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Arthouse Contemporary holds legacy exhibition for Zaria rebels. The exhibition tagged Zaria Art Society: Celebration of Legacies, will take place from October 26 to November 15, 2019 at the Kia Showroom, 308 Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The special exhibition will highlight the revered founding fathers of contemporary Nigerian…
With their heads still held high, Isilomo and Avala who became the first causalities of the eviction game of the 2019 Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) held high their heads even as they crashed out of the popular reality show broadcasted throughout Africa. During the first eviction game of the 2019…
Bet9Ja is taking a bet on popular reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBN). As the much anticipated reality show is set to kick off this weekend, Olufemi Osobajo, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, Bet9ja, has revealed why the company is supporting the popular show.According to Osobajo, “Our sponsorship of Big…
Have you ever thought about what it would like to walk in the shoes and delve into the lives of the one percent of the Lagos affluent even for just one day? The new film by Bolanle Austen-Peters allows you to do that. The Bling Lagosians is a powerful story…
Twin-Waters tower located on Oniru Road, Victoria Island was a beehive of activities on a sunny Tuesday morning. It is only one man in the movie industry that could pull the caliber of people including media men and women to the private screening of his movie, Kunle Afolayan. For anyone…
Affordable Art Auction has raked in N27 million as new artists make the top sale. The Affordable Art auction organised annually by Arthouse Contemporary took place on February 21, 2019, at the Kia Showroom, Lagos. The Auction which featured 97 lots from emerging and established artists, the auction brought in…
You can by affordable art at Arthouse Contemporary’s fourth annual Affordable Art Auction on February 23, 2019, 6 PM, at the Kia Showroom, 308 Adeola Odeku Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. The auction preview, Art Night Out, will feature art, music and live performances. The Affordable Art Auction aims to engage…
Nigerian international singer, Aṣa brought the house down at the maiden edition of the Spice TV Lifestyle Honours. Opening her set with the single ‘Fire on the Mountain’ from her self-titled debut album, the audience warmed up to her as models donning pieces from the designer, Torlowei walked the runway.…
Arthouse Contemporary 10th Anniversary With 21st edition of November Art Auction. The auction of Modern and Contemporary Art, comes up on Monday, November 19, 2018, by 6pm, at the Kia Showroom, 308 Adeola Odeku Street, Lagos, Nigeria. Founded in 2007, Arthouse Contemporary is an international auction house that specialises in…
FUNKE OSAE-BROWN Famous painting of an Ile-Ife Princess Tutu, by late artist, Ben Enwonwu, which was sold at the whooping sum of £1, 208, 000, at the Bohams Auction of African Art earlier in March, is showing at the ongoing Artx Lagos, which opened on Friday evening with a cocktail.…
Nollywood actress, Ufoma McDermott’s new comedy movie, ‘What Just Happened?’ will soon hit the cinemas. The hilarious movie which will be in the cinemas across the country on September 14, 2018 features some of the finest comedians and versatile Nollywood actors and actresses like Funny bone, Segun Arinze, Toyin Abraham,…
FUNKE OSAE-BROWN If famous Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo Kuti were to be alive, he never would have considered it thinkable that the President of one of the world’s super powers would ever pay a personal visit to the Afrika Shrine located at Agidingbi area of Lagos State. But on the…
The Nigerian art industry is experiencing a new wave of young collectors who see art as a safe store of wealth. They are discreetly acquiring the works of new contemporary artists and making art collection a real deal writes FUNKE OSAE-BROWN. His office is housed in a modest building off…
Arthouse Contemporary makes a sum of N233,062,500 million from the twentieth edition of its auction of Modern and Contemporary Art on June 4, 2018 held at the Kia Showroom, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Featuring 105 lots of leading master works from the modern period alongside cutting-edge contemporary art from the…
Abolore Sobayo’s Liberation statue of Fela has generated a lot of controversies, but it is a brilliant work that has brought him fame says FUNKE OSAE-BROWN Dressed in a blue fitted Kaftan, Abolore Sobayo stood by his close pal, Asiri, in the warm October sun at the Allen roundabout, perhaps…
It will all be about watercolour at the Spring edition of The Content Exhibition put together yearly by Adam & Eve Homeware. The third edition, The Content which will open on April 1 and run throughout the Easter month will feature a top range of artworks that use watercolour as…
Approximately N26.7million worth of artworks were sold at the annual Arthouse Contemporary Affordable Art Auction which held on March 3, 2018, at the Kia Showroom, Lagos. Featuring 107 lots from emerging and established contemporary artists, the auction brought in a total of NGN 26,668,000 during the evening’s sale, with 62…
FUNKE OSAE-BROWN Guests started trickling into one of the meeting rooms at The Wheatbaker Ikoyi for what could be termed the auction of the century. The stage was set for bidders to join the live broadcast for the Bonhams African Art auction from London. Gradually, the room began to…
ADEDOYIN JOHNSON Missing but found Ben Enwonwu masterpiece, ‘Tutu’ sells at world record breaking £1,000,000 at the Bonhams African Art auction held in London on Wednesday but broadcast live to bidders at The Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos. Previously estimated between £200,000-300,000, Enwonwu’s ‘Tutu’ breaks a new world record for Nigerian art.…
Yinka Shonibare’s new work, ‘Wind Sculpture’, (SG) I commissioned by Public Art Fund is now available for viewing at the entrance to Central Park at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in New York on Tuesday 7th March 2018 to October 2018. This new sculpture by Shonibare is created from fibreglass…
