{"id":844,"date":"2005-10-18T12:19:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2005-10-18T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T10:22:34","slug":"the-most-famous-gay-couple-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/18\/the-most-famous-gay-couple-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"the most famous gay couple in south africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/cliveandrocco.jpg?w=850\" alt='Artist \/ Curator Clive van den Berg with musician Rocco de Villiers: the most famous gay couple in South Africa' \/><br \/>\n<small>Artist \/ Curator Clive van den Berg with musician Rocco de Villiers: the most famous gay couple in South Africa<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Tho perhaps Professor Jane Taylor was right in correcting me and saying that &#8216;notorious&#8217; is the better descriptor.<\/p>\n<p>The pic is from the closing of the amazing William Kentridge retrospective exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Museum &#8211; please, if you have not seen it yet, do yourself a favor and go &#8211; only one week left.  Great pics by Christo currently up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atjoburg.net\/?p=75\">@joburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist \/ Curator Clive van den Berg with musician Rocco de Villiers: the most famous gay couple in South Africa Tho perhaps Professor Jane Taylor was right in correcting me and saying that &#8216;notorious&#8217; is the better descriptor. The pic is from the closing of the amazing William Kentridge retrospective exhibition at the Johannesburg Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-dC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":859,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/24\/in-and-out-durban-and-the-blogosphere\/","url_meta":{"origin":844,"position":0},"title":"in and out, durban and the blogosphere","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Storm van Rensburg and Jay Pather - the second most famous gay couple in South Africa So, having a fantastic time in Durban. 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Can you believe I got up at about 5Am this morning and just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/jon-stewart-on-gay-rights\/","url_meta":{"origin":844,"position":2},"title":"jon stewart on gay rights","author":"nathaniel","date":"14 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Great video clip on current homo-events in the US, South Africa and England on Crooks and Liars (links directly to video clip - both Windows and QuickTime versions). 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