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HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES: THIRTY CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artists grasp their ethnicity with color, vitality and fantasy, but this show is art, not sociology, and much of it is a revelation. Through April...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
Housed in a cramped Manhattan loft and operating with more conviction than cash (the budget is $10,000 a week -- minuscule compared with the money available to most network shows), South Africa Now presents a lively look at a tumultuous region. Twelve full- and part-time staffers and a host of volunteers put together programs of spot news, background reports and cultural features. The result is a show that is spunky and creative, though uneven in quality. Interviews sometimes drag on, and occasionally the picture and sound quality are poor...
Since television has tended to define the South Africa story in terms of violent conflict, South Africa Now tries to offer a broader perspective. The show routinely taps the antiapartheid vein that runs through the work of such South African artists as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the country's hot multiracial band Savuka. Its more reportorial pieces have documented the detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that...
After two seasons of struggling hand to mouth, South Africa Now seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...