The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, will officially welcome the public to its campus on November 11, the same day it unveils its MOWAA Institute. Designed by Adjaye ...

Art X Lagos, a contemporary art fair founded in 2016, returns from 5 to 8 November 2026. What US visitors need to know on entry, safety and tickets.

But contemporary voices also ring through loud and strong throughout, with a London flavour made evident in a number of projects such as the Moroccan-born Hassan Hajjaj’s My London Rockstars ...

Tokini Peterside-Schwebig understands the power of art. It’s why she created Art X Lagos, the premiere art fair and the only one of its kind in West Africa that brings Nigerian and African art to an ...

Abu Dhabi Art returns this month, featuring 142 galleries hailing from 34 countries, and for the 2025 edition, two of these countries are set to have their own exclusive platform: Nigeria and Turkey.

Despite the economic challenges across Africa, the 2023 edition of Art X Lagos — an international art fair that showcases innovative contemporary and modern art by African artists — recorded a huge ...

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 ...

In the years leading up to and following Nigeria’s declaration of independence from the United Kingdom in 1960, colonialism, civil war and long-sought sovereignty fueled artistic innovation. Now, for ...

Five Nigerian contemporary artists are set to showcase their works at the Art Market Budapest, an international contemporary art fair in Hungary. The artists; Albert Ohams, Nurudeen Odeniyi, Ajibo ...

How does Christiana Opalaye’s Akikitan collection celebrate African cultural heritage and empower Nigerian women through fashion, storytelling, and global art advocacy? Christiana Opalaye, founder of ...

David, also a medical doctor, said his 1,050-square-meter “Unity in Diversity” artwork, showing two giant hands holding Nigeria’s map, was meant to showcase the country’s cultural heritage. Nigeria, ...

:: "This one, it is knacking (cracking) not drawing. You know, something you draw is different with knacking. Knacking is, you have to get the accurate place you are knacking, you understand, if you ...