Issue No. 74, October 2003
Wits University opens its new interdisciplinary school; Brett Kebble Art Award; Taxi08: Steven Cohen; Reviews: David Goldblatt, Tracy Lindner Gander, Stephen Hobbs, Brett Kebble
Art Awards, Andrew Lamprecht, Mgcineni Pro Sobopha, and Vuleka art competition; Gallery Choice: Langa Magwa; Artbio: Sam Nhlengethwa
Issue No. 73, September 2003
Cape Town International Convention Centre sculpture controversy; Samson Mudzunga under scrutiny; Criticism in crisis; Reviews: 3rd International Impact Printmaking Conference, Willem Boshoff, 'Witness' at Warren Siebrits, and Hentie van der Merwe and Luan Nel at the Goodman; Gallery Choice: Willem Boshoff; Artbio: Peter Clarke
Issue No. 72, August 2003
3rd International Impact Printmaking Conference; Thando Mama wins the 2003 MTN New Contemporaries Award; DaimlerChrysler Arts Award nominees; News feature: Art Criticism in SA; Sandile Zulu and Jeremy Wafer, 'Console', Usha Seejarim, Sue Williamson at the Michaelis lunchtime lecture series, and the new Arabella Sheraton Grand Hotel reviewed; Gallery Choice: Colbert Mashile; Artbio: Colin Richards
Issue No. 71, July 2003
News feature: The Status of Black Contemporary Art; Lynne Lomofsky's
'Body of Evidence'; In Grahamstown, Tracey Rose's 'Ciao Bella', Berni
Searle's Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition, 'Homing in', and Joanne
Bloch, Langa Magwa and Mark Hipper at the National Arts Festival reviewed;
Jo'burg reviews Bongi Bhengu and David Koloane; Sue Williamson reviews
shows at the Venice Beinnale; Artbio: David Koloane
Issue No. 71, July 2003
News feature: The Status of Black Contemporary Art; Lynne Lomofsky's
'Body of Evidence'; In Grahamstown, Tracey Rose's 'Ciao Bella', Berni
Searle's Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition, 'Homing in', and Joanne
Bloch, Langa Magwa and Mark Hipper at the National Arts Festival reviewed;
Jo'burg reviews Bongi Bhengu and David Koloane; Sue Williamson reviews
shows at the Venice Beinnale; Artbio: David Koloane
Issue No. 70, June 2003
Guy Tillim takes over Cape Town; launch of the Brett Kebble Art Awards;
Alan Alborough, Sanell Aggenbach, Virginia MacKenny, James Webb, 'Male
Order', 'Lexicons and Labyrinths', and Noria Mabasa's Taxi art
monograph reviewed; Gallery Choice: Colbert Mashile; Artbio: Chris Ledochowski
Issue No. 69, May 2003
Who owns the city? Zayd Minty, Paul Edmunds & Sean O'Toole focus on
public art in the innercity; Kendell Geers at the Goodman; Sue Williamson's
first solo show in Europe; Michael Stevenson Contemporary opens in Cape
Town; 'Coexistence', Jane Alexander, 'ReCollection', and Elizabeth Gunter
reviewed; Artbio: Kim Lieberman
Issue No. 68, April 2003
Brett Murray and Jane Alexander at the SANG; Willie Bester at the AVA;
William Kentridge is the featured artist for Editions for ArtThrob;
Doreen Southwood wins the Sasol art prize at KKNK; Bruce Gordon, KKNK,
Kim Lieberman, Pieter Badenhorst, and Carol-anne Gainer reviewed; Artbio:
Wim Botha
Issue No. 67, March 2003
First National Bank withdraw from the Vita Art Prize; Jeff Koons lectures
at Michaelis; Bruce Gordon gets a tatoo; William Kentridge returns to
the Goodman Gallery; Warren Siebrits, L&B, David Krut's small print
gallery, and Zwelethu Mthethwa reviewed; VANSA launch in Natal and Western
