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MultiChoice Unveils New Exclusive Subscription Package With DStv Prestige MultiChoice has announced the launch of a new subscription package with exclusive benefits for subscribers today March 30, 2023 at the MultiChoice Studio, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The new package, ‘DStv Prestige’ offers subscribers access to a range of exclusive channels…
For stride in music, visual arts patronage, AMIAF 2023 to honour Obi Asika From the vastness of the Nigerian creative space, quite a number of professionals will be honoured at the second edition of ArtMiabo International Art Festival (AMIAF 2023). Obi Asika, whose interests in The Arts cut across music,…
Still on its focus of expanding art appreciation in Nigeria, The Content Art Gallery has announced its latest art exhibition featuring seven female artists drawn from diverse strata including established, midcareer, up-and-coming as well as exposed artists. The exhibition, which is a celebration of female creative professionals kicks off…
Adam & Eve Homeware Returns With The Content Art Exhibition ANGEL JAMES After a brief disruption caused by the Corona virus pandemic, Adam & Eve Homeware returns with its annual arts exhibition, ‘The Content’. Scheduled to hold from November 5th to December 12th, 2021 at flagship homeware luxury store, Adam…
Young Artist’s Burst of Colours For Cerebral Palsy ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Activities were in top gear at Didi Museum located at highbrow Akin Adesola Street on Sunday at the opening of La Vie exhibition. The well attended event was a debut of 17-year-old Ayomide Fadase. A collection of artistic creativity which…
Ngozi-Omeje Ezema’s Boundless Vases exhibition opens At kó from January- 11 February 2021. The exhibition is the first of a three-part exhibition series, The New Nsukka School, which re-examines the conceptual and material practices that characterise the Art Department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Ngozi-Omeje Ezema represents the new…
Works of Master of Modern and contemporary will lead the twenty-fifth edition online auctions by Arthouse Contemporary. The auction will take place online on Invaluable website, November 30, 2020, 6 PM (WAT). Arthouse Contemporary will conduct its Modern and Contemporary Art Auction online due to the restrictions of social gatherings during the pandemic. The online…
Yadichinma Ukoha-Kalu’s solo exhibition titled ‘Saffron in the Desert’ opens at kó gallery from 19 November-3 December 2020. This new body of work was initiated during the artist’s residency in Dubai earlier this year, as kó’s representative for Art Dubai’s 2020 artist residency programme. While her residency in Dubai was cut short due to the global…
Thebe Phetogo Solo Exhibition Opens At kó Gallery. Titled ‘Blackbody Composites’ it opens from November 5-12, 2020. Thebe Phetogo was an artist resident at the Arthouse Foundation, the non-profit artist residency in Lagos, where he spent two months developing this new body of work. The title of the exhibition, blackbody Composites, is adopted from the eponymous concept in physics,…
Sotheby’s Modern Contemporary African Art Auction features rare works of Nigerian Ben Enwonwu and Ghanaian El Anatsui. The auction features 120 works from across the continent which includes newly discovered gems by some giants of African Art. Some of the outstanding works up for sale are El Anatusi’s shimmering bottle-cap…
kó Gallery debuts at London exhibition, Frieze Masters, with Ben Enwonwu works. While the unprecedented challenges brought forth by the coronavirus have cancelled the physical edition of Frieze London and Frieze Masters this year, kó will participate in the online edition of the Frieze Viewing Room, 9-16 October 2020. The…
Kavita Chellarams opens new art gallery in Lagos named kó. Dedicated to promoting modern and contemporary art, Chellarams decides to venture into the gallery after years of developing Arthouse Contemporary’s satellite projects, Arthouse-The Space and Arthouse Foundation, which organized exhibitions and artist residencies. ” I am excited to create kó as a…
The South African artist Pitika Ntuli could not have conceived of the Covid-19 pandemic or the 15-day protests following George Floyd’s murder in his recent body of work. Yet his unusual and haunting sculptures made from animals bones, featured in an exhibition considered a highlight of the country’s annual National Art…
Chairman of FirstBank, Ibukun Awosika steps out for the girl child in Citation, a new film from Filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan. Awosika makes her debut playing the role of the dean of a university faculty, overseeing the senate hearing panel of a female postgraduate student (Moremi), played by Temi Otedola, who…
ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Canon unveils its new cinema EOS Camera range. The unveiling was done on Tuesday to an exclusive media audience virtually. The latest model in Canon’s Cinema EOS Camera range features Canon’s newly developed Super 35mm 4K CMOS sensor and comes with 16+ stops of dynamic range, professional codecs…
The controversy rages on as to whether stars are born or made. For Timon Ayodeji Gabriel, who will mark his 10th birthday next August, the argument seems to favour those who think stars are born. Nigerians, and indeed, the world can be sure they have another music sensation to delight…
ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Christie’s sells controversial Nigerian figures for N92.821m at online auction. The British Auction house went ahead with the auction in spite of calls to withdraw the lot. The “Alusi” figures from Igboland in Eastern Nigeria were sold in Christie’s Paris salesroom on the internet on Monday, June 29. The…
Whist they may not necessarily be bringing music, they know how to shake things up. From broken hearts, to shaky friendships, and boys just trying to be boys- Aminu, Louis, Tayo and Lanre are back for another suspense and drama infused season of The Mens’ Club. Will Tumini come back…
For the first time, Arthouse Contemporary will conduct its Modern and Contemporary Art Auction online, due to the restrictions of social gatherings during the pandemic. The online auction will take place on Invaluable, the online auction platform and marketplace, www.invaluable.com. This auction will include 96 lots of artworks from the modern period…
ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Art auction experience low sales making only N135million in 2019 according to the total sales figure released by Arthouse Contemporary Auction house based on the sales at its The Affordable Art Auction and Modern and Contemporary Art auction held in Lagos, Nigeria. The figure is a record low…
