Wall-drawing is one of our oldest art forms. Look back to the earliest cave paintings (or to your nearest dive-bar bathroom) for evidence of our natural inclination to express ourselves on the surfaces of walls. Parents reprimand their children for…
The Arts
Boogie & The Art of Creating Through Frustration
Sometimes, the blank page just mocks you. The creative process can be frustrating and wholly unforgiving. But we stick it out because we have to. Somebody’s got to write the pieces we read, somebody’s got to make the music we…
From Brad Pitt to Beyoncé, All the Stars Inside All the Parties Hosted During Frieze Los Angeles
After critical and commercial success in London and New York City, the acclaimed art fair Frieze stretched its tent over Paramount Studios in Los Angeles last week. While the city’s long been a sanctuary for artists, gallerists and dealers have often undercut…
Art community mourns as Bisi Silva goes home
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…
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…