Aspasia Karras

1 day ago | wantedonline.co.za | Aspasia Karras

Koyo Kouoh sweeps into the dramatic volumed, art-filled lobby of the Silo Hotel in a scintillating green dress and a pair  of trainers. Her clothing choices mirror her formidably glamorous citizen-of-the-world élan. This is a smart person with both feet firmly on the ground, as demonstrated by her successful management of arguably one of  the most visible and important art institutions on the continent.

4 days ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

LAST WORD Sublime thousand year tune takes the hum from the humdrum 11 May 2025 - 00:00 My first job as a quasi-adult was executed in a highly enthusiastic fashion in a building in the middle of town. I operated from 111 Commissioner Street as a public policy research hack. I was full of the joys of youth — which, in retrospect, involved a great many certitudes, all of which were held with extreme conviction and which have unfailingly proven to be total bollocks. All of them. ..

4 days ago | timeslive.co.za | Aspasia Karras

HOT LUNCH The art of sprinkling fairy dust comes naturally to this cultural dynamo 11 May 2025 - 00:00 There is a delightful category of people in society who are born sprinklers of fairy dust...

6 days ago | wantedonline.co.za | Aspasia Karras

Ed’s NoteEvery time I make my way out of an airport, past the glaring uniformity of these in-between places that could be anywhere and nowhere in the world, and enter the rush of the newly formed outside, I blink with astonishment at the miracle of modern travel. It’s crazy wonderful and I don’t think I will ever tire of this miracle.

1 week ago | wantedonline.co.za | Aspasia Karras |Masi Losi

There is an unspoken injunction in the newsroom that we should not interview our own. But I beg your indulgence while I make an exception for Niren Tolsi. He is charming, erudite and, above all else, a true believer in the “truth to power” school of journalism. His 10-year slow journalism project “After Marikana” is the kind of inspiring work that wins him all the prizes and the fellowships. But I am sitting at Chopstix in Blairgowrie in the thick of a torrential highveld storm to talk cricket.