UNIVERSITY SPOTLIGHT WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM 1073 NORTH BENSON ROAD FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT by Kristin Nord For nearly 50 years, the brilliant South African artist William Kentridge has made printmaking a major part of his studio practice, producing more than 300 works that range from etching, drypoint and engraving to silkscreen, lithograph and linocut. It is 75 of the latter employed by the artist, used as illustrations for Norton Lectures that he delivered at Harvard in 2012, that form the traveling exhibition, “William Kentridge: Universal Archive,” arriving on March 1 at the Fairfield Museum of Art. The lectures, compiled and published as a book entitled, “Six Drawing Lessons,” begins with a meditation on Plato’s Cave and fans out in brilliant bursts to capture the artist’s thoughts on studio practice and the … [Read more...] about KENTRIDGE’S UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE: CHALLENGING PERCEPTION