Forthcoming Publications

Our literary publication ITCH has a new web site and is calling for submissions for its next issue.

ITCH is a South African born, internationally relevant periodical featuring established and rising literary and visual talent.

Please visit itch.co.za for more.

A series of opinion-editorials critically debate the successes and failures of the fair. The opening editorial, by respected writer Rory Bester, sets the tone. "The one undoubted blight on Douglas' otherwise classy achievement was Simon Njami's 'As You Like It'," he writes. Illustrated by Lizza Littlewort's drawings, this polemic interlude is followed by a series of intimate profiles and interviews with leading figures in South Africa's art industry.

Linda Givon, founder of the Goodman Gallery, discusses not doing things her way. Clive Kellner, director of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, talks about making posters for the ANC Women's League. Marilyn Martin discusses the controversy that dogged her career from the outset. Chabani Manganyi discusses his reasons for becoming Gerard Sekoto's biographer.

In keeping with the prevailing tone, which is sociological rather than critical, this issue includes three essays by well-established writers. Melvyn Minnaar, critic for the Cape Times, interrogates the shifts in power charactering the local market. Prominent journalist Lin Sampson considers the vagaries of taste in a boom art market. Robert Sloon, editor of ArtHeat, chronicles another night out at a dodgy exhibition opening.

Featuring a revised, reader-friendly design template, the Winter issue of Art South Africa delivers its usual mix of critical news analysis and insightful critical opinion. Artists under review include El Anatsui, Bongi Bengu, Paul Edmunds, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Lyndi Sales and Edoardo Villa. Revived after a brief hiatus, the Unusual Space profile returns to its back page slot with a look at an innovative mural recently completed at Solms-Delta.

The second issue of Snapped will be available from 1 July 2008. This new issue takes up the theme of affluence, and features work from photographers from across the continent as well as a conversation with one of the continent's most successful photographers, Malik Sedibe.