Cape; Artbio: Angela Buckland
Issue No. 66, February 2003
Robert Hodgin's 'La Contessa Venemosa' is the second offering in the
Editions for ArtThrob; YDESIRE at the Castle of Good Hope; Zayd
Minty looks back on The Black Arts Collective; Robert Hodgins, Kevin
Brand, and William Kentridge's 'Confessions of Zeno' reviewed; Michelle
Matthews weighs up Broadcast Quality: The art of Big Brother II
and Sean O'Toole reviews Group Portrait; Trinity Session at Berlin's
Transmediale; Artbio: Diane Victor
Issue No. 65, January 2003
Artthrob interviews JAG director, Rochelle Keene; Paul Edmunds reviews
William Kentridge's retrospective; Lisa Schmidt reports on the Aids-focussed
'Africa Apart' in Berlin; Sue Williamson reviews Robert Hodgins, the
monograph of the master painter; Artbio: Berni Searle
Issue No. 64, December 2002
Jeremy Wafer retrospective in Durban; David Koloane's new Taxi Art book;
Berni Searle is the SBYO 2004; Artthrob's 2002 Year-end Summary; the
year's best art books and catalogues; Norman Catherine, Jane Alexander's
award-winning 'African Adventure' series, and Zwelethu Mthethwa's 'Coloured/Colored'
reviewed; Artbio: David Goldblatt
Issue No. 63, November 2002
William Kentridge returns home; SANAVA charity exhibition; a look at
Turner Prize winner Steve McQueen's 'Western Deep'; MountX at the SANG;
Kendell Geers interview and the on-going debate between Geers and the
JAG; Jeremy Wafer, Matthew Hindley, 'Comics Brew', Photofesta Maputo,
and Taxi monograph on David Koloane reviewed; Artbio: Malcolm Payne
Issue No. 62, October 2002
Staff changes at Artthrob; Bittercomix and Claudette Schreuders at the
AVA; Fritha Langerman and Katherine Bull win the Cape Town Public Sculpture
Competition; Kendell Geers calls for the resignation of JAG director;
Giulio Tambellini and Warren Siebrits' new Rosebank gallery reviewed;
Artbio: Thembinkosi Goniwe
Issue No. 61, September 2002
Penny Siopis at the Goodman & the Posel Galleries; Doreen Southwood
at the Bell-Roberts Gallery; Editor's Documenta Diary; ACT Award 2002
nominees announced; 'Outpost' at the NSA Gallery and Documenta 11 reviewed;
Artbio: Doreen Southwood
Issue No. 60, August 2002
Jhb gearing up for WSSD; The 3rd Cape Town Public Sculpture Competition;
Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre; Flash Art story highlights South Africa;
Interview: Aryan Kaganof; Martienssen Prize show, Tracy Lindner Gander
and Documenta Reviewed; Artbio: Marco Cianfanelli
Issue No. 59, July 2002
Alan Alborough scoops the FNB Vita Art Prize; Marco Cianfanelli wins
the Absa L'Atelier; 'Pulse' project 'Silence/Violence' in Durban & Nieu-Bethesda;
Gtown National Arts Festival wearing thin; 'Grime' & 'Mari Mira' reviewed;
Artbio: Santu Mofokeng
Issue No. 58, June 2002
First reports from DocumentaII; Sue Williamson at the Dakar Biennale
2002; David Goldblatt, Fritha Langerman, After Apartheid: Documentary
Photographers, Peter Friedl and Soccer is Power! reviewed; Artbio: Kendell
Geers
Issue No. 57, May 2002
SA artists make DocumentaII; Dakar Biennale 2002; Sue Williamson, Handspring
Puppet Company, and Antoinette Murdoch and Doreen Southwood reviewed;
Artbio: Leora Farber
Issue No. 56, April 2002
BIG Torino 2002; James Webb's 'Phonosynthesizer'; Students review Month
of Photography highlights: Lien Botha, Julia Tiffin, Angela Buckland
