JimiKing Celebrates 30 Years In Fashion
Nigerian-born internationally celebrated Artist/Designer JimiKing will celebrate 30 years of fashion creativity this year. A series of events in Lagos, Atlanta, New York and Washington DC slated all...
View ArticleFor ‘Marker’ At Art Dubai, Focus Is On Philippines
Face of Marker 2016 at Art Dubai Philippines is joining the list of countries that have participated in the Marker section of Art Dubai as the country features in the 2016 edition. Two editions ago,...
View ArticleAt Nike Art Gallery, British Women Share In Nigerian Culture
Chief Nike Okundaye and one of the visitors showing off their headties RECENTLY, Nike Art Gallery hosted British Women’s Group (BWG), an organisation of British women or women who have British partners...
View ArticleWorld’s Designers Meet At Design Days Dubai
COINCIDING with Art Week of UAE, the fifth edition of Design Days Dubai, which holds from March 14 – 18, 2016 at Downtown Dubai asserts its strength as world’s most diverse gathering. Owned and managed...
View ArticleSprinkling Confetti On Unwelcome Persons’ Portraits
The Flu Thematically based on the plight of victims of displacement, Ngozi Schommers’ collage paintings, interestingly, bring an opportunity to see the subject through the perspective of a resident in...
View ArticleA Love Triangle… Lending Godly Flavour To Valentine’s Day Festivity
Members of Spirit and Truth, the music arm of The Pater’s Heritage, with the director, Mr. Ben Chiadika (left), at a Valentine’s Day group performanceIn a world firmly in the grip of carnal love, it is...
View ArticleMotion And Emotions…Painterly Adventure Into Art Of Feelings
Beyond the Face by Tuodeinye Ogaga When art delves into the study of mental and physical aspects of well-being as artist, Tuodeinye Ogaga’s palette attempts, science is dragged into accommodaing...
View ArticleIn Ibadan, Skretting Sows Fish Seed Of Art
Rare partnership between art and the corporate sector could not have been better appreciated when the value of a seed as foundation in achieving a goal was emphasised by artist, Polly Alakija and fish...
View ArticleA Roundtable Discussion On Ekpuk’s Coming Home
Victor Ekpuk Ahead of his major first solo art exhibition in Nigeria titled Home Coming, U.S-based artist, Victor Ekpuk hosts Lagos art enthusiasts at a roundtable discussion.. The discussion will...
View ArticleGlobal Gathering For Art Goes To The Future
A Whale Is A Whale by Sophia Al-Maria: When Global Art Forum 2015 opens during the 10th edition of Art Dubai holding from March 18 at Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah, U.A.E, writers, technologists and...
View ArticleHow affordable debut expanded african art market
Kolade Oshinowo’s The Family, Oil On Board, 2009, 25 X 30.5cm (9(3/4) X 12)InAs third art sale for the leading art auctioneer in Nigeria, Arthouse Contemporary seemed to have proven that, indeed, the...
View ArticleNigeria art market report 2015
PHOTO: news.artnet.com Like the maiden release, the 2015 edition of Nigeria Art Market Report looks at the country’s art business based on publicly available data compiled from auction sales in Lagos...
View ArticleArt Dubai… Here comes Nubuke with two Diaspora artists
Accra, Ghana-based art group, Nubuke Foundation, makes its second appearance at Art Dubai, UAE showing the works of Daniel Kojo Schrade and that of George Afedzi Hughes. Schrade is a painter and...
View ArticleParadise…according to Chukwuma’s art of panels
One of Chukwuma’s pieces In a world where clergymen, across faiths, are overwhelmed by increasing disturbance of peace around the world, Gerald Chukwuma takes ‘gospel’ of peace onto the art space. In...
View ArticleAfter 10th Art Dubai, sustainability challenge lies ahead
Abdoulaye Kanoute’s work on display at Art Dubai ContemporaryIn its 10th year, Art Dubai, which held the 2016 edition a few days ago at Madinat Jumeirah, United Arab Emirates, took a retrospection of...
View ArticleUnfinished business…loud at National Museum
How the girl child can still enjoy the protection of all and sundry is the thematic engagement of an exhibition due to flag off in Onikan at the National Museum on March 22, 2016. Titled Unfinished...
View ArticleNigerian Museum Authority lauds Pro-repatriation Protesters
Holders of Nigerian origin artefacts in Europe may have local public sentiment to contend with in the future, so suggests anti-British imperialism protest in the U.K. The protest by students of Jesus...
View ArticleArt of Charity from the Genesis Artists
Reflection by Abraham Uyovbisere Art took non-commercial venture on the lawn of a private residence in Ikoyi, Lagos Island, few days ago courtesy of Ovie Brume Foundation. The event, which was in form...
View ArticleRemembering Olaudah Equiano
Equiano March was the memorial month of Africa’s pioneer writer and human rights activist – Olaudah Equiano, 1745 – 1797. He was a navigator and antislavery crusader of global repute in the eighteenth...
View ArticleInspiring excellent living
In Pursuit of Excellence (GEM Enterprises, Lagos; 2015) written by Ayo Lawal is a manual for those who wish to attain excellence, fulfilling God’s purpose for creating them, and maximise their full...
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