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Hope Box
http://www.vmcaa.nl/hopebox
Dutch visual artist Rienke Enghardt travelled through
much of the world finishing in Africa, working cooperatively
with artists on her Hope Box project. The website follows
her footsteps, incorporating artists' stories, photographs
and art.
www.michaelstevenson.com
The Goodman Gallery in tandem with dealers Michael Stevenson
and critic Deon Viljoen mount a mini survey of South African
art from 1850 to the present.
http://www.up-stream.nl
The website of the Dutch exhibition of installations
and performances in Amsterdam and Hoorn which marks 400
years since the powerful VOC or Dutch East India ruled
the space routes to the east, colonising the Cape en route.
Senzeni Marasela is the South African artist on show,
Male Order
www.durban.gov.za/maleorder
'Male Order' is the title of an exhibition launched
at the 2002 Grahamstown Arts Festival of work from the
permanent collection of the Durban Art Gallery under the
curatorship of director Carol Brown. Cleanly designed,
and the categories of POWER - LAND - THE BODY - IDENTITY
and TROPHY neatly sum up 95% of the issues which have
concerned South African artists in the last decade. The
essay writers are Carol Brown, Andrew Verster, Chris Diedericks
and Vulindlela Nyoni.
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www.artb.co.za
Bellville, in the northern suburbs, is pretty much a
no-go area for many of Cape Town's hip art crowd - too
far, and in the sticks. Perhaps that is why the Arts Association
of Bellville and Gallery is re-branding itself as Art.b
- the Arts Association of Bellville. Definitely sounds
better. The gallery has been modernised and the attractive
new website will tell you all about it.
www.bell-roberts.com
The Bell-Roberts Gallery in upper Loop Street, Cape
Town, has become a hub of busy art activity with its new
coffee and bookshop, and a constantly growing list of
catalogue titles. If you last logged on when their site
was a mishmash, try again now - it's been completely redesigned
and looks great.
www.photoza.co.za
Johannesburg photographic gallery PhotoZA, representing
Hannelie Coetzee, Graeme Williams, Jürgen Schadeberg,
Sally Gaule, Jeremy Jowel, Athol Lewis, Thinus Mathee
and Michael Meyersfeld
www.greatmoreart.org
Cape Town's Greatmore studio and residency project is
now online.
www.onair.co.za
Use this page to access websites for The | Premises
gallery at the Johannesburg Civic Centre and arts consultancy
group The Trinity Session.
http://hanelgallery.com
Home page of the Hänel Gallery in Shortmarket Street,
Cape Town.
www.ava.co.za
One of the oldest galleries in Cape Town, the AVA provides
space for a continuous round of exhibitions decided upon
by a committee.
www.batcentre.co.za
Durban's Bartel Arts Trust acts as a community cultural
centre on the harbour, with exhibitions, art shops and
music, theatre and dance venues.
home.mweb.co.za/ch/chelsart/gallery
Small, functional site of a gallery located in Cape
Town's picturesque Wynberg. Current exhibitions are listed
and work by gallery artists can be referenced.
www.districtsix.co.za
Website commemorating the area of District Six and honouring
the people who fought against the forced removals and
Group Areas Act.
www.goodman-gallery.com
Home of South Africa's top art dealer, Linda Givon,
whose artists include Kendell Geers, William Kentridge,
Zwelethu Mthethwa, Sue Williamson and Moshekwa Langa.
www.artjoao.co.za
Cape Town dealer João Ferreira's gallery in Hout
Street showcases work by top South African artists.
www.kgg.gov.za
Home of the Port Elizabeth gallery, with news of current
exhibitions and activities and a virtual tour of some
highlights.
www.mtnartinst.com
Information about MTN's corporate art collection, gallery
and educational institute.
www.museums.org.za
A portal offering access to most of South Africa's national
and regional museums.
www.museums.org.za/sang
Comprehensive site with info about the permanent collection,
temporary exhibitions, library and newsletters.
www.nsagallery.co.za
The website of Durban's top gallery, run by the Natal
Society of Arts.
www.owlhouse.co.za
Helen Martins' home and sculpture garden in Nieu-Bethesda
are beautifully documented, alongside info about the Owl
House Foundation's conservation efforts.
www.pelmama.org
This site brings together the former collection of Fernand
F Haenggi, comprising mainly 1970s and 1980s works by
South African artists including Norman Catherine, Lucas
Sithole, Judith Mason and Lucas Seage.
www.photocentre.org.za
The Cape Town based centre co-ordinates activities aimed
at fostering the development of the practice, teaching,
scholarship and criticism of photography.
www.ruthprowse.co.za
One of Cape Town's more enduring art institutions, housed
in a historic farmhouse once owned by artist Ruth Prowse.
www.vgallery.co.za
This online gallery promotes visual artists in South
Africa with the aim of selling work, and includes articles,
news and profiles.
