[10.05.09] Avant Car Guard at Whatiftheworld/Gallery
Katharine Jacobs looks at Avant Car Guard's 'Volume III' at Whatiftheworld and, like Morrisey a few decades ago, seems to think that the joke isn't funny anymore.

   [10.04.09] Nation State at Goodman Gallery Cape
Fabian Saptouw steps into Goodman Gallery Cape's 'Nation State' making a subtle yet crucial distinction between political work and the works on this show, which he says 'are really about a conversation with the political'.

STUDENT REVIEWS

   [10.05.09] 'The Tropics: Views from the Middle of the Globe' at Iziko South African National Gallery
Michaelis Honours student Rozanne Cotton isn't crazy about 'The Tropics' at Iziko SANG, finding that it reinforces rather than challenges key preconceptions of life in exotic climes.

   [10.05.09] 'Self/Not-self' at Brodie/Stevenson
Cara Snyman is far more sympathetic to the second iteration of 'Self/Not-self' at Brodie/Stevenson.

   [10.05.09] Short Cuts
This month Michael Smith trawls Johannesburg galleries in hopes of something fresh. There he has Peter Friedl explained to him by Lorna Ferguson wearing oversized orange spectacles, and witnesses Moshekwa Langa being ejected from the Goodman Gallery. And this was only a Thursday...

   [10.05.09] Classified information: Simeon Allen 'Imaging South Africa' at Bank Gallery and the Durban Art Gallery
Peter Machen turns in a round-up review of Siemon Allen's sprawling three shows 'Records', 'Stamps' and 'Newspapers', finding that Allen has carved a niche job description for himself in the productive gap between artist and collector.

   [10.05.09] The colour of sadness: Lynette Morris-Hale 'Targeted' at Artisan Gallery
Peter Machen looks at Lynette Morris-Hale's 'Targeted' at the Artisan Gallery, and while he is moved by the pathos of the works on show, is less impressed by the rhetoric that frames it.

   [25.04.09] 'Harbour: The Expression of Containment in Contemporary South African Art' at the KZNSA Gallery
New Durban Editor Peter Machen visits the KZNSA to review curator Brenton Maart's group show 'Harbour'.