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 ...
In Osogbo, a city in southwestern Nigeria, an unexpected art movement arose in the 1960s ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ben Enwonwu’s The Durbar of Eid-ul-Fitr, Kano, Nigeria (1955) - Ben Enwonwu Foundation. Private Collection. With more than 250 ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” opens Jan. 23–Aug. 23. Artists’ voices are central to this exhibition, which features works ...
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 ...
Victor Ekpuk is an internationally renowned Nigerian artist known for his artwork inspired by ancient African writing and graphic writing systems. INTERwoven TEXTures is his first solo exhibition at ...
*My late mother’s brother-in-law, the late Engineer Idowu Akinde was an Executive Engineer at PWD in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, through whom Dr. Dele Jegede got his first job as a youngster. This provided ...
“I don’t know yet that there is such a thing as African LGBTQ art history,” says curator and author Serubiri Moses. Moses is a co-curator of “Here: Pride and Belonging in African Art,” now open at the ...
From the historic corridors of Egypt's ancient treasures to the contemporary galleries in South Africa, each museum showcases Africa's culture and evolving art scene. These museums not only house ...