 Apr 21
Arch for Arch
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Piyushi Kotecha, CEO of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation talks to Design Indaba founder, Ravi Naidoo on how and why the Arch for Arch was created.
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16 Apr 21
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