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Anatsui showed his work at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in 2005. This was his first time "appear[ing] as part of the permanent collection in a major art museum." His New York exhibition at the Skoto Gallery, "Danudo," created a bridge between his work and the international art world. At this gallery, Skoto Aghahowa presented Anatsui's wood wall panels alongside Sol LeWitt's drawings. "Danudo" was the first displaying of his metal sheets in an American city. This exhibition popularized his bottle-cap works as he gained more recognition in the press.

In 2007, Anatsui exhibited his works in Venice at the Biennale at the Palazzo Fortuny which consisted of newly-built walls for him to display three metal hangings entitled Dusasa. Each artwork demonstrated different textures and colors ranging from golds, reds, and blacks. The way the bottle tops draped throughout the hangings created a sense of gentleness that made it stand apart from the other works in the gallery. Art curator of the Biennale, Robert Storr, mentions that the artist's series "reaches back into a whole series of things in the postwar period-it has a kind of exaltation I have not seen before."