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 ...

Intrigued by an artwork that is new to me, I like to get very close and examine its texture. It's not unlike having a handshake with a new acquaintance that hopefully confirms a first, favorable ...

The star of this year's Venice Biennale is African artist, El Anatsui. You don't need to travel to Venice but you will need to hurry to the Fowler Museum at UCLA by August 26 if you want to see his ...

1 of 9 — Earth's Skin by El Anatsui, 2007. 3 of 9 — El Anatsui's Red Block (2010) explores the monumentality of a single color, suggestive of paintings by Mark Rothko or Gerhard Richter. 6 of 9 — ...

Contemporary African artist El Anatsui can probably tell you the drinking statistics for Nsukka, a town in southeast Nigeria. Over the past 15 years, his studio there has grown from a solitary art ...

Recycling may be the eco-friendly option in the United States. But in Africa, where resources are much more scarce, recycling is a way of life and no scrap of material goes to waste. The art of El ...

In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses, including the $236 million Klimt portrait. By Julia Halperin “Ocean,” now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses ...

Did you win the tickets to see El Anatsui exhibit at NC Museum of Art? Read on to find out! She posted that she would be spending her weekend with work and school. Hopefully this will give you ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Deborah Stokes, Curator of Education at the National Museum of African Art, interprets the sculpture Erosion by El Anatsui. Learn how the abstract ...