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ARTTHROB
MONTHLY ISSUE #53 JAN 2002
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Véronique Malherbe

Véronique Malherbe & Peter Badenhorst
The Free Radicals: Civil War Zone
Digital image

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Hentie van der Merwe

Hentie van der Merwe
Transvaal Horse Artillery (Colonial), Officer (1903-1913), South Africa
2001

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Sue Williamson

The Last Supper Revisited (1993)
Installation details at NMAFA, Washington

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Gail Neke

Gail Neke
Did You Destroy (detail)
Ammunition box, underwear, tacks

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STANDBY

THIS WEEK:

Personalities in prominent positions are more vulnerable than most to allegations of wrongdoing. Last week, a slanderous email surfaced in art centres across the world, sent to dozens of top media people and others in the art world. The person under attack is Okwui Enwezor, the Nigerian-born, New York-based director of the next Documenta and the second Johannesburg Biennale. Given that the most serious of the allegations took place four years ago, the email seems malevolently timed to damage Enwezor when he is at the pinnacle of his career - 'The Short Century' opens at PS1 in New York next month, and Documenta, the exhibition in Kassel, is around the corner. The email in its original form was unsigned - but attributed to South African Women against Abuse in the Arts, a group no one we know has ever heard of. Most people who have contacted Artthrob and its editors have been disgusted that, whatever the truth of the matter, this vicious, anonymous email has been clearly planned in its language, timing, and the long list of people to whom it was sent, to cause maximum damage to Enwezor. Hopefully, time will bring clarity and openness where now there are cover ups and rumours - we'll be investigating.
SELECTED LISTINGS

CAPE

Moshekwa Langa sets up studio at the National Gallery this week - last in the 'Fresh' series of young artist's residencies

There's a walkabout of the William Scarbrough exhibition at The | Premises. Denmark-based artist Doris Bloom shows a 'chronology in process' at Millennium II

There's Neena Sewsunker and Paul Sibisi at the BAT Centre, and Handspring Puppets in 'Episodes' at the Tatham in Pietermaritzburg

Hentie van der Merwe is included on 'Forms of Violence' in Cologne, while Kay Hassan and Kendell Geers take part in opening festivities at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

REVIEWS

You gotta love the queen of art tarts, says Hazel Friedman of Veronique Malherbe. Kathryn Smith gets bogged down in the theory of Gail Neke and Nadja Daehnke's show at the Goodman. Handspring Puppets usher Virginia MacKenny into a playground of the imagination
NEWS

Nic Dawes adds his highlights and lowlights to Artthrob's year in review - the top artists, exhibitions, newcomers, galleries and publications of 2001
SUE WILLIAMSON'S DIARY

If it's January it must be Washington - and the installation of a work about the demolition of District Six at the Smithsonian's National Museum for African Art

ART BIO

"In nature, the options are endless," says land artist Strijdom van der Merwe - one of the prime movers behind the first Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial
WEBSITE OF THE MONTH

The 'Homeport' website brings waterfront installation art to the landlocked masses. Plus new South African and international art sites
PROJECT OF THE MONTH

Vanishing Boy is the anti-hero of a non-existent graphic novel, the cartoon champion of the disappearing act and the alter-ego/nemesis of creator Joey HiFi
EXCHANGE

The NSA Gallery in Durban invites proposals for exhibitions. Last chance to vote for the Vita
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