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After months of build-up to this event, young contemporary art prodigy, Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke (Kanye) finally began his attempt at breaking a world record. Iranian artist, Emad Saheli’s artwork (measured at 9,652m²) currently holds the Guinness World Record for the largest art on canvas. Kanye Tagbo-Okeke on the other hand hopes to surpass that record by painting on a canvas measured at 10,000m².

A banana duct tape painting by Maurizio Cattelan sold for $5 Million at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art auction. This is nothing new; we have consistently observed absurd creations labeled as “artworks” selling for exorbitant sums in Western markets. We feel compelled to explore this phenomenon by debunking the “buyer…

They say, “do not judge a book by its cover,” but when has that ever spared a book of our judgement? Consequently, the cover art of a book goes a long way in enticing readers to explore its content. The relatively young African book cover art scene has had quite a number of trends since the rise of written African literature.