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AVANT CAR GUARDPieter HugoDan Halter
As artists we all fall for the allure of the Big Time. However, be careful of a man calling himself Pietro Franesi purporting to be from the New York Biennale. He is doing the rounds in Cape Town. He promises shows and then screws you out of money. Read
I mean real big tears of frustration.At what point will the Art practitioners stand up and demand a Department that represents their concerns. What is nation building in this context?The following article is from the Times website. Thanks to Kirsty for the heads up.Minister slams 'porn' exhibition Minister refuses
Marc and Sarah, founders of Wooster Collective, which is pretty much the coolest blog in the world ever, will be in town tomorrow night and have invited all Cape Town artists and art lovers to join them for a drink at Waiting Room on the upper balcony at 21:30. [...
Sure it's kind of ugly, but it makes sense; the medium, the image, the form all create a piece of merchandise that does not seem to compromise the artist's ouevre...Read more over at MixtapeAlso, get the skinny on ghastly murderbook
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
Its Not a Tumor has a long an in-depth feature about Neil Goedhals.Check it out here
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