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.
When you first see El Anatsui’s wondrous work at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, it appears to have a luminosity the defies the medium. The huge, fabric-like pieces, made primarily of bottle ...
Installation weeks at Rice University Art Gallery are always chaotic, with assistants scrambling to help visiting artists complete their monumental commissions in time for opening night. This week is ...
Complex artworks by El Anatsui of Nigeria required special care and handling at the Akron Art Museum
Installing artworks in a museum exhibition is hard physical and intellectual work. You have to uncrate and inspect expensive and heavily insured objects that have traveled hundreds if not thousands of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On a gray day last year, the Ghanaian-born artist El Anatsui visited Pittsburgh, where he was struck by Richard Serra’s 40-foot-tall COR-TEN steel sculpture installed in front of the Carnegie Museum ...
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 ...
SOUTH HADLEY — Picture an empty liquor bottle. The place: Nigeria. Maybe it’s along the side of the road. A throwaway. Consider the currents of history that bottle symbolizes. During the Colonial era, ...
A pilgrimage to Munich finds a resplendent tribute to the Ghanaian-born artist, and a fitting epitaph for the curator, Okwui Enwezor. Detail of “Earth’s Skin” (2009) at Mr. Anatsui’s show at Haus der ...
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