Scholar and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu talks about the meaning Nigeria's 1960s art upsurge. Uche Okeke, Fantasy and Masks (ca.1960). © The Prof Uche Okeke Legacy ...

LAGOS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Nigerian art collector Yemisi Shyllon wants to see works created by Nigerian artists and the country's historical artefacts receive the same recognition at home as they are ...

Ben Enwonwu’s The Durbar of Eid-ul-Fitr, Kano, Nigeria (1955) - Ben Enwonwu Foundation. Private Collection. With more than 250 works by over 50 artists, Tate Modern’s ambitious new exhibition explores ...

Emmanuel Item was first exposed to tattoo culture when he played guitar in a heavy metal band in Vienna. Item, who is of Nigerian and Austrian descent, already liked to draw in sketch pads, but after ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

AFA copy 39088019753334 gift from Janet Stanley. "What do we have in mind when we talk about African art? This book examines the shifting answers to that question. Fluidly written, it is the first ...

CAPE TOWN — Summertime in South Africa is not only a time for beach, sun and granadilla lollies (a locally-made fruit popsicle), with the influx of tourists it is also a time for survey exhibitions by ...

The Female Artists Association of Nigeria has marked a significant international milestone with the debut of the FEAAN Gallery at the Qatar International Art Festival 2025, held in Doha, Arewa PUNCH ...

DENVER — The Denver Center for African Art has been showing artworks from art collectors around the country to educate others and preserve history. The nonprofit cultural education center shows a ...

Abu Dhabi Art returns this month, featuring 142 galleries hailing from 34 countries, and for the 2025 edition, two of these countries are set to have their own exclusive platform: Nigeria and Turkey.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alexandra Bregman writes mainly about the art market. Cole Harrell has been dealing Sub-Saharan African art for more than a decade ...