Visual Arts

The Obi of Onitsha, His Royal Majesty Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, CFR, and members of Columbia Business School’s Alumni Club have commended New York-based, Nigerian born fine art photographer, Iké Udé, for bringing his internationally acclaimed photography show titled, Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty, to Nigeria. The Obi also urged him to hold more shows in…

Promise Onali and Chibuike Uzoma, whose canvas textures differ sharply, have a meeting point in ‘probing’ of human consciousness. The artists trace behaviourial patterns to long period of specific shade in socio-cultural attitudes.

Viewing the oeuvre of Bruce Onobrakpeya in just one spot is no doubt a rare and amazing experience. A legend in printmaking, Onobrakpeya...

Eleven years after the National Gallery of Art (NGA) Bill was first mooted, the document, whose aim is to rejig art regulation in Nigeria, is still awaiting consideration.

Four years after, Eva Obodo returns to the exhibition circuit of Lagos with Eva Obodo: Ngwugwu (Packages), showing from May 11 to 25, 2019 at Kia Showroom, on Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Organised by Arthouse – The Space, the show brings together recent works incorporating discarded materials, including charcoal and jute fibre, to…

Olayiwola Awakan is a dancer, dramatist, author and motivational speaker, who believes in using dance and the stage to address social ills. The thespian cum broadcaster added another feather to his cap at the just concluded World Dance Day celebration held at Ajegunle, Lagos. He tells OMIKO AWA what dance is to him among other…

From tomorrow, the attention of arts community will shift to a new art gallery, under LVI Home and Office Solutions Limited on Henry Ojogho Crescent, Lekki Phase1, Lekki in Lagos, as it hosts its debut show Beauty and the Beholder, which opens tomorrow, April 15, till April 20. CEO, LVI Home and Office Solutions Limited,…

When the 58th Venice Art Biennale themed, May You Live In Interesting Times, opens on May 11, 2019, in Italy, the shadow of Okwui Enwezor will cast over the African contingent. Enwezor, who was the event’s artistic director at its 56th edition, in 2015, died on March 15 this year at the age of 55.…

Over the last few decades, film fans have been thrilled and fascinated by the lengths some actors go to transform their bodies and disappear into the role. These thespians are sometimes unrecognizable and you can’t really peg them down. Christian Bale going from emaciation in The Machinist (2004) straight to comic hero muscle mass in…

An exhibition of new installation works by Bruce Onobrakpeya titled, Beauty and The Machine, will hold from April 20 to May 10, 2019 at the Freedom Park, Lagos. It is the first of a series of shows to commemorate 60 years of the artist’s public presentation of his art through exhibitions. According to Kennii Ekundayo,…

Sam Ovraiti’s art, in over three decades, has enriched collectors’ walls as well as works of critics and historians. Most synonymous with his career is some kind of attention to poetic application of colours. Celebrating over three and a half decades, the artist goes Retrospective; Exposition of 36 Years Romance with the Language of Colours…

In what looks like a divine arrangement, fuji music legend, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as K1 De Ultimate, has thrown his weight behind Oluwatobi Ilelolawa, the 12 year-old Primary Six pupil....