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Time Out
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Culture Edit: Art, memory and reverence of soft vengeance
'People go to an exhibition expecting to be bored, to be quite candid, and they're delighted when it's not,' Albie Sachs tells me in a near-whisper, leaning in during the opening of Spring Is Rebellious, now on at Zeitz MOCAA. 'And I think this is a total surprise,' he adds with a glint of mischief. Listening to Sachs reflect on a turbulent period in Southern Africa's history, and his own life as an activist, is quite something. There's a radical optimism in it. Not the hollow kind peddled by revivalists, but something more complex: a joy hard-won, defiant, and elevating. The curatorial approach, led by Dr Phokeng Setai, resists the trap of monumentalising one man (though Sachs, by all accounts, deserves it). Instead, it becomes its own rebellion against the singular hero narrative. And yet Sachs, with his signature blend of humility, humour, and piercing intellect, still anchors the experience. His personal collection, along with that of the Constitution Collection (commissioned and curated under his watch), shapes the experience. His story, including surviving a car bomb planted by apartheid security forces that cost him an arm and the sight in one eye, is not presented as tragedy. It becomes, in his words, a testament to 'the intense joy of survival.' Yes, it's a historical exhibition and a biography - but also a deeply moving love letter to a life lived in full colour. A life of freedom fighting, legal vision, Constitutional Court judge and an unwavering belief in the transformative power of art. Curated by Setai and a team of young curators mentored by the late Koyo Kouoh - to whom the exhibition is dedicated - Spring Is Rebellious lands with remarkable subtlety. 'Africa's stories are often told through singular biographical lives. We wanted to let the art and the artists bring the complexity and layers to the narrative of this exhibition," Setai says. And they do. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out Cape Town (@ A Revolution of Feeling What emerges is not a dry litany of accolades, but an emotional architecture in what Sachs himself calls a 'big emotional palette.' 'It's very public and very private at the same time,' Sachs says. 'It's not a historical narrative. It's an emotional one.' Crucially, it never feels didactic. This is not protest art with a slogan, nor a catalogue of suffering. In his 1989 essay Preparing Ourselves for Freedom, written for an ANC cultural seminar in exile, Sachs wondered whether we had 'sufficient cultural imagination to grasp the rich texture of the free and united South Africa we have done so much to bring about.' That same question pulses through this exhibition. While Sachs' memories of Mozambique's revolution included children sculpting ephemeral art in sand under the guidance of artist Malangatana Ngwenya. It reminds that culture and creative expression were never just an accessory to struggle. It was survival itself. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zeitz MOCAA (@zeitzmocaa) The soft vengeance of refusing to become what you survived One of the most stirring elements of the exhibition is how it gives material form to Sachs's ideology of soft vengeance. Behind a velvet curtain and bathed in muted grey-blue, this quiet room in the exhibition offers a tender counterpoint to the fire of activism. Here, Sachs' voice fills the air, recounting the 1988 Maputo car bomb that nearly ended his life. But the story told isn't one of revenge. It's one of survival, healing, and what he later called soft vengeance: the quiet, radical act of choosing life, memory, and justice over hatred. Two artworks ground the space: a poignant wooden sculpture by Mozambican artist Naftal Langa, showing a couple grappling with the scars of war, and a stark photograph of Sachs in his London apartment, his amputated arm captured in mirror and shadow. It's a room of reckoning, where trauma acts as an uncomfortable truth - a wound, not hidden, but instead opening up toward something far greater. As Sachs says, justice is "refusing to become what you have survived." 'They tried to kill me, and I lost an arm,' he says with typical bluntness, 'but I lived. I got to help write our Constitution.' His vengeance is in living, not in bitterness or rage, but in beauty and joy. The show is both irreverent and serious at the same time. Archival protest posters sit beside odes to jazz and arson. Its storytelling spans exile, solitary confinement, and ultimately homecoming. And the title? Taken from a paper that sparked both debate and delight among his comrades - reminds us: Spring is rebellious, then and now. It honours not just Sachs, but the artists, activists, and everyday people whose creative resistance has shaped South Africa and the continent in unexpected, enduring ways. At 90, Sachs continues to write and inspire, offering as a living reminder that as our democracy matures, so too must our capacity to reimagine it. The revolution, he suggests, is not a moment, but a mindset needing constant renewal. 'If spring was rebellious then,' he says, 'autumn is rebellious now.'
