The documentation and conservation efforts for the Busanyin Shrine at the Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove was launched in Osogbo last Thursday.

Thank you. Writing the poems was the most challenging part of the process. For example, the poem ‘Music Has Failed Us’ took four years to complete.

It is today approximately twenty-five years from that day of November 7, 1996, that Claude Ake (born 1939) moved on to the great beyond, on that fateful day in the forsaken waters surrounding the outskirts of Lagos. A fallen hero, a genuine patriot, and an unusually self-effacing human being, Claude would be the last person to seek a eulogy on his behalf.

Recently, Lily Women’s Health, a non-governmental organisation based in Lagos, took its campaign against breast cancer to an encouraging level through the premiere of ‘Tufiakwa’: Witnessing the Breast Cancer Journey’, in Lagos.

Renowned mixed media artist and environmental scientist, Olu Amoda, in an exhibition titled “Carte Blanche” which began Thursday, November 4, 2021 and runs till January 29, 2022, is showcasing his works at Art Twenty One, a contemporary art space in Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Alas! The scythe in futility,
tried to scratch off one name
But O! it remains legible.

For over four decades, Duke Asidere, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated contemporary artists has been consistent with creating delectably highbrow works.

The Sculpture Association of Nigerian, ScAN, is set to hold its maiden exhibition of art fair titled ‘ELIXIR’, a group exhibition of sculptures as a palliative to a nation at crossroads.

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State, in a show of his love for the arts, is building a magnificent ‘Visual Arts Centre’ in the city of Ilorin.

In psychology and related disciplines, escapism is the seeking of relief from unpleasant realities by indulging in fantasies or entertainment. Escape could be to a more tolerable condition, or as is often said, from frying pan to fire.