and Sarel Eloff; Paul Edmunds and Kathryn Smith get to grips with KKNK;
Artbio: Bronwen Findlay
Issue No. 55, March 2002
Local industry Feedback rages this month; The Second Month of Photography
opens in Cape Town; Klein Karoo National Arts Festival; FNB Vita Art
Prize 2002 nominees announced; Design Indaba, Dave Southwood, Apartheid
Museum, and Video art at Michaelis reviewed; Artbio: Dave Southwood
Issue No. 54, Februray 2002
'The Short Century' opens in New York; World Wide Video Festival at
Michaelis; National Arts Council CEO outlines the way forward; Dorothee
Kreutzfeldt, Arlene Amaler-Raviv and Dale Yudelman, 'Surviving the Lens',Egon
Tania, and Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial reviewed; Artbio: Hylton
Nel
Issue No. 53, January 2002
Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial; Moshekwa Langa resident at the SANG;
Kathryn Smith looks at the Joubert Park Project; Veronique Malherbe,
Gail Neke and Nadja Daehnke, and Handspring Puppets reviewed; Artbio:
Strijdom van der Merwe
Issue No. 52, December 2001
Robin Rhode makes Artist of the Year in Artthrob's Top 10; Homeport
at the V&A Waterfront; Walter Oltmann's SBYA exhibition in Durban; Tracy
Murinik spots fresh talent among the Michaelis fourth-years; Brett Murray
and Post reviewed; Artbio: Conrad Botes
Issue No. 51, November 2001
Joubert Park Public Art Project; Standard Bank Young Artist 2002; DaimlerChrysler
award for sculpture; Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennial launch; Willie
Bester, Paul Edmunds, Minnette Vári and Mara Verna reviewed;
Artbio: Isaac Nkosinathi Khanyile
Issue No. 50, October 2001
Joubert Park Public Art Project; Walter Oltmann's SBYA show in PMB;
Sam Nhlengethwa reviewed; Plus Aardklop and the World Wide Video Festival;
Artbio: Pitso Chinzima
Issue No. 49, September 2001
Paul du Toit sells out at the Bell-Roberts Art Gallery; Ruth Prowse
School of Art Exhibition & Auction; Jo'burg Pride 2001; 'See Eazi' art
fair at the NSA; 'The | Premises' opens in Jo'burg; Artbio: Mandla Mabila
Issue No. 48, August 2001
The FNB Vita Art Prize 2001; first MTN New Contemporaries award; Sasol
New Signatures; Bridget Baker; Bonita Alice; Taxi-003 Jeremy Wafer;
SA artists for Sao Paulo and World Wide Video Fest; Artbio: Willem Boshoff
Issue No. 47, July 2001
Grahamstown Festival reviewed; Venice Biennale reviewed; Stefanus Rademeyer
wins the Absa Atelier Award; HIV/AIDS Billboards Portfolio project wins
a Medal d'Excellence; Sue Williamson's New York diary; Artbio: Walter
Oltmann
Issue No. 46, June 2001
Book Review special; 'Fokofo' at the DAG; 'Inferno & Paradiso' reviewed;
David Goldblatt scoops an honorary doctorate; 'The Short Century' in
Berlin; Sue Williamson's New York and Spain Diaries; Artbio: Siemon
Allen
Issue No. 45, May 2001
Robert Hodgins at João Ferreira; Dorothee Kreutzfeldt at the
SANG; Katherine Bull & Fritha Langerman at the University of Stellenbosh
Art Gallery; TaXi-002 - Samson Mudzunga out now!; Yinka Shonibare interviewed
in Johannesburg; Basa awards announced; Kathryn Smith's Maputo Diary;
Artbio: Usha Seejarim
Issue No. 44, April 2001
FNB Vita Award finalists announced; Oudtshoorn and the Visual Arts;
'Inferno and Paradise' at the SANG; Jürgen Schadeberg at Axis Gallery
