NIROX WORDS FEST | David Krut Bookstore
David Krut Bookstore is pleased to be participating in this year’s WORDS Festival hosted by Nirox Foundation which will be held on Sunday the 28th of May. The NIROX WORDS…
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE | The Head and The Load at the Johannesburg Theatre.
Written by Danijela Cook. ‘The head and the load are the troubles of the neck’, so goes the Ghanaian proverb that entitles the latest of William Kentridge’s theatrical works to…
BOOK LAUNCH | ‘The Architecture of Peter Rich: Conversations with Africa’ by Jonathan Noble.
Written by Danijela Cook Internationally renowned, Peter Rich’s career represents a lifelong attempt to find a contemporary, yet uniquely African mode of design. This book follows the chronology of his…
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BOOK LAUNCH | Four ways to lose your lover – Ashraf Jamal
Written by Danijela Cook A few weeks ago the Blue House hosted the launch, in the form of a discussion, of three new editions written by Ashraf Jamal. Jamal was…
Kids Paper Marbling workshop – 12th June 2021
Kids Paper Marbling workshop Paper marbling is the art of floating paint upon a bath of thickened water and drawn through with various tools to create forms and patterns. If…
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE COLLECTIBLE BOX SET
Why Should I Hesitate box set This beautiful collectible box set of William Kentridge’s Why Should I Hesitate retrospectives from Zeitz MOCAA and the Norval Foundation consists of the two-volume…
NEW ARRIVALS: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Waiting for the Sibyl is the latest artist book by William Kentridge. The text in this book is comprised of the libretto of the chamber opera WAITING for the SIBYL, commissioned by the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma and premiered in Rome in September 2019.
The HEAD & the LOAD gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece with the same title, which explores the role of AFRICA during WW1.
Teachers downloadable catalogues
Teachers! Here you will find downloadable PDF catalogues of our Visual Arts, Theatre/Drama, Future Managers and Taschen books, as well as our DVD/CD collection. We encourage you to either download…
Teacher Must-haves
Below, we’ve put together a selection of some of our bestsellers for teachers in the visual arts field. For a look at more publications in education, have a look at…
Women’s month reading list
For the month of August, Women’s Month, we are celebrating some of the impressive titles about or written by women we admire. Be it art feminist art movements, fine art…