Valentine’s Day and ultimately #ZumaExitDay was an auspicious day to have been chosen for the Strauss & Co Preview of its first ever dedicated Contemporary Art Auction, due to take place on Saturday. The Preview was held at the new Cape Town Cruise Liner Terminal in the Cape Town Harbour. Continue reading →
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Hermanus FynArts 2016 a whale of a celebration of South African Arts!
For the fourth year Hermanus FynArts is showcasing and celebrating the best of South African Arts, from 10 – 19 June. The theme of the Festival this year is ‘French Connection’. Continue reading →
V&A Waterfront canvas for Cape Town Art & Design Week: Cape Town Art Fair, Guild International Design Fair!
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 →
Saronsberg wines: celebrating 10 years of consistency, fruit-driven elegance!
For the first time in the ten years of wine production, Saronsberg invited a group of wine writers to a tasting of its wines, followed by lunch at the Cape Grace Hotel. Saronsberg, with Rijks, is synonymous with Tulbagh.
Saronsberg was bought by Nick van Huyssteen in 2002, previously being the Twee Jonge Gezellen farms, which they renamed after the mountain in the area. A year later a large part of the then fruit 
farm was destroyed by a fire, making them start from scratch and planting vineyards on 51 hectare of the farm, making Nick’s dream of a wine farm come true, necessitating the building of a cellar. The day-time heat in Tulbagh was taken into consideration in the design of the cellar, we were told, to cool things down. Two years later they made the first wines.
It was the wedding of a niece three years ago that brought me to spend a Continue reading →