Some visual artists believe that having many of their works in circulation undermines the financial values of the works. To curb that, they reduce the number of works they produce and release into the ...

Sometimes when I think of Eden I remember a particular artwork on the futile attempts by the first couple at covering their naked bodies. The work in reference is a rendition on Adam, his wife and the ...

Abuja — Womanhood was the centrepiece of Nigeria's master-artist Chief Tola Wewe's two-week of electrifying artistic expression at Orisun Art Gallery, Abuja. His exhibition of Hieroglyphics of ...

Last Sunday, Orisun Gallery exhibited ‘Hieroglyphics of Womanhood’, a solo exhibition of international award-winning veteran artist, Chief Tola Wewe. Featuring 24 art pieces, 22 by the artist, and two ...

Catalog of an exhibition of paintings held at the Russian Culture Center, Lagos, Nigeria, 1996. Includes essay "Images of women in Tola Wewe's paintings" by Kunle Filani.

“Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value.” These words by the late Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo open Threads of Time ...

What looked like a serendipitous encounter between art curator and artist Tola Wewe sparked a creative partnership that ultimately blossomed into a recently-launched coffee-table book on Wewe's ...

In the late 1980s, amid mounting political conflict in Nigeria, five graduates of the University of Ife (from 1987 forward, Obafemi Awolowo University) formed an art collective named the Ona Group.

Lagos-based African Artists’ Foundation, established in 2007, announces two new exhibitions as part of their 2022 fall program, encouraging the expansion of African art on its continent and beyond. As ...