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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...

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For ‘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,...

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At 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...

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World’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...

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Sprinkling 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...

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A 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...

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Motion 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...

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In 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...

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A 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...

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Global 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...

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How 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...

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Nigeria 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...

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Art 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...

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Paradise…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...

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After 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...

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Unfinished 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...

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Nigerian 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...

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Art 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...

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Remembering 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...

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Inspiring 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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