Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Style myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.HTSI editor Jo Ellison \u00a9 Marili AndreI\u2019m ashamed to admit I only really became aware\u00a0of William Kentridge last summer when\u00a0I\u00a0saw posters for his film, Self-Portrait as\u00a0a\u00a0Coffee-Pot, all over Venice. Though his name\u00a0was\u00a0familiar, I was less acquainted with his\u00a0work. I certainly didn\u2019t know he was widely acknowledged as South Africa\u2019s greatest living artist. I\u00a0just\u00a0loved the drawing of the silver moka pot. A replica\u00a0of\u00a0the same pot in\u00a0which I make my daily coffee, Kentridge\u2019s self-portrait quickly captured my heart.\u00a0Kentridge\u2019s Venice exhibition was the precursor to a\u00a0highly productive period: he stages two exhibitions this\u00a0year. The first, A Natural History of the Studio, will open at Hauser & Wirth\u2019s New York gallery; the second, The\u00a0Pull of Gravity, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.\u00a0Kentridge\u2019s creative interests are far-reaching and wide-ranging: he\u2019s also working on a production of Monteverdi\u2019s L\u2019Orfeo that\u00a0will play at Glyndebourne in 2026. The works in progress are all in evidence throughout his home and studio in northern Johannesburg, where Monica Mark, the FT\u2019s Southern\u00a0Africa bureau chief, met him for our cover interview. Kentridge is prodigious in his output: now 70, he still harbours a compulsion to\u00a0create. As he tells Monica over tea and mango: \u201cThe harder part\u00a0to being an artist is that you\u00a0need to have a gap, you\u00a0need to have a lack. If you\u2019re\u00a0satisfied \u2013 if you\u2019re fine as\u00a0yourself \u2013 then you can\u00a0just get on with your life.\u201dDid Grace Wales Bonner save Adidas with her take on the Samba?Grace Wales Bonner is also protean in her output: the fashion designer founded her namesake brand 11 years ago\u00a0and has brought into it a world of interests, including poetry, art curation, exhibitions and musical events. I\u00a0interviewed Wales Bonner in 2016, shortly after she had\u00a0been awarded the LVMH prize. Then only 25, she possessed a rare assuredness and purpose. And, a decade\u00a0later, she continues to occupy a rare position, interpreting luxury in considered, almost academic collections that have reclaimed Black identity while also harnessing contemporary ideas that feel both relevant and fresh. Much of\u00a0her success has come via her ongoing relationship with Adidas, the sports brand whose fortunes have been revitalised in part thanks to collaborations such as hers. Did Grace Wales Bonner save Adidas with\u00a0her take on the Samba? She\u00a0would never take the credit, but she\u00a0certainly set it on the right path.Is Kirsty Wark a national treasure? The broadcaster, writer and long-serving Newsnight presenter definitely gets my\u00a0vote. She\u2019s unsnobbish, curious, a\u00a0champion of\u00a0talent, an ambassador for\u00a0fashion and, best of all, a big fan of\u00a0this magazine. This week\u00a0she\u00a0offers us a guide to Glasgow, a city she has known ever since she visited it\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0little girl. I love her writing, which blends\u00a0fond\u00a0nostalgia for its institutions with an affable enthusiasm for its inevitable change.\u00a0Lastly, would you consider making a roti canai? The\u00a0flaky, fluffy flatbread, served as street food in Malaysia, is best exemplified in the UK by Sugen Gopal, better known as the Roti King. I took one look at his comprehensive 10\u2011 (or was it 13?) point guide, with its calls\u00a0for slapping, resting and clapping the rotis into existence, and decided that this was one skill I could gladly\u00a0live without. Most experts agree that the roti making\u00a0is \u201ctoo hard\u201d for even the most accomplished bakers, but our food writer Ajesh\u00a0Patalay has a crack at it\u00a0nonetheless. The\u00a0results may have looked disastrous \u2013 but he gets first\u00a0prize for effort. Plus, he assures us, when dipped in\u00a0curry, they tasted \u201cgreat\u201d.\u00a0@jellison22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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