Art South Africa's fifth and sixth Bright Young Things for 2008, Andrzej Nowicki and Jonah Sack

Five senior South African artists were recently asked by an Italian curator to each propose a list of young artists for a show in Siena, Italy. Amy Halliday attended the resulting show and reports on some of the discussions it elicited

It's a familiar routine: crap show by crap artist in crap gallery serving crap wine. Robert Sloon pulls up his jeans and braves another dubious Wednesday night opening in Cape Town "Um," I say. I'm wearing my glasses so it passes off as something intelligent anyway. I'm chatting to the gallerist at an exhibition opening in the centre of town, Cape Town that is, and I'm riffing on the centres of art power moving to Woodstock – how art is the vanguard of an insipid gentrification, inner city living, that leaves the poor worse off. The gallerist starts looking around to see who else has arrived. Maybe she's also started contemplating the cheap rent out there....to read more see v6.4

On a cloudy Thursday evening in March, the Joburg Art Fair became an actuality. After months of relentless promotion, clinched in the last few weeks by a billboard campaign featuring the event's distinctive strips of horizontal colour, it was time for Foucault to make way for Fendi. Over the next three days, participating galleries, some foreign, most of them local, chalked up a whopping R25 million in sales.