... from the event, it mer colonial outpost can reorient itself CAPE '07 was left to an intrepid and committed to its African counterparts rather than group to pull the event...

...Pep Subirós The exhibition Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope) was presented by the Museum for African Art in collaboration with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City from April to July 2013. Through combinations of sculpted figures, tableaux, installations...

... to be celebrated in all corners of the world. It is human nature to rejoice in good times and mourn in tragic times. Like many events of its kind the Cape Town One City Festival came and now it is gone. Now as we proceed with our everyday life in its aftermath, its hangover calls upon us to reflect...

...Ana Nolasco The author proposes an analysis of the ways in which the memory and heritage of colonialism are broken down and critically appraised through artistic speech and the device of a poetic journey in the audiovisual installations of the Cape Verdean artist César Schofield Cardoso. Her...

.... hospitality. He might mention Okwui s appreciation of his writing on critical humanism, which Colin On a visit to Cape Town, Okwui took a trip to argued had a special life in Africa and was working Cape Point, later recalling: to advance. Informed by Edward Said s reflections on humanism and democratic...

... Hlobo's second exhibition at a local level, engagement with his work forces those who Michael Stevenson in Cape Town. His first solo show with don't speak the language to become curious about it, and the gallery, Izele (2006) was, in many ways, the dream those who do...

... cm. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson, Cape Town. Photo: Mario Todeschini. 130>IUka Journal of Contemporary African Art almost step into. Viewers are similarly invited to society, a loosely grouped civilization located in explore the negative space between figures...

... at tion of setting an effigy on fire at the end of the Gwangju Biennale ‘08 and CAPE ‘09 and is cur - revels. rently working on a project about Carnival and con...

... Stevenson, Cape Town. 124* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Botha's production is best characterized by tion seemingly geared for that audience. Entitled what postmodernists would call hostility toward commune: onomatopoeia, the work—with minor grand narratives. Central...

... frames, glass, installation dimensions variable. Courtesy Michael Stevenson, Cape Town...

..., Cape Town Journal of Contemporary African Art • 27 • Fall 2010 76 • Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-2010-011  © 2010 by Nka Publications Refracting Surfaces...

... zed , Apartheid to the public eye. T he girl in Give the People What _ Journal of Contempora ry African Art Het Kwaad is Banaal (Evil is Bana~, 1984. Oil on canvas, 125 x 105 cm. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Courtesy Goodman Gallery Cape. Spring...

... me. Gallery in Cape Town and at the Durban Art Gal- lery.1 Although he has been marginalized and gen- Louis Khehla Maqhubela, erally neglected, his name is significant in the his- recalling his early youth in an e-mail to the author...

... of Tretchikoff’s paintings at the Iziko was arrested by the Japanese army, kept in solitary South African National Gallery (ISANG), Cape confinement for three months, and subjected to Town, on May 26, 2011, perhaps to show that no “starvation, dysentery and near-­death.”4 True child amount of controversy can...

... Godby welethu Mthethwa compares the photographs of people he has been taking since 1996 in Crossroads and oth• er informal settlements outside Cape Town with the popular image of these places that has been generated...

..., the artist has been exploring the history of spices in the trade the potential for interaction and conducted by the Dutch East Indies Company around the exchange afforded by a more interna• Cape and the Muslim heritage from which she has been...

... to the offi• Mendel documented the progress of these different treks, and creat• cial mythology, one hundred and fifty years earlier in 1838, Afrikaner ed the exhibition Beloofde Land ('Promised Land') of 56 photo• farmers in the Cape, angered by continual interference in their affairs...

...; she has completed residencies at isolation. Gasworks, London and the South African National Gallery, This temple-throbbing anxiety and not-so-mild territori• Cape Town this year; she has participated in numerous exhi• ality has...

... economics, ennui who lives and works in Cape and transgression on the one Town, South Africa...

.... ritual purposes) and aradh (turmeric). Above this, she suspend• Funded by Marlene Dumas who was herself a young artist in ed the jeans, meticulously painted in exquisite red, orange and Cape Town before establishing an international career in yellow henna designs. Color, aroma...