A rare opportunity to visit this special place in the Cradle of Humankind Do you know what a folly is (apart from various current heads of state)? And what is a potager? This is your chance to find out. And at the same time you […]
Read More »Where is Liz? Every now and again I feel the need to sneak out of my office at Liz at Lancaster and hunker down with a book or some writing over a cup of coffee and even sometimes a light meal. Recently I met my son for a lunch get-together just to remind him that he […]
Read More »Kota Festival Soweto 16-17 September I love channel 702, although my listening is always very disjointed and haphazard as sadly I only listen to it when driving. I was fascinated the other day to hear Sidwell and Fikile being interviewed by Azania Mosaka about the Kota festival coming up in Soweto on the 16th […]
Read More »Another addition to Liz at Lancaster’s art collection The Turbine Art Fair turned out to be more expensive than just a cup of coffee and meal at the outdoor cafe. I couldn’t resist a small scale work from Hannelie Coetzee’s enigmatic African Migratory Locust series. The work comprises the trace of a real locust – […]
Read More »Vreni arrives at Park Station Last Saturday, there was great excitement for small boys who are Thomas the Train addicts, as well as all big boys who have a secret (and sometimes not so secret) fascination with steam trains. My grandsons and their parents […]
Read More »From Joburg CBD, to the birth of humankind to Sandton glass status symbols – they saw it all Liz at Lancaster was delighted to host a wonderful couple from San Francisco in the States recently. It was their first time to South Africa, in fact to Africa and they were up for everything. Although they […]
Read More »What used to be called the Rosebank Rooftop Market is now the Rosebank Sunday Market and it’s a fabulous place to browse, eat, drink and relax, and … if you’re like me, …. buy … on a Sunday morning. It is much better laid out than before – more spacious and with the different sections well […]
Read More »Great opportunity to make your own artwork with artist Bronwen Findlay and Artist Proof Studio at Wits Art Museum A fabulous fun opportunity to make your own screenprint at a workshop at Wits Art Museum this Saturday 12th August at 12pm. And of course surrounding you will be some 80 works by that Master of […]
Read More »The Casspir project – transformation from symbol of hate and fear to aesthetic object to be admired for its riot of colour, creativity and skill What is a Casspir? Did you know that Casspir is an anagram of the acronyms SAP (South African Police) and CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)? The Casspir was a […]
Read More »Refuge – the Essop brothers’ exhibition at the Goodman Gallery until 19/08 Showing at the Goodman Gallery until 19th August is a photographic and installation exhibition by the brothers Essop:Hasan and Husain. Entitled Refuge which is defined in a wall text as ‘the state of […]
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