The South African artist has been chosen as one of the judges for this year’s International Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious annual awards recognizing novels translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. The announcement highlighted how Kentridge’s work is centered around the art of storytelling, which he translates into a wide variety of media including animation, drawing and sculpture.
Despite the influx of cash, some fear that the tickets may become a commodity traded by black market sellers, as what happened at the Colosseum.Early next year, the first New York City-based retrospective and the largest United States-based exhibition of the celebrated German artist will be mounted at the Museum of Modern Art.