Towards a world-class city? (first Africus Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa)

From: Art in America | Date: September 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The first Africus Biennale in Johannesburg marks the city's post-apartheid emergence as an international cultural center. The exhibition featured works of 300 artists from 63 different countries, and as many as 7,000 people attended on opening night.

New biennial exibitions have been sprouting like daisies in previously marginalized cultures around the world, suggesting the springtime of a new year, with all its implications of brightness and fertility. The new year in question is the post-colonial era, now, after a generation of neo-colonial angst, finally getting underway on the level ...

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