in New York; Artbio: Thomas Mulcaire
Issue No. 43, March 2001
Alan Alborough at the SANG; Absa Atelier finalist show; South Africans
in Venice; Taxi 001 on a shelf near you; Public Eye turns two; Artbio:
Tracey Rose
Issue No. 42, February 2001
Artthrob going into print; Juncture at the Granary; Justine Mahoney
at Bell-Roberts Contemporary; Obituary for Johannesburg's Market Gallery;
Part II of Kathryn Smith's overview of the Johannesburg art scene -
Galleries in jeopardy; Artbio: Greg Streak
Issue No. 41, January 2001
Doreen Southwood at Bell-Roberts Contemporary; Hoerikwaggo - Images
of Table Mountain at the SANG; HSL at the Castle; Gambling with Art
- Kathryn Smith examines some of the financial factors governing the
struggle of artists and galleries to survive; ArtThrob's artists of
2000; Artbio: Brad Hammond
Issue No. 40, December 2000
Holland South Africa Line; Michaelis student show; Joubert Park Project;
Koos Malgas dies; Save the Jhb Biennale; Books for Christmas; Artbio:
Peet Pienaar
Issue No. 39, November 2000
!Xoe... Off Site at Brendon Bell-roberts; Steve McQueen in Cape Town;
Marc Chagall in both Johannesburg and Cape Town; Brett Murray and Wayne
Barker inaugurate Brendon-Bell Roberts' new gallery in London; Artbio:
Jeremy Wafer
Issue No. 38, October 2000
uBudoda: Images of Masculinity at the AVA; Peet Pienaar at Brendon Bell-roberts;
Clive van den Berg at the Goodman; Artbio: Kay Hassan
Issue No. 37, September 2000
Cape Town OneCity Festival; 'Trapped Reflections' and 'Outposts' in
Gauteng; Paris Conference on the State of Visual Arts in Africa and
the Diaspora; Artbio: Claudette Schreuders
Issue No. 36, August 2000
Madame Haenggi & Constance Stuart Larrabee remembered; The big4 at Brendon
Bell-Roberts; Fifth Biennale of Contemporary Art in Lyons; Kathryn Smith
Reviews the Vitas show; Artbio: Terry Kurgan
Issue No. 35, July 2000
Terry Kurgan is this year's Vita star; Brad Hammond wins Absa Atelier
Award; !Xoe comes again to Nieu Bethesda; Channeltoo goes digital; Artbio:
Alan Alborough
Issue No. 34, June 2000
Dak/Art 2000 reviewed; New committee formed to promote Africa in Venice;
Young artists' shows in Cape Town: 'Bitterkomix' and 'Emergency'; Artbio:
Robert Hodgins
Issue No. 33, May 2000
Dak/Art 2000 Diary; Brett Murray's public sculpture unveiled; SoftServe
II; Robert Hodgins at the Goodman: Artbio: Bernie Searle
Issue No. 32, April 2000
Karoo Art Festival Reportback; Rotterdam Foto Biennale; Special Book
Review Section: Artbio: Andries Botha
Issue No. 31, March 2000
South African Art in the Nineties: Conclusion; Vita 2000 nominees, Exchange:
Overseas opportunities for artists; Artbio: Hentie van der Merwe.
Issue No. 30, February 2000
Final Issue of South African Art in the Nineties; Arlene Amaler-Raviv
& Dale Yudelman show at the AVA; pminc. wraps; 'Emergence' curators
interviewed; Artbio: Senzeni Marasela
Issue No. 29, January 2000
Review of South African Art in the Nineties; One Night Stand at Joao
Ferriera; Artbio: Dorothee Kreutzfeldt
Issue No. 28, December 1999
Artery reviewed; Report back on South meets West in Ghana; Carnegie
International reviewed; Artbio: Linda Givon
Issue No. 27, November 1999
Softserve at the SANG; William Kentridge wins Carnegie International;
Alan Alborough wins Standard Bank Young Artist Award; Artbio: Robin
Rhode.
