Art and Ideas

Art and Ideas

Blue canvas with white line sold for N8.7billion

An abstract painting by New York artist Barnett Newman that features a field of blue paint crossed by a ragged white line sold recently for $43.8 mill

3-Year-Old DJ wins SA’s Got Talent

After blowing television audiences and DJ Fresh away last month as the youngest contestant to appear on SA’s Got Talent, toddler South African D

French artist pretends to be Chinese to sell his works

For someone who cites his “oriental identity” as a source of inspiration, China-based artist Tao Hongjing is remarkably white. According t

There is no art work without a story – Chidi Nwankwo

How do you work?    As a student and public servant, I share my time between the two. When not at my job as a public servant, I take ti

Ken Saro Wiwa: Twenty years after

Ken Saro Wiwa came to limelight first as a writer with his book Soza Boy, a chronicle of the Nigerian Civil War. His television show Basi and Co, was