Vol.22 No.123

Friday 12 August 2005    

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Arts/Culture Review
Dwindling local craft on display at Museum
The Main Gallery at the National Museum this week looks like a well-decorated royal palace. A selected array of beautifully woven baskets and exquisitely decorated pots are strategically placed in the spacious exhibition hall. On one side of the multifaceted hall, the baskets are lined stylishly to form a big triangular décor, their shapes, sizes and designs are unique.

A scriptwriter par excellence
SELEBI-PHIKWE: Art, they say is the medium through which one can express his or her feelings about contemporary socio-political situations attendant in one’s social environment.

On with the tour
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005) is at the New Capitol Cinemas. Now here is a children’s fantasy film worth seeing for one reason. Can you guess? No, it is not the chocolate waterfall where the ingredients mix. No, it is not the ways in which the four horrible children who had each acquired a Golden Ticket get their comeuppance.

Eyes on Africa: A Fifty Year Commentary
Ronald Watts (2005) “Eyes on Africa: A Fifty Year Commentary”. York, England, The Ebor Press, 184 pages, paperback. 16 black and white plates and 20 colour photographs (including covers). No price, ISBN 1-85072-327-3. Reviewed by: SHERIDAN GRISWOLD

  

 
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