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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]