The opening of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Arts has been delayed due to protests. Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the highly anticipated Museum of West African Arts in Benin City ...

What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Nigeria’s booming creative economy, spanning music, film, fashion, visual arts, publishing, advertising, tourism, and more, receives a rigorous, multidisciplinary boost with the release of a new ...

For observers of Nigeria’s cultural landscape, the Abuja Art Fair is a compelling study in how a personal vision can align with a ...

Key players in the Nigerian market are working to convert deep-pocketed buyers into patrons invested in protecting the local ecosystem. Tokini Peterside, Collector and ART X Lagos Founder & Director.

Plus, David Adjaye’s Holocaust Centre in London faces another hurdle and a Peter Paul Rubens might soar at a Polish auction. The King, known as Oba of Benin, Omo NOba Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II (R), ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - The haunting stone sculptures have stretched bodies with enlarged heads, mask-like faces and elongated chests - the kind of sharp, geometric qualities that inspired the works of ...

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 ...