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 ...

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.

One hopeful morning, some undergraduate students of Mass Communication visited the Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Arts (YSMA) located within Lagos, Nigeria’s Pan-Atlantic University, to uncover the secrets ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Library at Art X Lagos 2025. Photo: Gameli Hamelo for Observer The Nigerian city of Lagos has become a global art destination in large part due to the success of Art X Lagos, and Tokini ...

*There is something unique about Nigerian Painter, Fashion Illustrator (perhaps Nigeria’s first) and Graphic Designer IBE ANANABA‘s body of works (pictured). I see Ibe’s works as the AFROBEAT of ...

A number of these artists formed the Zaria Art Society (1958 – 1961) while they were still students at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology (now the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria). As ...

In 1960, Nigeria ceased to be a colony of Great Britain, and the West African nation soon experienced a blossoming of self-discovery and promise. Jacob Lawrence was a Black, American art star in his ...

In Dennis Osadebe’s “Nigerian Dream,” two figures clad in fuscia and mustard yellow stare out of the painting. Their facial features are obscured by a traditional tribal mask and a futuristic space ...