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Anish Kapoor
[Indian-born British Installation Artist, born in 1954]
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Anish Kapoor Works Online
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Original works by Anish Kapoor available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
Anish Kapoor
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City Untitled, 1997
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Six Secret Places, 1983 (Zoom)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK Some information about Kapoor's 2002 installation, Marsyas
Tate Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991
Tate Gallery, London, UK Many works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Mouseover the "G-L" list of artist names, then click on "Kapoor"
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 2 works by or related to the artist
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands Click "works in collection"
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Mother as a Void
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)  Images from a 2007-2008 exhibition
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome Widow, 2005
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario Oblivion, 1995
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France (Click on work 08)
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian) 
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Void (#13), 1991-92
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums Turning the World Inside Out
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution) Photographs of Kapoor's Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
British Council Arts Group
Crown Point Press
Martin Stewart's Home Page Photographs of Kapoor's installation at the Tate Modern: Marsyas
The BBC anish kapoor 'marsyas', tate modern
The Sender Collection, New York A private lending collection of Minimal and Conceptual Art (Get past the splash page, then click "Artists")
The Snow Show, Finland
Toronto Sculpture, Ontario, Canada
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Anish Kapoor  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Tate Magazine Interview with the artist
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Stupid - yet unforgettable", brief 2002 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Anish Kapoor: A very fine mess", 2009 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "Montezuma's revenge from Anish Kapoor", 2009 article by Brian Sewell
Multimedia:
Tate Channel Anish Kapoor: Artist's Talk (2003)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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 Anish Kapoor: Taratantara
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