William Kentridge at the RA: a spellbinding but incoherent show

Exhibition tracks Kentridge’s experimental career from the late 1970s to the present day

Gallery view of the William Kentridge exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy: ‘packed with so much art, in so many different formats’
(Image credit: Royal Academy of Arts, London/David Parry)

Few artists have been as “fiercely involved” with their times as William Kentridge, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born into a liberal white family in Johannesburg in 1955, he lived through the apartheid era at its height, and sought to respond to the repression and resistance of the black community via his art.

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