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Word View: Booing it, badly

15 April 2011
Mario Pissarra responds to Sharlene Khan's sequel to her infamous "Doing it for daddy" article.

Enhancing Visibility: Maurice Mbikayi

14 April 2011
Enhancing Visibility: Maurice Mbikayi
Mbikayi's CV and gallery now online with ASAI.

Word View: Indigenous Modernisms

28 March 2011
Anitra Nettleton responds to "Modernist Primitivism and Indigenous Modernisms" at the Savah/Ciha colloquium.

Word View: Why Post-Apartheid UCT Needs the Centre for African Studies

15 March 2011
Concerned CAS Students respond to the Faculty Forum at UCT

New publications

New Third Text

18 July 2011
New Third Text

Critical Interventions

11 July 2011
Critical Interventions
Critical Interventions number 7 investigates the production of value for African art by examining the global perception of African cultural patrimony in discourse as well as efforts by African museums to manage and preserve indigenous cultural heritage within the context of modern nation states. It features articles by Dunja Hersak, Frances Connelly, Christopher Slogar, Carola Lentz, Peter Probst, Sidney L. Kasfir, Sophie Mew, Okechukwu Nwafor Gemma Rodrigues, Jean Borgatti and Silvia Forni

Art Beyond Art

20 June 2011
Art Beyond Art
Rasheed Araeen's Art Beyond Art. Ecoaesthetics: A Manifesto for the 21st Century is available through Third Text Publications.

Beyond Cultural Diversity

19 May 2011
Beyond Cultural Diversity
Beyond cultral diversity: The case for creativity is compiled and edited by Richard Appignanesi. This Third Text Report investigates official arts and culture policy concerning diversity over the last thirty years or more.

The Mandela Decade

8 December 2010
The Mandela Decade
Ari Sitas' The Mandela Decade 1990-2000: Labour, Culture and Society in Post-Apartheid South Africa has been published by Unisa Press.

The Anatomy of a South African Genocide

8 December 2010
The Anatomy of a South African Genocide
Mohamed Adhikari's The Anatomy of a South African Genocide: The extermination of the Cape San peoples has been published by UCT Press.

Gerry Dixon's Last Parrot

16 November 2010
Gerry Dixon's Last Parrot
Gerry Dixon's autobiography, interspersed with portraits by the artist is available from jane@outcomespublishing.co.za (cell 083 469 3053, tel 044 3826476).
 
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