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Step into the Turbine Hall and let your gaze be lifted upwards - El Anatsui's monumental Behind The Red Moon sculpture invites you to embark on a three-part journey of light, colour and movement. Up close, this large scale installation made of bottle tops tell stories of global connections, the alcohol trade, and African-European histories. From a distance, the clinking metals form landscapes - waves, moon, earth and sky. On display until April 2024. https://bit.ly/46UimIe | Tate

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El Anatsui creates sculptures made from bottle caps, a found material from discarded liquor bottles. “What are bottle caps? Liquor. How did liquor come into my culture and what does it mean,” asks the artist in our Season 6 “Change” episode. “When the European traders came to Africa for the first time, they brought things like drink. Because, eventually, drinks were exchanged for slaves.” Season 6 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” is available on YouTube for the first time ever. New episode s