Artist William Kentridge in front of one of his art works (via davidkrutpublishing.com) William Kentridge was a failure. By his own account, the South African artist racked up a long list of ...

This collection of South African artist Kentridge’s Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, delivered at Harvard in 2012, is an enlightening, circuitous, and self-reflexive performance that delves into his ...

In the first installment of this year’s Norton lecture series, South-African artist William Kentridge described the experience of an 8 year-old standing on a beach watching his shadow lengthen. “The ...

The South African artist William Kentridge has set up an arts foundation near his studio in Johannesburg, providing a “safe space for uncertainty, doubt, stupidity and, at times, failure”, he says.

The South African artist William Kentridge draws with remarkable speed and with a showman’s sense of invention and fun. He has made films and staged productions of everything from opera to puppet ...