#DailyArtDose South Africa Round-Up

Resurrection Series 2, Lawrence Lemaoana (image via: brodiestevenson.com)

Week of June 21

• Rowan Smith: whatiftheworld.com
• Anthea Moys: antheamoys.co.za
• Cameron Platter: whatiftheworld.com
• Lawrence Lemaoana: brodiestevenson.com
• Sue Williamson: goodman-gallery.com

Filed under: #DailyArtDose, Anthea Moys, Cameron Platter, Lawrence Lemaoana, Rowan Smith, Sue Williamson

#DailyArtDose Round-Up

The following #DailyArtDose clusters will feature several South African contemporary artists as we prepare for SWAP artist Nandipha Mntambo and celebrate The World Cup!

Zander Blom (image via: voltashow.com)

Week of June 14

• Hasan & Husain Essop: goodman-gallery.com
• Zander Blom: michaelstevenson.com
• Marcus Neustetter: marcusneustetter.net
• Bettina Malcomess: creativeafricanetwork.com & paulkleezentrum.ch
• Meschac Gaba: michaelstevenson.com

Filed under: #DailyArtDose, Bettina Malcomess, Hassan Essop, Husain Essop, Marcus Neustetter, Meschac Gaba, Nandipha Mntambo, Zander Blom

links for 2010-06-20

• Subway Sandwich Artist's Statement (Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
  "I haven't worked extensively in roast beef—I'm more experienced in turkey and ham—but recently I've learned a great deal experimenting in this new medium. I've been trying to push myself with new textures and colors. I love the way the meat has a sort of iridescence that dances across its surface like the dusk-red sun atop the stippled sea."
  (tags: humor Subway sandwiches Timothy.McSweeney)

Filed under: Links

links for 2010-06-18

• Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter (BBC News)
  Shortly after midnight in the US state of Utah, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff picked up his Apple iPhone, opened up a Twitter "app" on his handset and began tweeting.

  Instead, Mr Shurtleff used Twitter to announce that most important of all things: the death of a human being, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner.

  (tags: Twitter Utah)
• José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist, Has Died – ArtsBeat Blog (NYTimes.com)
  José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, his publisher said on Friday. He was 87.
  (tags: José.Saramago Nobel.Prize obituary literature)

Filed under: Links

links for 2010-06-14

• Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists (NYTimes.com)
  "Beginning Monday anyone with access to a video camera and a computer will have an opportunity to catch the eye of a Guggenheim curator and vie for a place in a video-art exhibition in October at all of the foundation’s museums: the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice."
  (tags: call.for.entries video.art Guggenheim You.Tube)

Filed under: Links