While, Nigerians were busy with the last minute preparations for the rescheduled presidential and national assembly elections last week, the entire art community, the visual art and the curatorial field in Nigeria suffered a huge blow with the news of…
The Arts
Venom Concept Art Reveals a Much Scarier Symbiote
While the symbiote anti-hero Venom looked a lot like his comic book counterpart in 2018’s Venom, Eddie Brock and his alien pal almost had a much creepier look for their solo cinematic debut. Jared Krichevsky, a character designer and Creature visual…
Four Nigerian Spiritual Dance Rituals
Dance is one of many human ways of expressing art. But it can be more than just art. Sometimes it is very cultural and has spiritual significance embedded in its moves. In Africa, dance is one of many ways of…
Hilarious Fan Art Combines Will Smith’s Genie With Marvel’s Thanos
The internet’s amusing reaction to Will Smith’s Genie reveal from Disney’s Aladdin remake continues, as new fan art combines him with Marvel’s Thanos. If there’s one problem the immediacy of social media has created that didn’t really exist before for filmmakers, it’s…
Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem’
West Africa’s new art destination is a sprawling megacity with a generation of artists, gallerists and collectors powering the scene. Right, a painting by Samson Akinnire at the Signature Beyond Art Gallery booth at the Art X Lagos fair. Left,…
A new art and design fair in Brooklyn will charge galleries a commission on sales, not a booth fee.
A new fair is set to alight on a barren but hip corner of Bushwick, the gallery-laden Brooklyn neighborhood. Founded by Abby Bangser, the former artistic director of Frieze for the Americas and Asia, Object & Thing will open at…
South African Artist Nelson Makamo’s Painting is on The Cover of TIME’s Latest Optimists Issue
The oil painting of a child is the first one Makamo has ever produced for a magazine cover. TIME recently shared the cover for their latest issue. One of the issue’s two covers features actress Cicely Tyson, and the second one features…
Billionaires are storing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of art on superyachts
People who own yachts have lots of things to worry about. Is a yacht a good financial investment? (Usually not.) Will a group of class-warfare-waging rascals untie the boat from its dock, causing thousands of dollars in damage? (If you’re Betsy…
Microsoft uses AI to bring the Met’s art collection to the web—and your Instagram
Microsoft has teamed with New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on a series of “hackathon” projects. The projects pair the technology company’s AI expertise with the Met’s collection of artwork to “transform future connections between people and art,” according…
Denise Morris obituary
As curator at Scunthorpe Museum and Art Gallery, Lincolnshire, from 1976, she led its refurbishment and expansion, and gained plaudits for its exhibition programme, receiving an award for best small museum in 1982. Later that year she was elected a…