Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale Sets New Action Record with Toyin Ojih Odutola
This month, at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London, a new auction record was set for Nigerian artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. The latest in a string of world records achieved for Nigerian artists by the auction house, Odutola’s Selective Histories from 2016 soared to…
Rele Gallery and Cointreau Proudly Present, ‘SELENSE’
Dressing up Nigerian has finally come full circle. Rele Gallery, leading contemporary art gallery made sure of that this past weekend. Liqueur brand, Cointreau gave a toast to it. Leading fashion publication, Style Vitae was there to document as it happened. From being allotted glossy…
Qudus Onikeku’s “We Almost Forgot” To be Premiered in Lagos and Abuja
He’s been described as the biggest thing in the contemporary dance art world. The grand premiere of his world acclaimed performance ‘We Almost Forgot’ was a huge success last week at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. Berlin. Germany. He took dance and art to a whole new…
Chris Ofili and the Big Bang Art.Part 2
Furthermore, in The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), the leaves that collect to form the hem of the Virgin’s garment would later persist as the pastoral motifs in the very large intensely alluring Garden of Eden works he collected together as Within Reach (2003)at the Venice…