Artist William Kentridge awarded an honorary doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels
Artist
William
Kentridge
awarded
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honorary
doctorate
at
the
Vrije
Universiteit
in
Brussels
Artist William Kentridge awarded an honorary doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels
18 Nov 2021
Kentridge was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels in recognition of his endless humanistic and artistic quest to reconcile peoples by constantly reinventing the art of drawing and pursuing the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk through all possible forms of vision.
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