William Kentridge's Noiraille

Noiraille does for African charcoal what grisaille does for European graphite. Kentridge's best medium polishes away the rude contest between Modernism and Abstraction: he rubs out the differences with a revolutionary approach to figuration in multimedia--drawing, sculpture, theatre, film, and opera. We trace this artist's evolution over a decade from Mozart through Shostakovich to Berg.