Miles Keylock

The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts presents the <em>Beautiful Project</em>, which calls into question our definitions of beauty.

What sets Cameron Platter’s work apart is his distinct aesthetic, non-conformist approach and wonderful humour.

Binyavanga ­Wainaina launches his memoir, <em>One Day I Will Write About This Place</em>, this weekend.

Join Datarock in celebrating the pervasive ­amorality of capitalism and the debt crisis when they headline Vans Off the Wall Music Night.

Despite their different styles and approaches to artmaking, Samson Mnisi and Sam Nhlengethwa share a similar career trajectory.

Kyle Shepherd guides the SA jazz songbook into beguiling new directions, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club play at the Synergy Live Festival.

The Freedom to Create prize event and concert could not come at a more relevant time.

Soweto band Ree-Burth rode to fame on the back of the "black rock" frenzy that followed the success of the Blk Jks.

David Goldblatt’s portrait photography is explored in a new retrospective, while photojournalists Justin Fox and Don Pinnock document their travels.

Tori Amos performs in the Mother City, while the Zula Fest celebrates diversity.

SA activist and artist Zanele Muholi approaches disturbing issues, while American artist Frohawk Two-Feathers has fun at the system’s expense.

Zahara, the axe-wielding Afro-soul singer-songwriter, and Goldfish, SA’s electro-jazzy house visionaries, feature this week.

Legitimised by Banksy, ­popularised by Puma, replaced by Twitter as the voice of protest on the street, urban art is no longer underground.

Kings of Leons are cheduled to cruise through hook-laden power ballads this week.

Peter Clarke’s retrospective shares the spotlight with work from a promising young talent.

It is a interdisciplinary, collaborative spirit that informs the line-up of Poetry Africa’s 2011 tour programme.

Koos Kombuis is back, in a more ‘spiritual’ guise.

Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art, Nandipha Mntambo, exhibits her award exhibition.

Now in its sixth season, the country’s original ecofriendly music fest continues its genre-surfing evolution.

Two new exhibitions deal with environmentalism’s ambiguous position in South Africa.

For the past ten years Siemon Allen has establish an autonomous language for encoding visual forms of knowledge and memory.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that urban contemporary pop had finally overdosed on its own booty babe banality.

<i>Ever Young</i>, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor’s exhibition, offers insight into the heydays of pan-Africanism and Black Consciousness.

Cape Town offers up intimate acoustic musings alongside smooth Afro-house.

Conrad Botes returns with <i>The Temptation to Exist</i>, which takes him into darker, more direct and hard-hitting territory.

Cape Town Hall hosts a triple bill of genre-busting artists at the City Hall Sessions this weekend.

A who’s who of Cape Town DJs, soundboys, producers and creative collectives come together this weekend.

Johannesburg-based painter Mary Wafer has gained critical acclaim for her architectural investigations of visibility and invisibility.