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- New York Post
You can still rent a Hamptons home for summer 2025 — if you think outside the box
In spring, the poolside conversation at the Setai in Miami Beach turns to the Hamptons: 'Who is paying these prices?' someone asks. 'Where are they coming from?' 'Should we go to St. Tropez instead?' This season, the search for the perfect summer rental is leaving these masters of the universe at an unfamiliar loss. Brokers say their frustration is understandable. Each year, the same Hamptons houses come up for rent again and again. And each year they depreciate — their furnishings wear, along with their novelty. Yet demand and asking prices are going up, not down. And while new rentals do hit the market, the inventory of deluxe summer palaces that tick the vast checklists top renters demand remains miniscule. Advertisement 5 On the waterfront in Sag Harbor, the four-bedroom 54 Bay View Drive will set you back $360,000 from July through Labor Day. Courtesy of Compass Realty 5 One of the quirky Sag Harbor rental's four bedrooms. Courtesy of Compass Realty 'March was insane,' says Compass broker Yorgos Tsibiridis, who is currently listing a quirky-cool four-bedroom waterfront home at 54 Bay View Drive in Sag Harbor for $360,000 from July through Labor Day. 'And the money people are spending! It's the strongest rental season I have seen. I have a couple houses in Amagansett and honestly I could have rented them over and over, like 10 times.' Advertisement That's a sour pickle for the Setai set to swallow. They're happy plunking down $1 million for the season, but they expect quality in return: homes built within the last five years, fresh interiors, a beautiful yard, a large pool with a hot tub, proximity to the ocean or a village and a minimum of six or seven bedrooms. Good luck with that this season, says Tsibiridis, with as few as 30 to 50 new homes meeting that criteria on the market from East Hampton to Montauk, and many times that number of interested parties. 'The more expensive houses are the ones that are in most demand right now,' he says. So what gives? 'This year we had a flood of people from LA [due to the January wildfires]. They moved to New York and now they want a house in the Hamptons. I'm also noticing more people this year from Miami and Palm Beach.' 5 While 10 & 12 Fair Lea Road may be historic, is has a very modern pool to enjoy. Courtesy of Douglas Elliman Real Estate So what's a choosy renter to do? Try something new. Consider something with historic charm, like 10 & 12 Fair Lea Road in Southampton. It's one of the village's 19th-century originals, with a conspicuous octagonal turret reminiscent of a lighthouse. Advertisement This 13-bed classic is asking $1.35 million for Memorial to Labor Day with Erica Grossman of Douglas Elliman. Or if you've never strayed from the beach, explore the eight-bed estate at 10 Morgan Hill Way in Bridgehampton. 5 You can rent the eight-bedroom estate at 10 Morgan Hill Way in Bridgehampton — complete with a sprawling lawn and pool — for $950,000 for the entire season. Courtesy of Compass Realty 5 Be a good sport and hit the Bridgehampton property's tennis court. Courtesy of Compass Realty Advertisement Yes, it's an impatient six-minute drive to the sand, but what you get in return is 1.4 acres of lawn-pool-and-tennis, surrounded by hectares of protected farmland. It's asking $950,000 for the season with Compass' Breitenbach Advisory Team. Whichever high-impact home you choose, you won't have to sacrifice splendor.
Miami Herald
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Does Cardi B have a new Valentine? Rapper was just spotted with this baller in Miami
Is Offset out for good? Because the rapper's estranged wife, Cardi B, stepped out for a Valentine's Day dinner last Friday night with rumored flame Stefon Diggs. TMZ has paparazzi footage taken outside a fancy Miami hotel's valet early Saturday morning (it appears to be the Setai in South Beach, but we can't be sure). Diggs is in the driver's seat looking at his phone while Cardi, decked out in a glittery mini dress and red wig, is standing over the passenger's seat searching for something. Spies told the media outlet that their alleged date lasted until close to 2 a.m. So is this the start of something-something? These are two highly successful, consenting adults, so why not? Cardi is more or less single, after filing for divorce from Offset in July 2024 (she had also filed in 2020, but they briefly reunited). The performers have three kids together. As for the Houston Texans wide receiver, he has some time on his hands now after tearing his ACL. Plus, the NFL standout, 31, recently split with longtime girlfriend, actress Tae Heckard. The Grammy winner and baller were first linked earlier this month while partying at a NYC nightclub. Don't look for this (possible) couple to become official anytime soon. Cardi once told Elle that she doesn't like talking about her love life, thanks to trolls. 'I feel like people would rather start rumors because they want me to be heartbroken,' said the 'Bodak Yellow' singer. 'They want me to be hurt.'
