William Kentridge

K20 Grabbeplatz
Grabbeplatz 5
March 27–May 31, 2004

Johannesburg Art Gallery
King George Street, Joubert Park
July 1–October 31, 2005

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Place Ville Marie - Niveau Galerie commerciale
February 10–April 23, 2005

Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
140 George Street The Rocks
September 1–November 28, 2004

Castello di Rivoli
Piazza Mafalda di Savoia
January 7–February 29, 2004

Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

William Kentridge’s animated films and drawings are many things to many people: a principled eye on postapartheid South Africa, an exercise in medium-specificity, a rare expressive adult sensibility. This retrospective surveys all the Kentridges in one show. Older, politically oriented films evolve into recent works that push into formal issues of film and narrative. Most exciting is the debut of Tide Table (Eckstein on the beach?), a film that brings us into a South Africa haunted by AIDS. The catalogue features essays by South African writer Jane Taylor and others.

— Katy Siegel

Carol Rama

Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento

September 10–November 28, 2004

Don't know yet

January 1–January 2, 2005

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Via Modane, 16
March 8–June 6, 2004

Curated by Guido Curto and Giorgio Verzotti

Carol Rama might be Italy’s equivalent to Louise Bourgeois or Yayoi Kusama, only it’s taken longer for her to receive her proper recognition: At eighty-five, she was just awarded the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Biennale and is now being given the most complete retrospective of her work to date, with 150 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints from 1933 to the present. No wonder she’s said, “I don’t think there’s anyone in the world that’s been more pissed off than me.” Best known for the raw, violently erotic watercolors she began producing as a teenager, the Turin-born artist is equally adept at eliciting the sensuality of materials through abstraction. Don’t miss it.

— Barry Schwabsky