Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Council urges global participation in expo

The Director General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Otunba Olusegun Runsewe, has called on countries across the globe to partici

Why my mother didn’t want me to pursue Art

Akintobi Ezekiel Akintayo is an artist who studied Fine Art at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State. Here, he talks about his unique style,

Female African artists win big at Phillips auction in London

British-Ghanaian painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and the more established South African painter Marlene Dumas both had paintings sell to telephone bidde

2019 NLNG shortlist announced

The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature on Thursday 18 July, announced the shortlist of 11 drawn from 173 books, in the running for th

Five of my favourite poetry books

I have always enjoyed Poetry. That rhythmic play on words that is surreal and sometimes can be read to music or can even become music. Soothing, witty