Issue No. 26, October 1999
Biennale Questionaire; Kentridge opens at the Goodman; Artbio: Karel
Nel.
Issue No. 25, September 1999
Special Biennale discussion; Cape Town Month of Photography; 'Liberated
Voices' opens in New York; Artbio: Penny Siopis.
Issue No. 24, August 1999
Kay Hassan wins new Daimler-Chrysler Art Award; Smithsonian show reviewed;
Artbio: Wille Bester
Issue No. 23, July 1999
Grahamstown Festival roundup; report on the Venice Biennale; Jane Alexander
in Artbio
Issue No. 22, June 1999
Veronique Malherbe; '[Rewind] Fast Forward.ZA' in Holland; David Koloane;
Margaret Vorster
Issue No. 21, May 1999
William Kentridge in Artbio; Ezrom Legae remembered; 'New Worlds' in
London; Grey Areas reviewed
Issue No. 20, April 1999
Video fest 'Channel'; Klein Karoo festival; Zwelethu Mthethwa in Artbio;
'Trafique' in Belgium
Issue No. 19, March 1999
Jo Ractliffe in Artbio; video by Konrad Welz; Vita nominees; Cape Town
Art Night; Klein Karoo festival
Issue No. 18, February 1999
Moshekwa Langa in Artbio; Lisa Brice catalogue launch; Cairo Biennale;
Bonn show; 'Dreams and Clouds' in Gothenburg
Issue No. 17, January 1999
'eye Africa'; artbio: Lisa Brice; New series: The Professional Artist:
Introduction
Issue No. 16, December 1998
African photography; artbio: Stephen Hobbs; Willie Saayman screensavers;
Vita nominations online
Issue No. 15, November 1998
Okwui Enwezor named Documenta director; artbio: Clive van den Berg;
Minnette Vári video; Stockholm Journal
Issue No. 14, October 1998
Candice Breitz; São Paulo Bienal; 2nd Johannesburg Biennale,
one year on; 'Dreams and Clouds'
Issue No. 13, September 1998
Funding crisis at the SANG; Brett Murray in artbio; São Paulo
Bienal
Issue No. 12, August 1998
The FNB Vita awards; artbio: Randolph Hartzenberg; Robert Weinek on
video art in South Africa; Abandon Your Culture project
Issue No. 11, July 1998
Grahamstown Festival; artbio: Mustafa Maluka; Happy birthday Madiba;
!Xoe site-specific project
Issue No. 10, June 1998
Dakar Biennale; artbio: Kevin Brand; Mark Coetzee on censorship; Tracy
Murinik on 'Memorias Intimas Marcas'
Issue No. 9, May 1998
Steven Cohen; 'Memorias Intimas Marcas'; 'Transpositions'; Brian Eno
Issue No. 8, April 1998
Idasa Gallery opens; Houston Fotofest; artbio: Tracy Payne
Issue No. 7, February/March 1998
Claudette Schreuders; Arlene Amaler-Raviv; artbio: Minnette Vári
Issue No. 6, January 1998
Isolde Krams; 'Cyst'; Passages from India; Biennale: 'Life's Little
Necessities'
Issue No. 5, December 1997
'Taking Stock'; Biennale: 'Important and Exportant',' Graft'
Issue No. 4, November 1997
Biennale: 'Alternating Currents', 'Transversions', 'Hong Kong, Etc';
Vita Awards Show.
Issue No. 3, October 1997
District Six Sculpture Festival; 'Thirty Minutes'; Biennale Preview,
Brett Murray
Issue No. 2, September 1997
Focus on art books; 'Memorias, Intimas, Marcas'; Peet Pienaar; Joachim
Schõnfeldt
Issue No. 1, August 1997
Bridget Baker, Andrew Putter
