Archive: Issue No. 28, December 1999

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No.28 December 1999
* Last update until January 2000

Tom Cullberg
Feather Dome 1998
Plastic, wood, feathers, fans
Seen installed in Stockholm

Blackman (detail)
by Peter Eastman
Enamel on board
See review

Robert Hodgins was on the AVA branch of 'Artery'

See Reviews

Kendell Geers and Bili Bidjocka
Poetic Justice (1997)
Video Installation
Carnegie International
see Review

Johannes Segogela
The Ascension (1999)
Wood, paint, mixed media
Installation view (detail)

This week's updates:
REVIEWS: Karel Nel at the Standard Bank Gallery
LISTINGS: CAPE TOWN 'Project Conflux' at the AVA; Boogie Lights, again; Party in the Feather Dome; 'pm.inc' stages public art event'
JOHANNESBURG: 'Wrap the World' at the Rembrandt Gallery
PRETORIA: Tukkies students at the African Window
PREVIEWS: New Year shows
NEWS: 'Vlam' lights up the sky in District Six

At the close of this year, ArtThrob wishes all its readers very happy holidays. Thank you for your support during 1999, for your news, views, images and letters. Please keep them coming. Say goodbye to '99 by watching artists 'wrap the world' at the Rembrandt in Jo'burg, or 'looking like someone who cares' at the pm inc. art event in Cape Town. The New Year in Cape Town will open with a bang with a New York/South African all-woman show, 'One Night Stand' at the Joao Ferreira Fine Art, and a solo show from Dorothee Kreutzveldt at The Castle.

CAPE TOWN

Tom Cullberg's 'Feather Dome' will be seen at the Gay Millennium party

JOHANNESBURG

Watch the world being wrapped on December 31 at the Rembrandt Gallery

PRETORIA

Tukkies students show at the African Window

DURBAN

Artists' postcards on sale for Christmas at the DAG

NIEU BETHESDA

'Works for the new Linoleum' at the Ibis Gallery

21.12.99 Karel Nel at the Standard Bank Gallery

14.12.99 Peter Eastman

07.12.99 'Artery' by Paul Edmunds and Sue Williamson

07.12.99 'Babel by Kathryn Smith

Laurie Farrell on the Carnegie International and Zayd Minty on 'South Meets West'.

21.12.99 'Vlam' lights up the sky in District Six

14.12.99 Art books for Christmas

07.12.99 Strijdom van der Merwe's Boer War project

07.12.99 Kurgan installation at Mowbray Maternity

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