Smithsonian Slashes $2 Billion Campus Project, Forensic Architecture’s Controversial Miami Show, and More: Morning Links from January 12, 2021
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El Anatsui
‘The Difference Is in the Detail’: A Complex El Anatsui Retrospective Shines at the Haus der Kunst in Munich
The exhibition is Okwui Enwezor's final curatorial credit at Haus der Kunst.
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Spring Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World
Behold, 50 exhibitions to see—or at least read about—this season.
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Ghana Plans Venice Biennale Debut, with El Anatsui, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, More
Okwui Enwezor is serving as strategic adviser on the project.
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‘Parking on Pavement’ at Jack Shainman Gallery’s the School, Kinderhook, New York
See images from one notable show every weekday.
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Institutional Memory: One Woman’s Path to Bringing the World to Africa—and Africa to the World
An essay by the founder and director of ANO, a self-described "Institute of Arts & Knowledge" in Accra, Ghana.
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Castles for the Afterlife: The Coffins of Paa Joe Make Their Way from Ghana to New York
The works, commissioned by Claude Simard, are on view at Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan and Kinderhook, New York.
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The New Razzle-Dazzle: El Anatsui on His ‘Gem’-Encrusted Tapestries, in 2008
With five decades of El Anatsui’s work on view at Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, in upstate New York, we turn back to June 2008, when Barbara Pollack profiled the Ghanaian-born artist…
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‘El Anatsui: Five Decades’ at Jack Shainman: The School
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “El Anatsui: Five Decades” is currently on view at Jack Shainman: The School in Kinderhook, New…
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Some Monsters Loom Large at the Armory Show
At the Fredericks & Freiser booth, dark and striking were paintings by Mark Thomas Gibson, a Yale School of Art grad and Kara Walker’s studio assistant. One painting, Searchlight, blares the…
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