From what others regarded as rubbish, African artist El Anatsui has created an art collection that blends ordinary objects into a bright, extraordinary whole. Gawu, in the Ewe language of Ghana, means ...

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 ...

Artist El Anatsui likes to make art with items that have been thrown away. It’s not recycling that interests him. It’s the idea that an item was touched by another human being. "Because then it comes ...

Another room-size installation, called "Wall," features large hangings made of metal bottle caps twisted into tiny ringlets, which create the visual effect of a semitransparent net. Anatsui, as the ...

From El Anatsui: Art and Life, by Susan Vogel. El Anatsui, Broken Bridge, 2012. Site-specific installation for "La Triennale d'art contemporain," MuséeGalliera, Paris, 2012. Photo by Erik Lasalle, ...

It hangs in the air like paper, like drapery, like a metal curtain, transparent yet solid, monumental and unreal. The space around it, the gallery walls, and you yourself become secondary to this vast ...

It’s hard to believe that Jack Shainman Gallery’s charming exhibition space inside a refurbished schoolhouse in Kinderhook, New York, is just one year old. This summer, The School celebrated its ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A new exhibit opens Sunday at the Denver Art Museum, and CBS4 Critic at large Greg Moody believes it's a great way to explore a different culture. The art of El Anatsui and "When I ...

The exhibition begins in spectacular fashion at the 5th floor pavilion of the museum. Sheer and shimmering curtain-like sculptures hang from the ceiling, some dragging on the floor and others hovering ...

Akron Art Museum What: The exhibition "Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anat sui." When: Through Sunday, Oct. 7. Where: 1 S. High St., Akron. Admission: $7. Go to akronartmuseum.org or call ...

Based in Nigeria, this colossus of contemporary art has cleverly used the natural light of Tate’s Turbine Hall to create a masterpiece poised somewhere between desolation and hope From a distance it ...