‘Proud racist’ artwork has tongues wagging
ORIGINAL ARTICLE CAN BE SEEN HERE> http://city-press.news24.com/News/Proud-racist-artwork-has-tongues-wagging-20150516 Johannesburg - Controversy is brewing around the selection of a work by a major South African artist, Willem Boshoff, for the country’s official exhibition at the Venice Biennale international art exhibition. Young South African artists reacted strongly last week to Racist in South Africa, which has a prominent place on the group show What Remains is Tomorrow
Old white men, a younger white woman and the state of black outrage
SEE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: http://www.news24.com/Columnists/Ferial-Haffajee/Old-white-men-a-younger-white-woman-and-the-state-of-black-outrage-20150515 Why is it that an old white man (Allister Sparks), a younger white woman (Zelda la Grange), a sentence and a set of tweets can make a country stand still? Today, we are likely to be enraged by another somewhat younger white man, the artist Willem Boshoff. It will be the third time this year. Or perhaps the gazillionth. It’s ho
