The work of Beninese artist Meschac Gaba, currently on show In Johannesburg, often creates a meeting place where ideas of art and life are bandied about. By Kim Gurney.

GugulectIve, a group of young artIsts based in the cape town township of Gugulethu aim to foster creative interactions and debate in their community. By Gabi Ngcobo.

Namibian art enjoys little currency In South Africa. The opening of a recent site- specifics project at Etosha National park allowed Kim Gurney to meet some of the country's more established artists.

Public museums are losing out on building representative collections for future generations as contemporary South African art increasingly gets exported. By Carol Brown.

It Is risky business setting up a gallery In Soweto but a necessary step for the promulgation of the vsual arts, writes Mary Corrigall.

Willem Boshoff's work comprises a consistent and concrete meditation on the meaning and meaninglessness, the legibility and illegibility, the clarity and obscurity of words and images. By Gerhard Schoeman

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For Anthea Moys making Art is a Means to capture, demonstrate and remind all willing souls what it is like to simply play, writes Tegan Bristow. Anhea Moys is Art South Africa Magazine's 10th Bright Young Thing for 2007.

vignette. n. 1. an ornamental design used on a page of a book 2. a picture or photograph with no definite border, shading off gradually at the edges into the background 3. a short, delicate literary sketch –– Webster's New World Dictionary

While on a recent visit to Chile, Simon Gush chatted With Philippe Van Cauteren and Thomas Caron, of Belgium's Smak Museum in Ghent, about latitudes, taking positions and slowing down the consumption of art. Simon Gush is Art South Africa magazine's 11th and final Bright Young Things.

South African art history is the product of a larger narrative, one that fundamentally revolves around the hegemonic role of whiteness. In her broad survey of historical writings on black South African artists, Lize van Robbroeck points to a persistent amnesia regarding this fact in the re-writing of South African art history

Established in 1996 by Clémentine Deliss, Metronome is a print publication with no editorial team or regular time structure. Published in various formats from locations as diverse as Berlin, Dakar, Oregon, Paris and Tokyo, its contributors have included artists Kendell Geers, Penny Siopis and Issa Samb, art writer Matthew Collings, curators Catherine David and Simon Njami, as well as philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Art South Africa spoke with Deliss, former artistic director of the artist-led festival africa95, about the evolution of this quintessentially nomadic publication

"In the beginning is seeing," observed poet Antjie Krog once. Here she discusses the selection of the cover image for her most recent collection of poems, Body Bereft