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www.axisgallery.com
The New York-based Axis Gallery, runs by South Africans
Lisa Brittan and Gray van Wyk, hosts accompanying online
exhibitions and will soon feature African artists.
www.locusplus.org.uk
Download essays and read about the site specific projects
commissioned by Locus+, a non-profit arts organisation
based in England.
www.gasworksgallery.org
The London counterpart of Jo'burg's Bag Factory and
Cape Town's Greatmore Studios, with an international residency
programme.
www.palaisdetokyo.com
This beautifully executed website is worth navigating
just for its crisp design and excellent animations. It
also happens to be the online mouthpiece for the Palais
de Tokyo, an innovative contemporary art space in Paris.
The book page is especially pleasing - hunt for the quote
from Kendell Geers.
www.stroom.nl
Dutch organisation with its own gallery, which also
sponsors public art projects by such artists as Vito Acconci.
www.thami-mnyele.nl
The Thami Mnyele Studio in Amsterdam offers residencies
for two visiting artists a year.
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www.geocities.com/cobusvanstaden
Cobus van Staden, a South African photographer living
in Nagoya, Japan, posts pics regularly on his website.
www.alanalborough.co.za
Alan Alborough was Standard Bank Young Artist for 2000
and his website documents the touring show as well as
past bodies of work.
www.art.co.za
This site offers visual artists a home on the web, without
the costs of registering domains or employing web designers.
Artists include Wilma Cruise, Willem Boshoff and Diane
Victor.
www.kendellgeers.net
"Kendell Geers - the black hole in the rainbow nation
in a fucked up world." This site consists of articles
and reviews of Geers' works and writings by the artist.
www.sithole.com
A website in memory of South African artist Lucas Sithole
(1931-1994), showing many important sculptures from 1966-1991,
as well as biographical notes, pictorial references and
stories about the works.
www.signsoflife.co.za/domestic
Photographer Rob Mills reflects on domesticity and the
personal realm, using a very simple site as his exhibition
space
geocities.com/sknartstudio
The personal website of Cape Town portrait artist and
graphic designer Selvin November.
www.southafricanartists.com
This independently funded directory lists over a thousand
South African artists and is geared specifically towards
online sales.
www.artslink.co.za/stevencohen
Performance artist Steven Cohen's wicked attires and
writings can be scrutinised at leisure on his site.
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www.praystation.com
New York-based Davies is an inquisitive developer and
programmer who applies design concepts to computer technology
- often just to see what will happen.
www.kenotaphion.org
What can you hear during a Minute of Silence? Artist
Jonty Semper's audio works ask disquieting questions about
ritual and commemoration.
www.africaserver.nl/kheto/index.html
A virtual exhibition of the works of Mozambican painter
Kheto Lualuali, who has lived and worked in Amsterdam
since 1998.
www.bosweb.nl/rm
Rob Moonen is a Dutch conceptual artist known to many
South Africans after he participated in a Cape Town workshop
in 1996.
www.nomemory.org
Valery Grancher has an interesting splash page that
plays with binary oppositions like love/hate. The rest
is less exciting.
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www.kknk.co.za
A melting potjie of art, language, politics and the
best koeksisters this side of the Swartberg, the annual
Easter festival offers its highlights online.
www.capetownfestival.co.za
Cape Town is hotting up indeed, with public art, performance,
dance, music and you-name-it on the bill.
www.designindaba.com
Showcase for the fifth International De5ign Indaba,
taking place in Cape Town from February 27 to March 1
2002, with transcripts from previous events and bios of
the speakers who include Lewis Blackwell from Getty Images
UK, Tom Roope of Tomato UK and our very own Garth Walker,
head of Orange Juice Design.
www.cell.nl/homeport/capetown
The December 2001 Cape Town leg of the six-city 'Homeport'
exhibition is documented with maps, pictures, information
on contributing artists, and essays by Sue Williamson,
Vincent Kolbe and Natasha Becker.
www.redeyeart.co.za
Information on the monthly Red Eye art-for-all event
founded by Suzy Bell at Durban Art Gallery.
library.thinkquest.org/18799/index.html
Artists' response to apartheid is explored through the
work of Jane Alexander, Willie Bester, Jonathan Comerford
and Helen Sebidi.
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www.ctheory.net
Thin on current theory? Then dial-up, update and join
the intellectual fray with the help of this regular e-journal
edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker.
www.artslink.co.za
This site becomes more and more useful, with its e-mailing
of arts-related press releases available to anyone through
its Acemail programme.
www.capearts.co.za
Cape-based artists are invited to exhibit work in the
cyber gallery, join the database or list upcoming events.
www.coartnews.co.za
Online version of Clive Kellner and Fernando Alvim's
occasional print publication on southern African arts.
www.redmenace.za.net/redzine
Devin Purvis runs this Durban based e-zine devoted to
experiments in design, art, music, photography and the
internet.
