Archive: Issue No. 51, November 2001

Artthrob is South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world.

Listings - selected exhibition listings divided into Cape, Gauteng, KZN and International.
Reviews - selected shows from around the country and the world.
News - events, issues and art world happenings, updated weekly.
Artbio - a monthly feature on an artist currently in the public eye.
Websites - a website of the month and links to art sites around the world.
Project - a web-based art project is featured each month.
Exchange - a page for the free dissemination of information that will interest artists.
Feedback - readers' comments and queries.
Archive - four years of the country's art history as reflected in Artthrob.

Founding editor: Sue Williamson
Editor: Sophie Perryer
Gauteng contributing editor: Kathryn Smith
KwaZulu-Natal contributing editor: Virginia MacKenny
Feedback and Exchange: Paul Edmunds
Site design and production: FUR

Emma Bedford, Rory Bester, Kendall Buster, Nic Dawes, Antoinette du Plessis, Laurie Anne Farrell, Joy Garnett, Charles Giuliano, Brad Hammond, Mark Hipper, Stephen Hobbs, Terry Kurgan, Michelle Matthews, Tracy Murinik, Sean O'Toole, Mario Pissarra, Lloyd Pollack, Hayden Proud, Gerhard Schoeman, Dave Southwood, Greg Streak

Artthrob received over 65 000 hits in August 2001, its busiest month to date. Readership is divided almost equally between South Africa and the rest of the world.

Founded as a one-person site by Sue Williamson in August 1997, Artthrob has since expanded to many times its original size.

Artthrob has twice been a finalist in the Arts & Culture Trust Awards, and in 1999 was nominated for the United Nations prize for best cultural website. In 2000 Berlin curator Pat Binder selected the site as an art piece in its own right and included it in an exhibition entitled 'Woven Maze' at the University of Hannover.

Reporting back on the Paris conference 'The State of Visual Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora: Agenda for the 21st Century', Nka editor Salah Hassan noted the "serious lack of publications, periodicals and magazines on the visual arts in the continent", and referred to Artthrob as "pointing to the unlimited potential of cyberspace in publishing a first class art review" (Nka, Spring/Summer 2001).

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