Held on March 28, 2018, Sotheby’s second sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art realised £1,802,750 GBP / $2,555,038 USD in London (pre-sale estimate: £1,167,500-1,707,000 / $1,654, 698-2,419,331 USD) and set fourteen auction records in this category. The sale was led by two Nigerian artists, pioneer of African modernism Ben Enwonwu, whose work Africa Dances achieved...
To mark the closing of the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 7 of the exhibiting artists returned to Venice to activate the site through a two-day programme of performances, tours, screenings and a roundtable discussion on November 25 and 26. The programme expanded the narratives posed by the works...
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s latest is a fictional foray into the lives of the Abebe family; a posh Lagos family that appear to have everything going for them on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. The story is told from Korede’s perspective, the eldest Abebe daughter, and through her we...
Her soul is yellow and it has been copiously poured on these songs─ this much is instantaneously apparent on a quick listen of Zoe Madiga’s debut album ‘Yellow the Novel’. Her vocal range is ─not necessarily exaggerated─ limitless, her voice smooth (for those who knew her from ‘The Voice’ South...
On May 16, 2017, Sotheby’s inaugural sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art realised a total of £2,794,750 in London, a new benchmark for an auction in this category. In addition, a new record was set for the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare, when Crash Willy, from 2009, sold for £224,750. In...
Nigerian art features in Sotheby’s first dedicated sale of Modern and Contemporary African art, London, on May 16, 2017. According to Hannah O’Leary, Sotheby’s head of Modern and Contemporary African art: “The marketplace for Modern and Contemporary art from Africa has transformed dramatically over the past decade, but despite this...
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text (Milan: Skira Editore, 2016), 400 pages Obiora Udechukwu: Line, Image, Text is a book about the drawings of Obiora Udechukwu by a pupil of his, Chika Okeke-Agulu, who is not only an intimate witness but also a disciple of the master’s dedication to...
