Internationally curated exhibitions about South Africa have, thus far in my experience, been
actualized as conservative survey shows attempting to represent a broad spectrum of artistic …

The Art of Liberating Voices Page 1 KRISTINE ROOME The Art of Liberating Voices
Contemporary South African Art Exhibited in New York A beautiful display of the grandeur of …

Over the past few years, South African contemporary art has appeared as the most
fascinating and stimulating artistic production of the continent. Since the ground-breaking …

This research project explores the role of art exhibitions in bringing the work of African
artists, in this case 'rural'South Africa artists, to the attention of the contemporary world …

The South African National Gallery recently underwent a voluntary exposure in the spirit of
national reconciliation. In a retrospective, spanning the decade from 1985 to 1995, the …

_T _ he exhibition" Tributaries," mounted at the Museum-Afrika in Johannesburg in 1985,
was the first in apar-theid South Africa to include black artists from its rural areas alongside …

This is a record of the hopes and aspirations, fears and concerns, of South Africans through
the eyes of the country's artists. The book consists of eleven essays by distinguished …

At the 1989 triennial symposium gath-ering of Africanists in Baltimore, efforts by panelist
Janet Stanley and the late Jean Kennedy to open up the debate on contemporary art from …

The use of found objects is evident in a range of contemporary artmaking practices. The use
of found objects can, however, no longer be understood as a rupture from tradition as they …

Walter Grasskamp (1996) 1 The general state of curatorial practices and research in
contemporary and modern African art has improved a great deal in the last two decades …