This is a selection of essays published in collaboration with the National AIDS Campaign, and in association with the largest exhibition on the subject of HIV/AIDS to be staged in Australia. Contributors include William Yang, Dennis Altman, Lynn Sloan, Richard Coles, Carole S Vance, Jan Zita Grover and others.

This work stems from an international conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, in collaboation with the Terrence Higgins Trust in March 1996. Contributors come from a range of disciplines such as political, medical, social, artistic and cultural.

Africas: The Artist and the City contains a double affirmation. It corroborates the existence of another urban and artistic reality in Africa, and it asserts that these realities do not correspond with what stereotypes would have us see as Africa's sole reality. In the words of Pep Subiros, we should talk not of Africa but of Africas. Yet until now, there has been little said about the Africas depicted here, about urban centers like Dakar, Cape Town, and Abidjan that are undergoing urbanization and growth at breakneck speed. And what of the work of artists based in these cities -- artists like Akinbode Akinbiyi, Jane Alexander, Luis Basto, Willie Bester, Sokari Douglas Camp, Calvin Dondo, Godfried Donkor, Kan-Si, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Samuel Fosso, Moshekwa Langa, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Ousmane Dago Ndiaye, Eileen Perrier, Penny Siopis, and Patrice Felix Tchicaya? Africas: The Artist and the City aims to illustrate a moment in which a fertile collision is taking place between traditionand modernity, between the local and the global -- and to introduce the settings where this confluence is taking place.

The boundary between arts and crafts appears to be blurring. Thread, weave, network, and pattern are simultaneously foundation, result, and inspiration and spill over into the areas painting, sculpture, installation, and media art. This opulently designed volume presents both an artistic and an intercultural dialogue, comparing works by Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, Chiharu Shiota, and Sergei Jensen to historical textiles from centuries past. Selection of artists featured: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anni Albers, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Edgar Degas, Sonia Delaunay, Lucio Fontana, Mona Hatoum, Eva Hesse, Josef Hoffmann, Sergei Jensen, Mike Kelley, Kimsooja, Paul Klee, Peter Kogler, Piero Manzoni, Agnes Martin, William Morris, Robert Morris, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Chiharu Shiota, Yinka Shonibare, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel, Édouard Vuillard, Pae White.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Liverpool, 29 January until 25 April 2010.

This book portrays a visual and conceptual approach to old and new forms of prejudice and racial discrimination, through original artistic works and documentary material from the nineteenth century to the present day. It documents the main stages and characteristics of an infamous history which speaks not only of the South African experience, but of Western racial ideologies and clichs. Featuring key works from the most internationally acclaimed South African artists - Jane Alexander, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Santu Mofokeng, Berni Searle, Penny Siopis, Sue Williamson, as well as emerging new artists including Conrad Botes, Churchill Madikida, Johannes Phokela, Nandipha Mntambo, Tracey Rose, Lolo Veleko, Donovan Ward. The book conveys the continuous vitality of the South African art scene and a renewed commitment to its historical context. Many original works are published here for the first time.