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Singular Gems—El Anatsui's Hovor II2 comments

Liz Hager wrote 1 month ago: By LIZ HAGER El Anatsui, Hovor II, 2004 Woven aluminum bottle caps and copper wire. de Young Museum … more →

Tags: Bay Area Art Scene, Fine & Decorative Arts, Liz Hager, Mixed media, Sculpture, Textiles, African artists, Andinkra symbols, kente cloth

El Anatsi at UNTITLED

supportfutureartists wrote 2 months ago: On Friday night, we biked down to the [ARTSPACE] at UNTITLED for the opening reception of El Anatsi … more →

Tags: Art, Art Openings, Oklahoma City, Untitled Art Gallery, [Artspace] at Untitled

El Anatsui

menno1976 wrote 2 months ago: image by Jack Shainman Gallery When I showed a Ghanaian friend my paintings and drawings, she told m … more →

Tags: Art, Crafts & Art, Textile, Ghana, Nigeria, African Art

Photography for Millimetre Design and Development1 comment

bip mistry wrote 4 months ago: Examples of commissioned photography used by client Millimetre on their new relaunched website. 1 2 … more →

Tags: a portfolio, Assignment, Channel 4, Christian Boltanski, folkestone triennial, millimètre, photography in business, spinvox

El Anatsui3 comments

Leila Darabi wrote 4 months ago: Ghanaian-born/Nigerian-dwelling artist El Anatsui uses all kinds of cool trash in his work: from wou … more →

Tags: artistic trash, bottle caps, Ghana, National Museum of African Art, Nigeria, recycling, trash art

The Belger is always big time

calderkamin wrote 5 months ago: El Anatsui’s tapestry of bottle caps and red wire.We share the same wire wrapping obsession. A … more →

Tags: Shows, Updates, Calder Kamin, KCAI Ceramic Grad, The Belger, mo dickens, SDA conference, Surface Matters

El Anatsui exhibit in Brooklyn Heights2 comments

buyathread wrote 8 months ago: El Anatsui is an internationally recognized Ghanaian-born contemporary multi-media artist. I first s … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Exhibitions, Contemporary Art, African textiles, African Art

"I Hadn't Thought of Mark Tansey in Years!" Pier 92 Opens at the Armory1 comment

Jessica wrote 8 months ago: Cross-posted at Artcal Before you even make it through the lobby of the 2009 Armory Show, the headli … more →

Tags: Art, ArtCal, Armory, Kolkoz, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Rodney MacMillian, Dayanita Singh, Evan Gruzis, Gary Simmons

El Anatsui is coming to Brooklyn

Sean wrote 9 months ago: The work of the Ghanaian artist (and art professor in Nigeria) known for his cloth sculptures made f … more →

Tags: Art, Nigeria, Ghana, cloth sculptures, garbage, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn Historical Society

Renowned African contemporary artist El Anatsui says African art now receiving attention again - Art Interview

artradar wrote 11 months ago: AFRICAN ARTIST INTERVIEW For the past 30 years, El Anatsui has been known within Africa as one of th … more →

Tags: Sculpture, Installation, Handicraft art, Thread, interviews, African, Large Art, Sculpture, weaving

Nnenna Okore1 comment

Sean wrote 11 months ago: Nigerian sculptor, video artist and photographer, lives in the Chicago (where she teaches). Student … more →

Tags: Art, Nigeria, Nnenna Okore

InReview: Grace Ndiritu and Poetics of the Cloth African Textiles/Recent Art

artmeafrica wrote 1 year ago: On exhibit at NYU’s Gray Gallery Poetics of the Cloth African Textiles/Recent Art is an awkwar … more →

Tags: Africa, Art, 2000s, Ghana, Grace Ndiritu, group show, In Review, installation, Nigeria

Last Chance to See Fading Scroll... For Now1 comment

lacma wrote 1 year ago: This Sunday is the final day to check out a work at LACMA I’ve been pretty crazy about, El Ana … more →

Tags: Fading Scroll

Snippets from the afro-sphere

yolisang wrote 1 year ago: *The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art exhibition opened at the Grey Art Gallery at NY … more →

Tags: Culture, Politics, Zimbabwe, Africa Channel

The Insider | Ohne Titel1 comment

Alex Hawgood wrote 1 year ago: The Insider is a recurring profile of emerging tastemakers in the fields of fashion, design, food, t … more →

Tags: Travel, Women's Fashion, Food, Art, Alex Hawgood, Olafur Eliasson, Alexa Adams, Flora Gill, Ohne Titel

Channel 4 - Big 4 - Installation by Millimetre3 comments

bip mistry wrote 1 year ago: Commissioned by Millimetre to produces a series of progress shots of the installation of artist El A … more →

Tags: a portfolio, Assignment, Big 4, Channel 4, progress photography, public art

Channel 4 Artist El Anatsui The New '4'1 comment

bip mistry wrote 1 year ago: The new ‘4′ designed by El Anatsui. Born in 1944, in the Ewe-speaking area of Ghana, El … more →

Tags: Assignment, a portfolio, Photography, Art, Channel 4

El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery

Laser! (Rachel) wrote 1 year ago: 513 W.20th St. New York, NY I have never heard of the Jack Shainman Gallery, but they are definitely … more →

Tags: Läser, Jack Shainman

El Anatsui, in New York1 comment

Deborah Barlow wrote 1 year ago: I saw my first installation by Ghanain-born sculptor El Anatsui at the De Young Museum in San Franci … more →

Tags: Left speechless, Beauty, Current viewings, Art World, Creativity, ART-making, Transcendence, Seeing and looking, World


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