Lagos is a city of ironies. Its highs and lows often create a fine (im)balance that can easily leave a...
In a popularity contest between the male and female body, the female body will win. Yet, in a battle of...
The date was Sunday, the 12th of February, 2020. While the sun blazed on, several young people sat somewhere in...
With almost 1,000 book, music, movie, and sundry reviews and essays published over the past four (4) years, we remain resolute in our belief that reviews offer us the first critical engagement with a work of art, books, movies, music, plays etc, because they help shape opinion, excite conversation, and push engagement.As we enter our 5th year, we remain committed to providing a unique space for interrogating our literary and artistic output and providing a handle for the audience and those in the academia to assess these works of literature and art.
Ike Ude’s portrait of Nollywood’s actors, actresses and directors is currently showing at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art...
Multiple floors. 44 artists And a slew of works that run the gamut from site specific installations to paintings, video...
Nigerian art has been missing a critical element, sculpture has been relegated and Rele has opened up a critical conversation
This year featured a rich mix of artists and galleries, both new to 1-54 and a lot of those making their returns. A diverse range of 160 artists amd 60 exhibitors from across Africa, Brazil and beyond. There were the conventional, the zany and the envelope pushers but what seemed clear was that every iteration of 1-54 Art fair is a referendum on contemporary African art
The first time I heard about autism was in the movie Rain Man starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. It...
This is my third time at 1 -54 since it was launched in 2013 by Touria El Glaoui, as the pre-eminent international fair dedicated to providing visibility to contemporary art from Africa artists and those in the diaspora. 1-54 holds three editions every year—in London, New York and Marrakech with a pop-up fair in Paris
The works reflect the thoughts process of the émigré but where a less competent artist would have presented gloomy and depressing images we have an exuberance borne out of his choice of colours which manage to save the portraits from depressing the viewer.
Mr. Boateng styles himself as the apostle of Hueism, a photographic style that privileges the black body and subject presented with/in a burst of bright colours and joy.
