Nicholas Hlobo solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York
Umkhokeli “I recycle good pieces out of the past and create something that is new” Nicholas Hlobo (video by Al Todd). I am thrilled to see that Nicholas Hlobo is finally having his first gallery solo exhibtion in New York City at Lehman Maupin. I can report that his health scare a couple years ago […]
LIONESSES OF AFRICA
Read about the LIONESSES OF AFRICA. It is a community passionate about women entrepreneurship in Africa and supports the start up dreams of all women on the continent.
Toyin Ojih Odutola at Jack Shainman gallery
Total commitment to the art of mark-making. Toyin Ojih Odutola just had her fourth solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery. Odutola’s medium of choice is drawing. She is quite aware of the inherent challenge to restricting her practice to drawing, which has always been considered in Western art as secondary to painting. Yet she embraces […]
Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum
. Creativity, fecundity and the magical: Zina celebrates the women from the Niger Delta. Barely back from Lagos I turn around and fly to Houston not too thrilled about being on a plane again but very much looking forward to attending Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum where she is having her […]
Artist Zina Saro-Wiwa first solo show at the Blaffer Museum in Houston
A transformative force in the Niger Delta: Through the art of performance Zina Saro-Wiwa highlights the importance of the people’s emotional and spiritual relationship to the environment. Loaded and painful history has a funny way of leading us on roads far away from our beginnings to avoid reckoning with our past and delay our coming […]
Best Wishes For A Joyous and Peaceful New Year
KONGO: POWER AND MAJESTY but also beauty and emotion…. ANCESTRAL SHRINE FIGURE: SEATED FEMALE. KONGO PEOPLES; YOMBE GROUP, 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURY. Read Holland Cotter’s review
Lagos Photo Festival: a local grass roots project
A new frontier photography: Lagos A couple of weeks ago I went to Lagos, Nigeria to attend the Lagos Photo Festival. I had been to Bamako several times, had found the quality pretty consistent but the event felt quite formal and isolated from mainstream Bamako. So this year I decided to go and check out […]
BEAUTE CONGO at the Fondation Cartier
After being in London for the 1:54 art fair I rushed off to Paris for a couple of days to look at sinks and faucets for a little house that I am renovating in France. To my surprise I found out the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier, Beauté Congo- 1926-2015 that opened in July had […]
Contemporary African Art: 1:54 greeted with enthusiasm in London
Diverse and manageable Art fair! What can be better..as far as art fairs go. The Contemporary African Art fair 1:54, the brainchild of Tourai El Glaoui, took place in London a couple weeks ago for its third London edition at the Somerset House. The word was clearly out that it was the place to be; […]
Upcoming meanderings
After just a couple of weeks in New York I am off again to London to see the 1:54 African art fair. I will be arriving after everybody as I am stuck in New York being a good citizen by doing jury duty and visiting my mother who has Alzheimer’s and no longer knows […]
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