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21 Jan
Organisers of Berlinale Talents, a major side event of the Berlin International Film Festival said they look forward to welcoming 202 selected filmmakers to Berlin from February 17 to 22, 2024.
10 Jan
Gregory Nnamdi Nnabike Mbajiorgu stood by the side of a vehicle at Peace Mass Transit Park in Nsukka. He was waiting for the guest of renowned sculptor, Professor Emeritus, El Anatsui, who was being installed as Ikedire of Ihe In Nsukka, the day after.
7 Jan
Acclaimed art collector, Yemisi Shyllon, has acquired the artwork of Ori Agbe, a poem that popular performance poet, Akeem Lasisi, dedicated to the Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka.
6 Jan
When the announcement was made of the recently held celebrity boxing match between weird Afro pop artiste, Portable, aka Zazzu and Nollywood star cum skit maker, Charles Okocha, most people thought it would be just some razzmatazz show filled with all noises and all.
3 Jan
Despite plan by government to earn $100 billion from the creative industries by 2030, there are indications that this may not be achieved at all, as building of a national gallery in Abuja, a national museum in Abuja
3 Jan
Professor Oseloka Osadebe, a pioneer member of the famous Zaria Art Society, has died. He passed on Wednesday, December 27, in Jackson Mississippi, United States of America, where he had lived since 1998.
31 Dec
Before he left for the United Kingdom to study for his master’s degree in illustration in 2020, Oluwaseye Sanyaolu trained and worked as a freelance illustrator.
24 Dec
I want this small boy (pointing to the young Simon, standing before them), to be in ABU (Ahmadu Bello Universit),” Yinka Odulami casually told his close friend and a senior lecturer at the university at the time, Luca Tokan Bentu
24 Dec
In line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and as part of efforts aimed at discovering latent artistic skills of young Nigerians, TotalEnergies in partnership with NNPC Limited, Sapetro, CNOOC and Prime recently organized the second edition of the Open House Art Exhibition.
20 Dec
Foremost sculptor and environmental artist, Dotun Popoola, recently delivered a sculptural piece, a Lion, commissioned by Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, the Kusenla III of Ikate Kingdom.
20 Dec
A special art competition sponsored by Lions Club around the world for youths in schools and youth groups these past 30 years ended recently with Francis Nduchukwu Odupete clinching the first position. The second prize went to Kreem Hamed, while Asuquo Divine came third.
17 Dec
When creativity is inherited from a line of creative forebears, the works of that artist appear to be magical.

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