Visual Arts

When Suraj Adekola, Monsur Awotunde and Olorunfemi Kinrin showed their paintings in Lagos, the artists continued with the bonding that had kept them together through schools and post-training career.

Alagba Tunde Kelani, the literary cinematographer and chairman of National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), has said the fight against piracy is a collaborative effort by Nigerian government and its citizenry. This was his take at the mid-year Edition of Yoruba Lakotun, a quarterly cultural renaissance show that held at Ethnic Heritage Centre, Ikoyi…

In a bid to further strengthen the money spinning industry and create jobs, the Nigeria Film Corporation has reaffirmed its commitment to partner with Norway and develop their film industries, which bear some similarities in terms of the role they play as tools for change and social re-engineering. This renewed commitment, and several others were…

Ondo-born Tioluwani Olusegun Meroyi, whose stage name is Mc Tom, is a comedian and master of ceremonies. He is poised to affect his world through laughter, while making an impact in the lives of people. His online show, Comedy Clinic, is ready to set the pace, as it serves as an inspiration for people faced…

Art, in its functionality, design or craft, goes beyond creative application in the studio of Chief Robinson Olafisoye. There is a dual role of using his art and craft to promote tourism as well as African spirituality.

As part of efforts aimed at achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Children’s International School, Lekki (CIS), Lagos, recently staged a show, which added fillip to the awareness campaign on recycling solid waste and creating art from it.

If the ongoing legal issue between one of the oldest auction houses, Sotheby’s, and the government of Greece, over an eight century Greek sculpture, ends in favour of the former, legitimacy of quite a number of looted ancient artworks may go to subsisting holders.

A professional artist, Gerry Nnubia, has expressed worries over the general dismal participation in arts class by students and described the profession as a field that brings international recognition and wealth for practitioners. Mr. Nnubia said the world looks up to the arts as a profession in Nigeria....

In the duality theme for their joint show, Oluwole Omofemi and Samuel Tete-Katchan have a summary of the crucial spot of art in the vast world of aesthetics While Omofemi, a Nigerian emphasises on human forms to explain dynamics of period and trend in cultural values, Tete-Katchan...

More than half of Nigerians have some level of proficiency in the use of English, but sadly a large number of them mispronounce these words, which makes one to wonder if they are really conversing in English or another language.

Over 30 years after the comic character Pa Johson & Gabriel of the rested Fun Times disappeared with the weekly Sunday magazine, the creator of the cartoon, Moses Osawe, is back from his U.S. base and has pulled the cartoons out of the magazine onto the canvas to give them aesthetic value beyond its original fun contents.

Not many knew she was the last of triplets, what in her native Yoruba is known as Etaoko or ‘third stone’ in a rough English translation. According to Aisha, her mum was all prepared to leave the hospital after the birth of the preceding twins when she decided to make her entrance and after the usual advance rumblings in her mum’s womb, she majestically dropped!