Thembi Mutch

Articles By Thembi Mutch

10 Questions for Photographer Tanya Habjouqa Friday, 27 May 2016 Read more...	theartsdesk in the Shetlands: Seasick Vikings Sunday, 16 February 2014 Read more...
theartsdesk in Mozambique: Maputo Stories Sunday, 21 July 2013 Read more...	theartsdesk in Zanzibar: The Nightingale Still Sings Sunday, 10 March 2013 Read more...
theartsdesk in Johannesburg: Black Diamonds at the Wits Museum Saturday, 11 August 2012 Read more...	theartsdesk at the Busara Festival: Africa's long song of defiance Saturday, 14 April 2012 Read more...
theartsdesk in Zanzibar: The Sounds of Wisdom Sunday, 16 October 2011 Read more...

It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

The Young Vic has opened under a new...

I don’t really want to talk about this year. Genuinely. It’s been so horrific on the macro scale with deranged Fascism and the effects rampant and...

It’s not often we hear barely a single gunshot in a movie set amid Mexican drug cartels, but that may be the way it is for people who actually...

Judging by a Sunday Times interview last weekend, Daniel Craig now enjoys wearing brilliantly-coloured sweaters and extraordinary...

I live in Brixton, south London. To get to the tube, I have to cross Windrush Square. Since 2021, I go past the Cherry Groce memorial, which...

What is it about Humphrey Bogart? Why does he still spark interest, still feel relevant, so many decades after his death? It’s a complex question...

It's second time only quasi-lucky for The Devil Wears Prada, the stage musical adaptation of the much-loved Meryl Streep film from 2006...

I’ve known for some time that Ariel Sharratt & Matthias Kom’s Never Work is my Album of the Year. This lividly witty...

Lauded by Auden, detested by Edmund Wilson, the Tolkien sagas have divided many from childhood onwards: for kids, they’re not quite pulpy...