NewsBiennials & festivals
Ai Weiwei, Anish Kapoor and John Akomfrah among artists condemning Thai state violence against democracy protestors
Almost half of the artists participating in the Bangkok Art Biennale opening this week have expressed "support for the struggle for democracy"
BlogDiary
Auction in aid of pioneering Hospital Rooms charity goes live from London
FeatureArtists
Opera as art: the rise of the artist as impresario
Marina Abramovic's opera The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, which opened to a socially distanced audience in Munich last week, is the latest in a long history of artistic explorations of the art form
NewsMuseums
Anish Kapoor fan gets stuck in virtual exhibition
The man was looking for the “blackest black” in Malevich painting but says he fell “into a glitch hole”
NewsVenice Biennale 2021
Anish Kapoor to unveil world's 'blackest' sculptures during 2021 Venice Biennale
Exhibition at Galléria dell'Academia will be first time public can see artist's works using the controversial Vantablack material
NewsPublic art
New York will soon get its own shiny Anish Kapoor sculpture
The artist’s first permanent work of public art in the city will be installed at a Herzog & de Meuron-designed high-rise in Tribeca
NewsUK politics
Boris Johnson’s Olympic mega-sculpture is £13m in debt
Visitors decline steeply at ArcelorMittal Orbit by Anish Kapoor in east London
NewsArt market
Anish Kapoor unveils new paintings that evoke menstruation
British artist says men should be able “to deal with women’s questions”, as first major solo show in China is announced
BlogIn the frame
Hear them roar—tiger rugs by Anish Kapoor and Raqib Shaw fly out the door
BlogIn the frame
Anish Kapoor and Carmen Herrera help raise record £500,000 sum for Cure3 Parkinson's initiative
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Kapoor reaches out-of-court settlement with the NRA to remove sculpture from 'abhorrent' video
The British artist also invites the US gun lobby to donate $1m to victims of gun violence in the US
BlogIn the frame
Carmen Herrera and Anish Kapoor square up for Cure3 charity
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Man hospitalised after falling in Anish Kapoor installation
The work at the Serralves museum, which includes a gaping hole, is part of the artist's first institutional show in Portugal
NewsLaw
Anish Kapoor sues NRA for copyright infringement
An image of his Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate was used in a video by the gun lobby that the artist says “seeks to whip up fear and hate”
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'Disgusted' Anish Kapoor condemns NRA’s use of his Chicago ‘Bean’ sculpture in advert
The organisation’s “intolerant, divisive vision perverts” the work’s democratic nature
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Anish Kapoor and Marina Abramovic battle it out at launch of new VR works
NewsArtists
Winter Olympics pavilion painted in Vantablack, the blackest colour in existence
Anish Kapoor was controversially granted exclusive rights to one version of the super-black material
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Anish Kapoor speaks out on Indian elections
The artist has condemned Narendra Modi, widely expected to be India's next prime minister
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Anish Kapoor rejects China show in support of Ai Weiwei
He has described the Chinese artist's detention as “barbaric”
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Interview with Anish Kapoor: “I haven’t done much at all”
Despite having tackled some of the most ambitious commissions in contemporary art, such as Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor says “the problems in the end are always in the studio”
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Anish Kapoor mirror sells at Art Basel
Kapoor speaks of his fascination with reflective surfaces and how they interact with their environment
ArchiveExhibitions
Anish Kapoor's collaboration with Salman Rushdie opens in Lisson
This is the first time Kapoor has incorporated text in his art
ArchiveChris Ofili
Kapoor succeeds Ofili as Tate Trustee
Meanwhile the Charity Commission investigates purchase of The upper room
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Chicago unveils its new art park
The $475 million Millennium Park includes a bandshell by Frank Gehry and a massive sculpture by Anish Kapoor
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Santiago Calatrava joins Daniel Libeskind on World Trade Center project
British artists Andy Goldsworthy and Anish Kapoor are to design memorials
ArchiveExhibitions
Anish Kapoor's 'painting' on show at the Lisson Gallery
Kapoor manipulates the senses until 28 June
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Anish Kapoor commissioned to produce new work for the Tate's Turbine Hall
The sculptor succeeds Louise Bourgeois and the late Juan Muñoz
ArchiveBooks
Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
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Anish Kapoor and David Nash made Academicians of the RA
George Baselitz and Mimmo Paladino have also been honoured
ArchiveMedia & broadcast
Art in the media: Jarvis Cocker tours Outsider Art, Anish Kapoor shows up in Bordeaux and Damien Hirst’s dentist opens wide
April 1999 provided a particularly nourishing media menu
ArchiveArt market
What's on at the Italian contemporary galleries: March 1998
Anish Kapoor and Mayan motifs
ArchiveArtist interview
Interview with Anish Kapoor: “I really do believe that making art and looking at art are very difficult”
The sculptor won the Turner Prize in 1991
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Fondazione Prada mounts show of Michael Heizer
Prada Milano Arte has already exhibited the work of David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, and Anish Kapoor
ArchiveThe Grosvenor Gallery
The Grosvenor Gallery: Eric Estorick returns
Kapoor at Lisson with stage designs
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Anish Kapoor wins Turner Prize
The three other artists on the short list were Ian Davenport, Fiona Rae and Rachel Whiteread