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“COMPOST IS SOMETHING where you bring in things together; but it’s also something that you need to leave alone, somethings have to take their own time and place,” mused David Teh, sitting next to his cocurators Ute Meta Bauer and Amar Kanwar at the press briefing of the seventeenth Istanbul Biennial. Compost, Teh went on, “is what gives this year’s biennial its character.” Their talk on September 12 ushered collectives, critics, curators, and “contributors” to this edition (instead of artists) into the Zeytinburnu Medicinal Plants Garden, a first-time venue for the exhibition. ...

"The issue of cost is what the minister is reviewing, especially in the context of the contesting needs in our country: access to water, poverty and access to food".

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he gave the Arts and Culture Minister advice over the phone, telling Nathi Mthethwa to cancel the controversial flag project.

Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has done an about-turn on his department's controversial flag project.

Outrage at government's decision to erect a 100m flag at a cost of R22.5m is growing with the DA and Cosatu strongly opposed to the project.