Arts

Guillermo del Toro's fantasy romance "The Shape of Water" took home best movie at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, putting it in pole position for Oscars glory in March. The movie bested leading Academy Awards contenders including "Call Me by Your Name," "Dunkirk," "Get Out," "I, Tonya" and "Lady Bird." In a crowded field,…

As investigation into the cause of fire that gutted Arts and Crafts Village, Abuja, continues, Director General, National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Otunba Segun Runsewe, has blamed arts and crafts dealers for the incident.    According to him, Police preliminary report indicted owner of Shop 47, whose electric cooker, which was not turned…

The filmmaker Omoni Oboli is perennially busy. She got Okafor’s Law and Wives On Strike out in 2016 and just as 2017 was about to end, she had turned up with the sequel to the latter. While Wives On Strike is a thumbs down on Child Marriage, Wives on Strike: The Revolution is a damning…

Fela and his Kalakuta Queens, the new stage production on the Fela Years, had sold out even the one weekend extension as of Friday, January 12, 2018. The musical drama ran through the holiday season at the Terra Kulture Arena on Victoria Island, and was expected to have closed on January 7. But the sold…

Arthouse Contemporary’s twice-a-year auctions have become a way to gauge the prices of Nigerian artworks, but they contribute quite a small part of the volume of works traded in the country in the year, in the opinion of a keen art collector. “I don’t think that auctions and even the (large fair) ArtX contribute more…

When last did you, as a parent, take your children to a bookstore and actually buy them books? No, not textbooks for class work, but books for leisure or storybooks, as they are often called? In fact, when did you go to the bookstore last to get yourself a book for leisure reading? What about…

Many dignitaries are expected at the reception organized to honour the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahmon Bello. The programme, which holds February 3, at the Rotary Centre, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos, is organised by the Yewa Development Forum, led by its National President, Alhaji Ayo Adeyemi. Speaking on the essence…

Pepsi music ambassadors Wizkid and Davido used the platforms of their headline concerts during the Yuletide to preach peace and love among Nigerians. At sold out “Wizkid the Concert” show at the Eko Hotel Convention centre, Lagos on Christmas eve, Wizkid putting up arguably the best show of his career in Lagos in recent times…

In 2017 there was a recurrent gripe from annoyed Nollywood patrons who saw certain films, “Why did they bother taking this to the cinema”, “some films should go to DVD straight” and similar gripes. They went in expecting an experience and did not get it, so, why should some films be seen in the cinema…

Rele Gallery’s The #YoungContemporaries2018 exhibition opens this afternoon, Sunday, January 14th, 2018 at 3pm and will run through February 25th, 2018, at 6pm. “Five bright, and promising young artists working in diverse mediums with varying degrees of skills and techniques have been selected and highlighted as the ones to watch out for in 2018”, the…

It was all thrills and funfair as the Indian Embassy in Nigeria marked the first ever yoga festival at its Embassy House, Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos, to the admiration of Nigerians, who attended the event.

Nigeria’s contemporary art space has witnessed an unusual boom in the past few years. In the outgoing year, artists made many interesting strides, both by rookies as well as the masters.