Visual Arts

Female Artists Association of Nigeria (FAAN), Southwest zone, in collaboration with Yaba College of Technology, is set to hold its maiden exhibition at Yusuf Grillo gallery, Yaba Tech, Lagos.

Farhad Noory has lived in a refugee camp in the city with his parents and two younger brothers for eight months, during which time his paintings of famous people have made him a local media star.

A backseat of Kia car model, cluster instrument and steering wheel of an unknown brand - both on two sides of the exhibition space entrance - suggest commercial advert campaign for auto display.

The unfolding new face of Nigerian art expressed itself a week ago, when another young professional opened his gallery.

Omoighe’s body of work, on displayed as Modern Interpretation at Temple Muse, Victoria Island, Lagos, brings a missing link between modernism and contemporary spaces, particularly in thematic context.

Emmanuel Isiuwe is set for his first solo art exhibition of paintings and drawings titled ‘MAN,’ which celebrates the male-folk and the artist as a man. This will hold from Friday, July 28 through Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at Didi Musuem, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Pilar Abel, a 61-year-old who long worked as a psychic in Catalonia, says her mother had a relationship with the artist when she worked in Port Lligat, a tiny fishing hamlet where the painter lived for years.

"I welcome the arrival of Olivier Lapidus to the artistic direction of Lanvin," the company's formidable owner, Taiwanese media magnate Shaw-Lan Wang, announced in a statement on Tuesday.

Han, 16, has a Nigerian father in a society where racial discrimination is widespread and people of mixed race are commonly referred to as "mongrels".

A Swiss museum on Friday showed off pieces from a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard it inherited from a German recluse, in the run-up to the first exhibit of the controversial collection.

The exhibition features 36 paintings, drawings, photographs and mixed media works by these internationally celebrated artists who explore the concept of ‘wandern’, a term of Germanic origin, drawing on our collective desire to travel and explore.

Jeanne Gang has dedicated her life to using architecture and design to connect people of various backgrounds who otherwise would not interact.