LuwVor I,’ a sculpture crafted from aluminum, copper, and wire, sold for $2.2 million, more than double the next highest ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No one who attended the 2007 Venice Biennale will forget El Anatsui’s contribution to the show, said Holland Carter in The New York Times. One of the artist’s works, which hung from ceiling to floor ...

Ghanaian artist El Anatsui creates monumental assemblage sculptures woven from colorful, shiny objects, creating tactile curtains that seem to breathe on their own. The works sell routinely for more ...