Images from
William Kentridge's video,
Felix in Exile,
on show at the
documenta X in Kassel

http://www.documenta.de

'Dear Madam, dear Sir', reads the documenta X press release, 'From 21 June till 28 September 1997, Kassel will once again be devoted to contemporary art. The Artistic Director of documenta X, Catherine David, will introduce to the public roughly 250 guests, amongst them artists and their works, theatre people and filmmakers, authors and architects, thinkers and musicians. For one hundred days, the visitors of the most important exhibition of contemporary art will have the opportunity to experience the most diverse expressions of contemporary creative work .'

Since the opening, documenta has been criticised in our press for being overly cold , conceptual and obscure, but check the website for texts, and a constant update of the various events. South Africans will be interested to know that director Catherine David's sidekick is Johannesburg's Thomas Mulcaire, whose organising skills were honed at the 1st Johannesburg Biennale. The only South African artist to be exhibiting is William Kentridge, who is showing two of his acclaimed videos. The History of the Main Complaint is being projected on to a door at the old station in Kassel, and in the Friderericianum, Felix in Exile fills one wall.

A New York art site which among other features, lists a large alphabetic directory of artists and their work.

The official website of the Africus Institute for Contemporary Art in Johannesburg. Lists contemporary and past events, and gives news of the forthcoming 2nd Johannesburg Biennale. Spot the spelling mistakes: in the AICA page on the Hitchhiker exhibition at the Generator Art Space, no fewer than six of the participating artists' names have been mis-spelled.

The homepage of the flagship of the commercial galleries in South Africa keeps visitors up to date with current offerings and also provides images and c.v.'s of the gallery artists.

The World's Women On-Line is an electronic art networking project created for the "United Nations' Fourth World Conference on Women" in Beijing. Mainly North American artists, but those South African women who made postcards for the 1990 show at the Soho 20 Gallery in New York: South African Mail: Messages from Inside may find their work included.