MURAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Philadelphia has had its share, historically, of cultural discrimination, racial tension and race riots. The 1960s and early 1970s were particularly turbulent times, with drug-related...
Author : Mariëlle Renssen
SAGRADA FAMILIA, BARCELONA
To get into this incredibly famous cathedral designed (although not finished by) Antoni Gaudí, a Catalan architect from Spain, you first have to book a...
NORVAL FOUNDATION ART MUSEUM
Finally we got to visit this art museum and sculpture garden next door to Steenberg Wine Estate in Cape Town’s Constantia /Tokai area. Featuring artists...
ADDO TURNS UP THE HEAT
We’re sitting on the raised deck of Nyathi’s Zulu beehive-inspired units in Addo Elephant National Park, gazing across a valley to immensely green wooded hills....
UPLIFTED BY ART
At the beginning of 2022 it is apt to celebrate the amazing, uplifting things ordinary South Africans are doing to ameliorate the dysfunctional (non) running...
‘TIS THE SEASON FOR CYCLING
Freddie Mercury of the band Queen once sang: “I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my bike. I want to ride my...
THERE’S BEAUTY IN A COAST OF SKELETONS
From the dense suburbia of Swakopmund, the road to the Skeleton Coast heads straight northward, closely tracking the Namibian coastline. It’s a bleak drive, the...
KGALAGADI, THE BALM OF NATURE
We needed to get away from everything, far far away where only the healing of Nature surrounds you. So into the wide open spaces we...
BRIDGES … A MEANS OF CONNECTING
Bridges … a connector for people, traffic, neighbourhoods. They are often architecturally challenging, visually striking, or enshrouded by urban legend. (Sometimes they combine all three.)...
GRAFFITI OR MURAL ART?
The word graffiti has its origins in both Greek and Italian. Graphein is Greek for “scratch”, “carve” or “write” while graffiato in Italian means “scratched”....