Project a Black Planet: Barbican Announces Major Pan-African Art Exhibition
13 March 2026 • Mark Westall
A major international exhibition examining the influence of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production.
Tag: William Kentridge
William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg, South Africa) creates a richly inventive body of work spanning drawing, film, sculpture, theatre and opera. His signature stop-motion animations—made by repeatedly marking, erasing and redrawing charcoal on paper—carry the trace of time in every frame, revealing histories as shifting, unstable and actively constructed.
Kentridge’s practice navigates the complexities of South Africa’s political landscape: colonialism, apartheid, memory and the mechanisms of power. Yet his work remains deeply human, driven by humour, lyricism and the poetics of imperfection. Figures wander, fragments collide, narratives fracture and rebuild. Across media, he treats the studio as a stage and drawing as a form of thinking—restless, searching, alive.
Through this blend of political clarity and expressive experimentation, Kentridge has shaped a visual language that is both rigorously critical and profoundly generous, inviting viewers to witness how history is made, erased and reimagined in real time.
Review: Art confronting atrocities – there are Seeds of Hate and Hope at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich.
2 December 2025 • Tabish Khan
A hard-hitting exhibition where art reflects on genocides, ethnic cleansing, and human rights abuses.
Where Contemporary Art Meets Ancient History: A Journey Through Panorama Pozzuoli
18 September 2025 • Tabish Khan
Panorama Pozzuoli is cultural place-making at its finest.
William Kentridge’s Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot Now Streaming Worldwide on MUBI.
18 October 2024 • Mark Westall
William Kentridge’s Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot Now Streaming Worldwide on MUBI.- From today (October 18th) you can watch William… Read More
The Vinyl Factory to present REVERB – 100+ artists exploring the intersection of art and sound.
11 April 2024 • Mark Westall
The Vinyl Factory at 180 Studios presents REVERB, a major multimedia exhibition exploring the intersection of art and sound, opening on 23rd… Read More
REVIEW: Soft Power DAS MINSK
8 April 2024 • Camille Moreno
A shadowy silhouette of a hunched figure shows a woman on the move. Set against a map of “Germanie” and… Read More
Top 5 Exhibitions to see in London during Frieze Week
9 October 2022 • Tabish Khan
Lockers, tables, colonialism, history and darkness during Frieze Week
The Top 5 Museums shows to see in London this Autumn
1 October 2022 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan the @LondonArtCritic picks his favourite top 5 museum shows to see in London this Autumn. Each one comes with a concise review to help you decide whether it’s for you.
William Kentridge ‘must see’ show opens at The Royal Academy of Arts
20 September 2022 • Mark Westall
The Royal Academy of Arts has just opened one of the best shows if not the best show of 2022 from the internationally celebrated South African artist and Honorary Royal Academician, William Kentridge.
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts
25 August 2022 • Mark Westall
In September the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist and Honorary Royal Academician, William Kentridge
The Royal Academy of Arts to host a major exhibition of the work of South African artist William Kentridge.
29 April 2022 • Mark Westall
In autumn 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated… Read More
‘Among the Trees’ first comprehensive art exhibition exploring Trees and Forests to open at Hayward Gallery.
29 January 2020 • Mark Westall
Among the Trees celebrates key works of art that reimagine how we think about trees and forests. Spanning the past 50 years, the exhibition brings together major works by 38 leading international artists from five different continents.
Comparatively unfashionable British painting of the last century #ArtThing2015
3 January 2016 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent, What’s your ArtThing of 2015?
William Kentridge’s Ubu and the Truth Commission to mark the rebirth of London’s Coronet Theatre
8 September 2015 • Mark Westall
The Coronet at Notting Hill Gate will celebrate its rebirth in October 2015 with Ubu and the Truth Commission, William Kentridge’s landmark collaboration with South African novelist and playwright, Jane Taylor, and Handspring Puppet Company
Jeremy Deller curates yet another show ‘All That is Solid Melts Into Air’, now on @ Manchester Art Gallery
14 October 2013 • VC Maurer
As part of the Hayward Touring Exibition, ‘All That is Solid Melts into Air’ takes a personal look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture, and its persisting influence on our lives today. The exhibition combines contemporary music, film and photography with a vast range of 19th century images and objects.
A German TV Station is to Broadcast a 3 week long video art festival 24/7
20 August 2013 • Mark Westall
A German TV Station is to Broadcast a 3 week long video art festival 24/7
Art Video Nights at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
26 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Running from December 5th to 8th, Art Video Nights will showcase 60 film and video works on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center in SoundScape Park.
Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints Christie’s King Street Wednesday, 15th September 2010
31 August 2010 • Mark Westall
Christie’s announce the September auction of Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints, which will showcase five centuries of printmaking and… Read More
‘Tasters’ Choice,’ an exhibition of art and design at Stephen Friedman Gallery Through to 17th July
13 June 2010 • Mark Westall
Six internationally renowned private collectors have been asked to act as curators and to each choose four artists who play… Read More
