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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From June 25-29, the seventh edition of UAW highlights more than 160 museums, galleries, residencies, sculpture parks, and more. Barbican, LondonThis exhibition is so in love with the theoretical ...

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 ...

This fall, the Ghana-born, Nigeria-based sculptor El Anatsui will become the latest artist to take over the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the museum announced today. The artist, who is known for his ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In truth, Anatsui’s work has evolved steadily over time and it can take many forms. Compartmentalising it does not do justice to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s hard to imagine many artists finding Tate Modern’s gargantuan Turbine Hall too small to contain their ...

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, ...

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