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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
The South African artist on the fallout from apartheid, being his own director, and why certainty is anathema to art
The South African’s sensuous draughtsmanship underpins a wonderful exhibition that extends to film, animation, sculpture and performance art
An invigorating array of movies also included Key and Peele in animation ‘Wendell & Wild’ and Korea’s beguiling ‘Walk Up’
The artist’s stage work is a very 21st-century blend of film, music, art and dance
A retrospective of the South African artist tells his own life story alongside his country’s history of apartheid and transition to democracy
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
The eighth richest woman in Australia sees herself as more than just a patron
The largest museum of 21st-century art from the continent has opened in Cape Town
William Kentridge brings the first world war back into Berg’s opera with grim sketches, animations and hypnotic power
‘Petrushka’ and ‘L’enfant et les sortilèges’ exuberantly reimagined by UK collective 1927
Brenda Rae has the top notes clean and clear and, like them, her charisma on stage sparkles
There is never a moment to get bored as William Kentridge’s projections flash past in a visually dazzling DVD
In his latest show, the artist explores shadowy politics and history
Film projections, animation, opera, painting, sculpture: the South African artist’s works are as political as they are poetic
Matthias Goerne’s voice provided a thrilling counterpoint to William Kentridge’s visuals
A visually graphic, musically satisfying production of Berg’s opera
From contemporary African art to Lucian Freud etchings, here is a rundown of what’s on offer this week
Kentridge creates art that combines political awareness with the mysteries of the imagination
Matthias Goerne presides over a perverse multimedia interpretation of Schubert’s masterpiece
David Kaufman reports on the steady transformation of Johannesburg from crime capital into capital of culture
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