‘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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‘Gray Is the Color of the Insides’: El Anatsui at Mnuchin Gallery
For one of the most famous colorists in the contemporary art world, it was a shock to hear El Anatsui detail his devotion to gray and its many shades. Anatsui spoke at Mnuchin Gallery for…
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African Baroque: The Sculpture of El Anatsui
Today, Anatsui is best known for enormous wall reliefs in metal, featuring a kind of glittering chainmail fabric made of thousands of found liquor bottle caps, tin can lids and other detritus, connect…
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Riffing on the past as it comments on our own time, contemporary abstraction evokes landscapes, bodies, signs, buildings, and much more
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Community Fabric: El Anatsui at the Clark
The Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, who has lived, worked and taught sculpture in Nigeria since the mid-'70s, has shown his shimmering metallic tapestries all over the world. A small but luminous show o…
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