Some of the most well-known African artists of the present day call Nigeria home; the country’s artistic legacy includes Ben Enwonwu, Uche Okeke and Bruce Onobrakpeya, Peju Alatise, and many others. Today, however, it is artists like Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Victor Ehikhamenor, Nengi Omuku, Alimi Adewale, and Modupeola Fadugba…
Safi FayeImage courtesy of Le Quotidien One of the few women who worked in the early filmmaking period in the 1960s post-independence was Safi Faye. Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. Born in 1943 in Dakar, she was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially…
Endowed by museum trustee Ira Brind, the new center will help The Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibit and expand its collection of “under-programmed” art from Africa and its diaspora. Philadelphia Museum of Arts – Image courtesy of WHYY The Philadelphia Museum of Art has about a quarter-million objects…
The 16th edition of Art Dubai: the region’s largest art fair is set to take place from 3rd to 5th of March 2023. Over 100 contemporary, modern and digital art galleries from more than 40 countries, including 30 first-time participants will be featured in the fair. The fair…
El Anatsui is a Ghanaian multimedia artist who has gained recognition as one of the most celebrated artists in the history of Africa and a leading figure in the contemporary art scene. He has spent a significant portion of his career residing and working in Nigeria. At present,…
The exhibitor list for Frieze’s Los Angeles event in 2023, took place at the Santa Monica Airport from February 16–19. This edition of Frieze Los Angeles was the biggest yet, with over 120 galleries from 22 different nations expected to take part. The scene at Frieze 2022.CASEY KELBAUGH.…
Gagosian’s Britannia Street Gallery is hosting an exhibition titled Rites of Passage from the 16th of March to the 28th of April 2023. The exhibition – curated by British-Nigerian curator: Peju Oshin – delves into the concept of “liminal space”; a phrase coined by anthropologist Arnold van Gennep…
Mwili, Akili na Roho (body, mind and spirit) is a major international exhibition that ran at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in Nairobi Kenya from 27th of October 2022 to 18th of February, 2023. The exhibition presents works by 10 East African painters that form part of the…
Image courtesy of Gallery 1957 Abdoulaye Konaté is a Malian artist renowned for his vivid, colourful, and meticulously detailed large-scale textile installations that reflect his personal life, political stance and the complicated history of traditional West African craftsmanship. His textile-based installations are made from woven and dyed clothes…