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William Kentridge

May 2024

  • Lady Sanity performs in Stan Douglas’s ISDN.

    Reverb review – summer’s here and the time is right for dancing in a concrete basement!

    This pounding show explores the magic of collaborations – between musicians and between the worlds of art and music. Our writer gets so deep in the groove he can’t get out

October 2022

  • Thulisile Binda in The Weep of the Whips.

    The Centre for the Less Good Idea: To What End review – sketches from South Africa

    There are good ideas in this collection of pieces from William Kentridge’s experimental performance studio but they lack depth and development

September 2022

  • William Kentridge drawing for Ubu Tells the Truth, 1997

    William Kentridge review – never ceases to mesmerise

  • Video still from Notes Towards a Model Opera, 2015.

    William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury

October 2020

  • Video art

    From Warhol to Steve McQueen: a history of video art in 30 works

    Starting with experimental film in the 60s, video art has revolutionised the art world. We celebrate the medium through its most groundbreaking pieces

November 2019

  • ‘Art is a powerful tool’ … We are Free! by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, 2018.

    Yoko Ono and the freedom fighters – in pictures

    Featuring work by Gerhard Richter, Yoko Ono, William Kentridge and more, Art 19 is an Amnesty exhibition inspired by Article 19, which defends freedom of expression. The show tours Europe next month

September 2018

  • It’s all for nothing...

    Young arts run free: the 50 best things to do in the UK for zilch

    Whether you’re a social strategist or a stone-broke student, there’s a world of cultural freebies to be seized across the UK

July 2018

  • A grand, chaotic procession … a scene from William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load.

    The carnage cabaret: Tate's high-octane tribute to Africa's forgotten war dead

    Ten times more porters than soldiers died in Africa during the first world war. But they have never been properly commemorated. Now Tate Modern is putting this right – with William Kentridge’s most eye-popping show yet

November 2016

  • Brenda Rae, left, in the title role, with Sarah Connolly as Countess Geschwitz in Lulu at the Coliseum. (Opening 10-11-16) ©Tristram Kenton 11/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Lulu; Igor Levit; London festival of American music – review

  • James Morris as Dr Schön and Brenda Rae as Lulu at the Coliseum, London.

    Lulu review – Kentridge makes Berg's opera a serious visual feast

September 2016

  • The Refusal of Time, by William Kentridge in collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison.

    William Kentridge review – love and propaganda on a trip through the stars

  • Kentridge is pictured in his collaborative video projection The Refusal of Time (2012). In collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh, Dada Masilo and Peter Galison 5-channel video projection, colour, sound, megaphones, breathing machine. 30 minutes

    Out of South Africa: how politics animated the art of William Kentridge

November 2015

  • Lulu

    Lulu review – sex, art and murder create a landmark night for the Met

    In a critical dialogue, Guardian US’s classical music and art critics review William Kentridge’s triumphantly radical production of Berg’s modernist masterpiece

October 2015

  • Lulu

    William Kentridge on Lulu: 'You know there’s going to be a body on stage'

    The visual artist has directed a radical new version of the opera for the Metropolitan in New York, replete with sex, death and money

September 2015

  • Kentridge

    William Kentridge; Uwe Wittwer review – exhilarating and melancholy

    South Africa’s William Kentridge considers a whole new world of influences, not least China, in his compelling new show

July 2015

  • Felicia Kentridge who has died aged 85

    Other lives
    Felicia Kentridge obituary

    Other lives: Co-founder of South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre, which made an impact on the struggle against apartheid

March 2015

  • African art auction

    Guardian Africa network
    From giants to heavy metal: contemporary African art - in pictures

    A major sale of African artworks in London boasts big names old and new from across the continent, and reflects a growing appetite in the art market

February 2014

  • Refusal of time at Perth Festival

    Australia culture blog
    The Refusal of Time by William Kentridge – audio slideshow

    Step into the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and see William Kentridge's astonishing work The Refusal of Time come to life. The piece involves a huge variety of sounds and images that we've gathered together. What's with all the clocks? Did you just see slaves? Or is it all about entropy? Have a listen to what people think they saw as they leave the installation

  • The Refusal of Time

    Australia culture blog
    William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time – interview

    Perth festival: The studio is filled with possibilities and objects waiting to come into being, says the South African artist discussing his practice and five-screen video installation
  • The Refusal of Time

    The Refusal of Time – review

    Andrew Frost: William Kentridge’s old world aesthetic of agitprop and charcoal and pencil drawing animations weaves a perplexing video collage, but one that favours style over meaning
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