Internationally renowned South African artist William Kentridge has been selected as a 2015–16 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities by the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. As part of his visit, Kentridge will deliver a public lecture today, October 14 at 5 p.m. in McCosh 10 on the PU campus. The talk’s title, “O Sentimental Machine,” stems from the artist’s new multimedia installation currently on view at the Istanbul Biennial. The work, installed on Büyükada Island, was conceived in part as a response to the history of Leon Trotsky’s exile in Istanbul from 1929 to 1933, when he resided in a mansion on the island. To celebrate his visit, the PU Art Museum will feature two works by the artist in a special installation: the print “Atlas Procession I” (2000), an ironic recasting of triumphal procession friezes in classical architecture, which was purchased by the museum in 2002; and the collage “Typewriter IV” (2011), a deeply saturated ink drawing of a typewriter on found paper, on loan from the Marian Goodman Gallery. (Photograph by Adine Sagalyn)