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World Service,21 Sep 2022,23 mins
William Kentridge: Making art from South Africa's past
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With a major exhibition of his work at London’s Royal Academy of Arts due to open in just a few days’ time, here is another chance to listen to Zeinab Badawi’s 2020 interview with William Kentridge. Considered one of the world’s greatest living artists, Kentridge is versatile, hard-hitting and his talent spans many different genres. How has South Africa’s difficult, violent and racist past influenced his work? (Photo: William Kentridge, Rome, 2015. Credit: Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images)
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