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www.africaserver.com
Dutch-based site with a particular emphasis on the arts
and culture of this continent.
www.africultures.com
This French site features articles on local art, including
an interview with Stephen Hobbs and a piece on Tracey
Rose. Unfortunately for non-francophiles, most of it is
not in our lingua franca.
www.artbyte.com
An excellent e-zine looking at digital arts and culture
which accompanies the print magazine Artbyte.
www.artforum.com
This slick site is a natural translation of the print
look and feel, offering art world news, critics' picks
and selected articles from the magazine.
www.artnet.com
A New York-based website, this is one of the best and
biggest, offering excellent reviews and magazine coverage.
www.artsymag.com
Flying the flag for women artists, Artsymag features
interviews with Nancy Spero, Guerilla Girls, Judy Chicago
and hiphop stars De La Soul. You can also submit your
own work for display.
www.britart.com
With a name like Britart.com, you'd expect a few Damien
Hirst aquaria floating around, but this email-order art
shop focuses on promoting and selling new UK talent.
www.brigataitalia.com
Based in New York and Milan, Brigata Italia presents
itself as a centre of digital gravity for people interested
in design and communication, where the industrial world
meets the digital forum.
www.creativebase.com
From the publishers of ZOO, the renowned arts
quarterly, this UK site is a gold mine of information
and inspiration, encompassing art, architecture, advertising,
design, new media, moving image, photography and publishing.
www.designboom.com
This independent e-zine takes in all forms of the contemporary
creative scene - graphic design, music, jewellery, fine
art, industrial design, decor, architecture, fashion,
furniture ... and the catch is plentiful!
www.e-flux.com
E-flux distributes info on contemporary institutions
like the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern.
The site also features special projects and a free listings
service.
trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame/index.htm
UK e-zine looking at "critical thought around the whole
subject of how culture and technology are interweaving
at the end of this century".
www.Gallerie.net
The gorgeous online version of a biannual global ideas
magazine published in India and addressing issues that
are of universal concern.
www.newsgrist.com
New York artist and critic Joy Garnett's site with images
and prose and poetry and articles of interest to artists.
www.nyartsmagazine.com
NY Arts the print magazine may not be as luscious as
Artforum or Frieze but it's packed with
interesting articles, many of which make their way onto
the relatively new website.
www.temaceleste.com
Tema Celeste art magazine celebrates its first anniversary
with a revamp that includes new content and daily updates.
www.turbulence.org
Commissioning and supporting "net art", Turbulence is
a pioneering venture. Check out the fascinating The
Shape of Song.
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www.photon01.co.jp/reg
RhythmEngine (REg), created by Photon Inc, is a project
that uses music and visual effects as a communication
tool.
www.greyworld.org
Human-oriented public artists and audiophiles par excellence,
the members of Greyworld colour those empty, interstitial
spaces with interesting sonic effects.
www.dplanet.org
Interesting project site that operates at the intersection
of design, activism and digital art. Info about the New
Media Underground Foundation can be accessed here.
www.lard.za.org
This new website from Lard animation (comprising local
artists Melissa Visser and Chris Higgo) shows "lip-smacking"
clips from forthcoming releases.
www.sensorium.org
Sensorium is a site of truly wondrous projects involving,
for example, the number of earthquakes that have happened
worldwide in the past 14 days, and the sounds of the web
itself.
www.plexus.org
Plexus is one of the best - great artist projects, articles,
news.
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www.theantsnest.com
A resource for designers and artists, you need to become
a soldier ant in order to submit work for exhibition and
receive invitations to ant art events.
www.africancolours.com
The newly updated African Colours portal aims to inform
as well as promote contacts between visual artists within
Africa and the rest of the world.
www.cultproduct.co.za
Zayd Minty, organiser of Cape Town's One City, Many
Cultures Festival, flights this website for One, his production/curation
company.
www.blac.co.za
Home of a loose network of artists, academics, journalists
and cultural workers, with updates on activities and events
happening in Cape Town.
www.capeinfo.com
The relaunched (and hopefully hacker-proof) Cape Info
site is inviting contributions to its events calendar.
www.globalartinfo.com
Ambitious Cape Town-based venture pitched as the artist's
"International Internet Career Tool".
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www.diabooks.org
In conjunction with the Dia Center, this new online
bookshop focuses on postwar and contemporary art and cultural
history.
www.culture-asef.org
Started by the Asia-Europe Foundation, this website
facilitates Asian-European cultural exchange.
www.artbook.com
The extensive Distributed Art Publishers catalogue of
over 2 500 books on contemporary art and culture is now
available online. Hide the credit card!
www.bookstorming.com
Anyone with wads of cash to spare - and some spare space
on their coffee table - will be storming over to Bookstorming
to splurge on this e-commerce site's extensive library
of contemporary art publications, catalogues and 150 art
magazines. It's retail art therapy.
www.ballistic.co.za/dv8
Refusing to limit style, creativity and genre, DV8 provides
a platform and a resource for developing digital filmmakers
of all inclinations.
www.queer-arts.org
A not-for-profit educational forum for the display and
discussion of queer art and culture.
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