This year’s list sees Nigerian-born American painter, Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted the official portrait of Barack Obama. “Some consider him irreverent; I see an iconoclast,” rapper LL Cool J ...

Fela Kuti becomes the first African artist to receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, while Tyla wins her second Best African Music Performance trophy for ...

*There is something unique about Nigerian Painter, Fashion Illustrator (perhaps Nigeria’s first) and Graphic Designer IBE ANANABA‘s body of works (pictured). I see Ibe’s works as the AFROBEAT of ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

After a keenly contested two-day live painting competition, featuring no fewer than 100 hundred artists from across the globe, Nigeria’s Chizogie Stephen Osuchukwu emerged the overall winner at this ...

Arts research never sleeps, with dozens of discoveries and news stories breaking each week about our favorite artists, styles, and periods. The examination of Black artists and sitters throughout art ...

Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” aims to disrupt the way we think of art history—not only in Africa but globally. Featuring 59 artists working over a period of 50 years, the 300 artworks in the show ...

By Nehru OdehAbel Kayode Otitoju, a Nigerian artist, has won the Shutterstock Impact Award. His collection documenting an outdoor community health outreach for ageing men in a Nigerian village won the ...