Exhibition organized by the Museum of African Art, New York, and held at the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, Oct. 2, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011; Museum for African Art, New York, University of Michigan Museum of Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, and Denver Art Museum.

Foreword / Elsie McCabe Thompson -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lisa M. Binder -- El Anatsui: the early work / Olu Oguibe -- Mark-making and El Anatsui's reinvention of sculpture / Chika Okeke-Agulu -- The shifting shapes of things to come / Robert Storr -- Discovering El Anatsui / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Plates -- Artist's biography and exhibition history.