In Osogbo, a city in southwestern Nigeria, an unexpected art movement arose in the 1960s ...

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 1999, the Louvre Museum in Paris, France purchased from a Belgian art dealer a collection of 2,000-year-old Nigeria’s Nok terracotta sculptures for about $400,000. Is Nigeria sustaining the ...

As Art X Lagos celebrates its tenth anniversary this week, the event has evolved into more than simply an art fair-it's become a cultural movement. Since its inception, the fair, which runs November 6 ...

Editor’s Note: Ugoma Adegoke is the founding director and curator of Bloom Art, Lagos. She is a creative entrepreneur, a vocal arts advocate and collector. When people think about the repatriation of ...

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.

Reporting from Lagos, Nigeria — Late last year, a family in north London contacted the Bonhams auction house and asked one of its experts on African art to come see a painting that might solve a ...

Quietly and meticulously 23-year-old Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu smudges charcoal and draws with pencil. He’s creating a lifelike masterwork in his small studio in Yaba, a mainland suburb of Lagos.