Stream of arts activities that include art workshop and exhibitions, seminars and others has been slated as major projects to mark Queensland Academy’s 30 years anniversary. The college, known for its creative excellence in art competitions both locally and internationally, decided to launch on bigger scale, creative workshop to showcase great talents the school has garnered over time. Several works were on display ranging from textile, ceramics, paintings, sculpture and installation art.

The state of art in a troubled nation like Nigeria was put to test recently as notable art collectors, patrons and lovers gathered at Omenka Gallery, Ikoyi for another solo exhibition by a contemporary Nigerian artist, Ebenezer Akinola, tagged Where Do We Go from Here?

Many today would like to remember their late parents in different ways including memorial parties, thanksgiving services and media advertorial publications, but how many would aspire to leave a legacy of events that may be documented as a study material?

This is probably the biggest irony of life: that the portrait of Jesus Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci who, from all available records, did not believe in God or Christianity, would become the most expensive artwork to be auctioned today in the world. Last week, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the world) – a painted bust of Jesus Christ, was sold for $450.3 million at Christie’s auction house in New York.

The protagonist masquerades as a devout Catholic, philanthropist, moralist and social crusader in public purview. At home, he sets an unrealistic standard of behavior.