#Art - 136 posts

27 Boxes is a retail center made from recycled shipping containers on 4th Avenue in Melville. There have been some great developments there lately - here are 12 …

Fiver created a series of linoprints called 2Summers in Motion, and those prints are the basis of the new design at the top of this blog.

August House is a building in the Joburg CBD with 50 artist studios and residences. I visited for the first time during their November Open Studios event.

The Melville Cat has inspired a work of art: a gray cat designed and created by Shepherd, a 7th-Street bead artist.

This weekend I attended the "Land That Never Forgets" exhibition at Rhodes Park in Kensington. I decided this park deserves its own #Gauteng52 post.

I generally dislike shopping. But I love buying arts and crafts, especially when I travel. Here are some of my favorite arts and crafts in Africa.

The Blue Door Print Studio is the newest tenant inside a mysterious pink house, formerly a church, on the southeast edge of Melville.

The Mpumalanga Traditional Art Market is coming to Joburg. Before the event, I traveled to Mpumalanga to meet the Ndebele artists coming to the market.

The Casspir Project is a giant armoured vehicle covered in more than a ton of colorful glass beads. The Casspir is on display at the 2017 Turbine Art Fair.

The Anton Smit Sculpture Park, about 90 minutes from Joburg, is a forest of giant sculptures surrounding a whimsical restaurant/café.

Joburg's downtown neighborhood of New Doornfontein is becoming a mecca for art and design lovers. I had a look around Ellis House and loved what I saw.

I bought some of my favorite things on a drive through Lesotho and the eastern Free State.These mohair tapestries and Basotho blankets make great gifts.