A group exhibition featuring nine printmaking grandmasters in contemporary Nigerian art will be staged at Fobally Art Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, from August 10th to 30th, 2025. The grandmasters in ...

So much of the art world orbits around questions of value, not only in terms of appraisals and price tags, but also: What is worthy of your time in These Times, as well as your energy, your attention, ...

As crowds of visitors entered the slickly-constructed white-tented fairground of the sixth edition of ART X Lagos on the Nigerian city’s Victoria Island, the first work they confronted was a painting ...

Artnet's dynamic initiative Africa Present emphasizes the company's long-term investment into the historically underrepresented market of Contemporary African Art. Using the reach, contacts, and ...

Long seen as the poor relation of the international art world, modern African art has undergone a massive surge in prestige and commercial interest over the past two decades. The realisation that ...

"I wanted to create a moment for Lagos on the global art calendar," says Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, the founder of Art X, sitting in a chic private booth within the fair. "A moment that brought the ...

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

The gallery vibrates with atmosphere. Paintings, sculptures and prints are accompanied by the soundscapes of Lagos, threaded through by a playlist curated by Peter Adjaye. The rhythms call up the city ...

The world’s most famous collection of African art arrived in Britain after a spectacular act of colonial violence. In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. A work by the late Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu fetched $1.4 million at a Sotheby’s ...

Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria — Late last year, a family in north London contacted the Bonhams auction house and asked one of its experts on African art to come see a painting that might solve a ...