As a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Eleanor Nairne is very particular about how an artwork should be placed. “I always say that you have to ask the work if it’s sat comfortably,” she says.
El Anatsui’s “Womb of Time” (2014) at The School (all images ©El Anatsui, and courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, unless otherwise noted) KINDERHOOK, NY — The School, Jack ...
Intrigued by an artwork that is new to me, I like to get very close and examine its texture. It's not unlike having a handshake with a new acquaintance that hopefully confirms a first, favorable ...
Contemporary African artist El Anatsui can probably tell you the drinking statistics for Nsukka, a town in southeast Nigeria. Over the past 15 years, his studio there has grown from a solitary art ...
Contemporary art lovers who are also music fans will find a special offering during the Art Dubai fair this week, with more than 70 examples from the record collection of Ghanaian artist El Anatsui ...
El Anatsui, “Affirmation” (2014), aluminum bottle caps and copper wire. Signed with the artist’s initials and dated “EL 14 EL 2014” lower right, 122 x 134 1/4 inches Ever since his 1999 discovery of a ...
One could call El Anatsui the godfather of the artistic scene that has erupted in Ghana in the last decade. At 79 years old and now a household name on the world stage, it seems that the sky is the ...
SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hyundai Motor Company and Tate Modern today announced that distinguished artist El Anatsui will create the next annual Hyundai Commission ...
El Anatsui is a contemporary Ghanian sculptor. Internationally celebrated for his transformation of simple materials into elaborate, mutable sculptures, Anatsui uses wood, discarded metal, and clay ...
El Anatsui, born in 1944 in Anyako, Ghana, is a renowned contemporary artist known for his large-scale sculptures made from discarded bottle caps and aluminum. His work, which often explores themes of ...
In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses, including the $236 million Klimt portrait. By Julia Halperin “Ocean,” now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses ...
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