A researcher claimed Tuesday to have discovered the exact spot where Vincent Van Gogh painted his last canvas before his mysterious death from a gunshot wound. The tortured Dutch artist had been working on “Tree Roots”, a jumble of brightly-coloured tree trunks, roots and stumps near Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, on a hot July day […]

Nigeria’s cultural tourism community witnessed its first successful count down to a post-Covid-19 new normal engagement with a drive-in artistic experience held at the open grounds of Sheraton hotels, Abuja recently. The event, shoveled with very tight security, social distancing and a must-wear- mask protocols, ushered in selected car owners strategically connected to a special […]

Award-winning Nigerian poet, writer and spoken word artist, Ms Wana Udobang, has been selected to participate in the 54th International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, courtesy of the United States Department of State. Over the course of 11 weeks, Udobang will join 29 other accomplished writers from across the globe […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru For the first time since the inception of the LagosPhoto Festival organised by the African Artists’ Foundation, AAF, the event will be held digitally, an innovation necessitated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Presenting the eleventh edition of the annual LagosPhoto Festival during a virtual conference held Thursday, the organisers disclosed […]

By Prisca Sam-Duru The Wellcome Photo prize, an initiative partnering with the Africa Artist Foundation and LagosPhoto, is set to announce the shortlist of the 2020 Wellcome Art Prize competition. Comprising five categories, the shortlist will be chosen by Chair of Judges Dr. Jeremy Farrar, Director of Wellcome, and a panel of six judges: Siân […]