Nonsense of the best sort

The absurd, “with its rupture of rationality – of conventional ways of seeing … is in fact an accurate and productive way of understanding the world…”

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On the map: Artist William Kentridge's Tapestry for Ermenegildo Zegna’s London store

All through history, people have woven tapestries to tell stories. A new one by South African artist William Kentridge, hanging in the Ermenegildo Zegna store on New Bond Street in London...

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Art: Bold tapestries revivify a medium

On the Map: In an age of video, film and electronic art, traditional tapestry weaving might seem archaic, even irrelevant to the pace of modern life. Yet William Kentridge’s bold, psychologically disturbing tapestries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art dramatically revivify a medium often regarded as primarily decorative...

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The Stephens Tapestry Studios

The very first tapestry that Mags – Marguerite Stephens – wove, was based on an artwork by Cecil Skotnes. Her mother, Coral Stephens, a well-known South African weaver in her own right...

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William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens / Five Tapestries / 2009

Goodman Gallery is pleased to present five tapestries designed by William Kentridge and woven by the Marguerite Stephens weaving studio. These tapestries, woven in mohair on traditional looms to monumental scale will be...

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William Kentridge Streets of the City (and Other Tapestries), 2009

The William Kentridge’s exhibition Streets of the City (and other tapestries) focused on eleven monumental tapestries, sketches, and drawings on original documents...

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From Paper to Weave: William Kentridge’s Tapestries Return to South Africa

As South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artist, William Kentridge’s prolific and multi-disciplinary artistic output is known around the world...

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William Kentridge: Tapestries

No South African artist has achieved greater status than William Kentridge. His career has brought him international recognition at a comparatively early age as one of the major living artists...

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William Kentridge: Tapestries

The Wits Art Museum (WAM) showed earlier this year an extraordinary collection of tapestries, created in conjunction with Marguerite Stephens’s weaving studio, plus associated works.

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William Kentridge: Ten Drawings for Projection

In 2015, the South African artist William Kentridge gifted 10 Drawings for Projection (1989–2011) toEye Filmmuseum.

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Shadowy Nomads, Writ in Warp

An exhibition of William Kentridge’s tapestries now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art may be uneven, but that’s not totally surprising.

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William Kentridge & Marguerite Stephens Tapestry Studio – Berlin Exhibition

For the first time in Berlin, Kewenig is showing a selection of tapestries and collages by William Kentridge, born in 1955 in Johannesburg...

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Textured Translations: an Exhibition of Tapestries by Marguerite Stephens Tapestry Studio

Art on Paper’s exhibition pays tribute to the extraordinary talent of Marguerite Stephens, founder and owner of the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Diepsloot, Johannesburg and the contribution that she has made to art in South Africa through her tapestry collaborations with artists.

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Art 21: William Kentridge: Weaver Marguerite Stephens

Weaver Marguerite Stephens discusses translating the artist William Kentridge’s original concepts into intricate, large-scale tapestries.

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