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    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      InterviewCollecting
      Collector Pamela Kramlich: ‘I wanted to do something that no one else was doing’

      The San Francisco collector bought her first time-based work for just $350. Now, her astonishing collection is on show alongside Old Masters in Utrecht

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      William Kentridge: ‘The history of the 20th century shows us the danger of all claims to certainty’

      The South African artist on the fallout from apartheid, being his own director, and why certainty is anathema to art

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      ReviewVisual Arts
      William Kentridge at London’s Royal Academy — an autumn show of beauty and brutality

      The South African’s sensuous draughtsmanship underpins a wonderful exhibition that extends to film, animation, sculpture and performance art

    • Saturday, 17 September, 2022
      ReviewFilm
      Sam Mendes supplies Oscar-bait in Toronto with Empire of Light

      An invigorating array of movies also included Key and Peele in animation ‘Wendell & Wild’ and Korea’s beguiling ‘Walk Up’

    • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
      ReviewMusic
      William Kentridge’s Sibyl at the Barbican — enigmatic and beguiling

      The artist’s stage work is a very 21st-century blend of film, music, art and dance

    • Friday, 14 June, 2019
      FT SeriesArt in Europe
      Dada meets Dostoyevsky: William Kentridge in Basel

      A retrospective of the South African artist tells his own life story alongside his country’s history of apartheid and transition to democracy

    • Friday, 6 July, 2018
      Life & Arts
      William Kentridge and the forgotten victims of Africa’s Great War

      The 2m who served Europe’s powers a century ago have been lost to history. Now the South African artist is trying to set that right

    • Friday, 8 June, 2018
      FT SeriesArt Basel 2018
      Collector Naomi Milgrom on her hands-on approach to philanthrophy

      The eighth richest woman in Australia sees herself as more than just a patron

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Zeitz Mocaa: a shining beacon for African art

      The largest museum of 21st-century art from the continent has opened in Cape Town

    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Wozzeck at Salzburg Festival — a breathtaking reassessment

      William Kentridge brings the first world war back into Berg’s opera with grim sketches, animations and hypnotic power

    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Not-quite-opera as a gateway drug to the real thing — Komische Oper Berlin

      ‘Petrushka’ and ‘L’enfant et les sortilèges’ exuberantly reimagined by UK collective 1927

    • Friday, 11 November, 2016
      Life & Arts
      Lulu, Coliseum, London: alive at every level

      Brenda Rae has the top notes clean and clear and, like them, her charisma on stage sparkles

    • Friday, 4 November, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Berg: Lulu — review

      There is never a moment to get bored as William Kentridge’s projections flash past in a visually dazzling DVD

    • Friday, 23 September, 2016
      Life & Arts
      William Kentridge at London’s Whitechapel Gallery

      In his latest show, the artist explores shadowy politics and history

    • Friday, 2 September, 2016
      FT Magazine
      William Kentridge: the artist who’s a master in his universe

      Film projections, animation, opera, painting, sculpture: the South African artist’s works are as political as they are poetic

    • Monday, 14 March, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Winterreise, Taube Atrium Theater, San Francisco — ‘Immersive’

      Matthias Goerne’s voice provided a thrilling counterpoint to William Kentridge’s visuals

    • Sunday, 8 November, 2015
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Lulu, Metropolitan Opera, New York — ‘Passion and urgency’

      A visually graphic, musically satisfying production of Berg’s opera

    • Friday, 9 October, 2015
      Life & Arts
      Art sales and fairs in London

      From contemporary African art to Lucian Freud etchings, here is a rundown of what’s on offer this week

    • Sunday, 13 September, 2015
      InterviewLife & Arts
      William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, London — interview

      Kentridge creates art that combines political awareness with the mysteries of the imagination

    • Wednesday, 12 November, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Winterreise/Goerne, Alice Tully Hall, New York – review

      Matthias Goerne presides over a perverse multimedia interpretation of Schubert’s masterpiece

    • Friday, 2 May, 2014
      Life & Arts
      New York gallerist Marian Goodman’s capital investment
    • Friday, 18 November, 2011
      World
      Art district: Park life

      David Kaufman reports on the steady transformation of Johannesburg from crime capital into capital of culture

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2011
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Woyzeck on the Highveld, Silk Street Theatre (Barbican), London
    • Saturday, 28 May, 2011
      Life & Arts
      African art show ends in standoff over bill
    • Friday, 8 October, 2010
      Life & Arts
      A French art fair
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