Hyperallergic

Failing Better: William Kentridge’s Drawing Lessons

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

Six Drawing Lessons

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 ...
The Harvard Crimson

Speaking with Shadow

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 New York Times

In ‘A Natural History of the Studio,’ Many William Kentridges Add Up to One

For his latest exhibition, the artist used doppelgängers to investigate how art, and people, are made. William Kentridge, “Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot III,” 2012.Credit...via the artist and Hauser & ...
Daily Maverick

Suite of rare early wildlife drawings by William Kentridge from the Engen collection poised to go under the hammer at Strauss & Co

The drawings derive from transformative period in Kentridge’s early career. In 1984, at the prompting of dealer Reinhold Cassirer, a family friend, Kentridge returned to the studio following a long ...