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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Alphen Hotel transforms 5Rooms into blanko contemporary gallery restaurant!
On Thursday evening The Alphen hotel hosted hundreds of Constantia and Cape Town VIPs, to present its transformed blanko restaurant, previously 5Rooms, which was the name of the restaurant when the hotel was first taken over by the Kove Collection five years ago. 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 →
Tourism industry in Cape Town salutes Fabulous February!
February is the best month for the Tourism industry in Cape Town, mainly driven by the Mining Indaba, as well as Valentine’s Day, which falls on a Saturday this year.
The following events will boost the coffers of the Western Cape in the next three weeks:
* The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival runs from 3 – 8 February. The website reflects that the City of Cape Town is sponsoring the event, no doubt in providing the City Hall at no charge. This is how the venue is described: ‘Voted number 1 global destination by New York Times (that was in Continue reading →