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Castles for the Afterlife: The Coffins of Paa Joe Make Their Way from Ghana...
Installation view of “The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness” at the School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York. COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK In 2014, the New York...
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Institutional Memory: One Woman’s Path to Bringing the World to Africa—and...
Mobile Museum, DK Osseo-Asare, Kiosk Culture Exhibition, ANO 2016. COURTESY ANO Nana Oforiatta Ayim is the founder and director of ANO, a self-described “Institute of Arts & Knowledge” in Accra,...
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‘Parking on Pavement’ at Jack Shainman Gallery’s the School, Kinderhook, New...
El Anatsui, Earth Developing More Roots, aluminum and copper wire, 2011. COURTESY JACK SHAINMAN’S THE SCHOOL Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show:...
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Ghana Plans Venice Biennale Debut, with El Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, More
A sketch for Ghana’s pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale by David Adjaye. COURTESY ADJAYE ASSOCIATES Ghana will participate this year in the Venice Biennale for the first time, and it is doing so in...
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Spring Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Steffani Jemison, Sensus Plenior, 2017, HD video. Whitney Biennial. COURTESY THE ARTIST This spring is shaping up to be a busy season one on the art calendar, with both the Whitney Biennial and the...
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‘The Difference Is in the Detail’: A Complex El Anatsui Retrospective Shines...
El Anatsui, Second Wave, 2019, installation view at Haus der Kunst, Munich. JENS WEBER The weight of institutional politics hangs over a retrospective for the Ghanaian sculptor El Antsui at the Haus...
View ArticleSmithsonian Slashes $2 Billion Campus Project, Forensic Architecture’s...
Good morning! It’s Tuesday, January 12. The Smithsonian has scaled back a proposed $2 billion construction project in Washington, D.C., and Canada now has its first Indigenous public art museum leader:...
View ArticleEl Anatsui Selected to Create Monumental Work for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
El Anatsui, the multimedia artist known for his bottle-cap tapestries, will be the next artist to do the Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The Turbine Hall commission has been staged...
View ArticleWolfgang Tillmans, Simone Leigh, and El Anatsui Make Time’s ‘100 Most...
Time magazine has released its 2023 list of the 100 “Most Influential” people, which this year features art-world stars Simone Leigh, Wolfgang Tillmans, and El Anatsui alongside noteworthy actors,...
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When El Anatsui Isn’t Busy Being One of Africa’s Biggest Artists, He’s...
El Anatsui may be known best for his metallic tapestries made from bottle caps, but he is also a musician. In his university days, he played trumpet, performing music by Benny Goodman and Duke...
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