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Cape Times March 3, 2010  

An artist has accused Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana of being homophobic, after she stormed out in disgust over a "pornographic" art exhibition featuring black lesbian couples.

The Johannesburg exhibition in August last year had aimed to celebrate the role of black South African women.

Xingwana had been due to speak at the opening of the [...]
JASON WARNER
courtesy of www.mahala.co.za Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010by Alex Sudheim, images by Kevin Goss-Ross

Even though the tropical parasitic disease Elephantiasis is characterised by a catastrophic thickening of the skin, the local version – known as Elephantiasis Durbanitis – afflicts only members of the ruling party and is defined by a startling reversal of the usual symptoms in that [...]
Alex Sudheim
The following was first presented by Sean O'Toole at the Gipca Pre-Post-Per-Form Colloquium.

Thank you Sean for allowing ArtHeat to publish it.

In 1969, Sol Lewitt published his now famous tract, 'Sentences on Conceptual Art'. I often return to these sentences, because they encapsulate everything the critic is not.

Lewitt: "Conceptual artists are mystics rather than [...]
Sean O'Toole
Suzette Bell-Roberts
The Goodman Gallery

JHB

Auction/impressionist, modern, post-war and contemporary SA art

19 FEB - 17 MAY 2010, Graham's Fine Art Gallery
JHB

Hasan and Husain Essop

20 FEB - 1 APR 2010, Goodman Gallery
CPT
WC

San Art Exhibition

24 FEB - 31 MAR 2010, Kalk Bay Gallery
MP

Mmakgabo Sebidi and other SA artists

1 MAR - 31 MAY 2010, The Artist's Press
NYC

Kay Hassan

11 FEB - 13 MAR 2010, Jack Shainman Gallery

UNIVERSITY OF JHB ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG
JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG
JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG

Carpentry 101

EDITED BY CHRISTIAN NERF AND UG IMBERG (EDS)
MoCa

Penny Siopis

EDITED BY KATHRYN SMITH
Bell-Roberts Publishing, Goodman Gallery Editions
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