On William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time

Time—it can be concrete, discrete, arbitrary, or elastic. Artist William Kentridge’s immersive artwork, The Refusal of Time, evokes an embodied history of time while exploding the very notion of how we mark its passage. Learn more about this artwork and the artist's practice.

A black on white sketch of two figures with megaphones

The New York Review of Books

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Installation view, William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Refusal of Time

Artist installation

Rudolf Frieling on The Refusal of Time

Artist William Kentridge, with drawings on the wall behind him.

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time

William Kentridge: transformation with animation