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LEARNING FROM THE ABSURD: WILLIAM KENTRIDGE at LIVE from the NYPL

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March 8, 2010

LEARNING FROM THE NOSE, LEARNING FROM THE ABSURD:
A Conversation with WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

Friday, March 12, 2010, 7PM

Celeste Bartos Forum
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street / Enter on 5th Avenue

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LEARNING FROM THE NOSE, LEARNING FROM THE ABSURD:
A Conversation with WILLIAM KENTRIDGE

Friday, March 12, 2010
7:00PM in the Celeste Bartos Forum
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street / Enter on 5th Avenue

Paul Holdengräber hosts William Kentridge, in a conversation about Gogol’s The Nose, Shostakovich’s opera, and Kentridge’s creative process.

ABOUT WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Acclaimed artist William Kentridge makes his Metropolitan Opera debut directing the company premiere of Shostakovich’s The Nose, based on the short story by Gogol. Kentridge rose to international prominence in 1997 when his work was included in Documenta X in Kassel, Germany, and in the Johannesburg and Havana Biennials, which led to a series of solo exhibitions worldwide. He created his first opera production in 1998 with Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, followed by a widely praised staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which premiered in Brussels in 2005 and was later seen at BAM. His recent work includes Telegrams from the Nose, a collaborative performance with composer François Sarhan inspired by his work on the opera production. For the 2008 Sydney Biennale he created I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine, a solo lecture/performance piece inspired by Gogol, which he has been performing in New York recently. His work combines drawing, animation, filmmaking, and collage. The Met premiere of The Nose coincides with a major retrospective of Kentridge’s work on view at the Museum of Modern Art.

ABOUT PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER
Paul Holdengräber is the Director of Public Programs – LIVE from the NYPL- for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library.

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