Last week Winemag announced its Wine Label Design Awards winners, the second year that it has hosted the event, which is sponsored by self-adhesive label supplier Rotolabel.
The Awards event was held at AVA Gallery in Church Street, not the easiest venue to get to in town at that time of the day. Continue reading →
The Cape Town Art & Design Week opened in the V&A Waterfront last night, consisting of two dominant events: Cape Town Art Fair 2015; and the Guild International Design Fair.
I was annoyed in not receiving any upfront media releases about the Cape Town Art Fair 2015, as I had received in the past two years when Lana was the Wired PR Account Director for Cape Town Art Fair. Even worse was that the PR poppie who ticked my name off the list could not give me any information about what to expect and where to find it. Some brochures about the Cape Town Art Fair were lying on the table, but she did not proactively give me anything. Astrid Stark from Wired PR was found, and she walked me through the start of the exhibition on the upstairs floor. The venue is not as perfect as the BMW Pavilion in which the Cape Town Art Fair was held last year, or The Lookout venue for 2013, each of them having had a beginning and an end, be it in circular walkways, or a maze. In The Avenue one has to make one’s way back to where one started, creating blockages when the venue is full. What was not explained was that more than half of the artworks are in The Marquee near Continue reading →