Global Art • 1938
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Art • 1938
The Hindenburg, touted as a superior new form of transportation, malfunctions and bursts into flames. The event is captured on film and will be seen throughout the world.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.