My exhibition review in publication “African Arts” on George Osodi’s photographs.
Royals and Regalia inside the Palace of Nigeria’s Monarchs. I am thrilled that my review of George Osodi’s exhibition curated by Christa Clarke – Royals and Regalia Inside the Palace of Nigeria’s Monarchs: Recent photographs by George Osodi – at the Newark Museum in 2015 has just come out in the publication African Arts, Fall […]
Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum
. Creativity, fecundity and the magical: Zina celebrates the women from the Niger Delta. Barely back from Lagos I turn around and fly to Houston not too thrilled about being on a plane again but very much looking forward to attending Zina Saro-Wiwa’s Mangrove Banquet at the Blaffer Museum where she is having her […]
George Osodi: Nigeria Monarchs
George Osodi who is internationally famous for his powerful photographic series on the damage being done on the environment and life in the oil rich Niger delta, is now celebrating Nigerian cultural heritage. His new series Nigeria Monarchs on view in a splendid exhibition Royals & Regalia: Inside the palaces of Nigeria’s Monarchs at the Newark […]
Ground-breaking photographs from Port Harcourt: “Men of the Ogele” by Zina Saro -Wiwa
Men of the Ogele! a photographic series by Zinadu Saro-Wiwa, 2014. While getting her pop-up gallery in Port Harcourt up and running, Zina Saro-Wiwa has been focusing also on her own work which is to be shown at the Seattle Museum. She first set out to photographs the Ogele dancers who perform in local masquerades. […]
Toyin Odutola: Close and Personal
I love it when I see an artist become more ambitious in terms of art making and take a big leap in a new direction. Toyin Odutola’s latest work showing at Jack Shainman is exactly that. Toyin specializes in drawings and portraiture but her ink-layering process is very unique. In the past she worked almost […]
Hair matters in Chimamanda Adiche’s novel “Americanah”
Listen well: African women are talking about their hair. I just finished Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche’s novel, Americanah, and was totally taken by her wonderful vivid description of a hair-braiding salon in Trenton New Jersey. I never realized it took six hours to have one’s hair braided and that it hurt so much! Being a person […]
Artist Nnenna Okore in her studio
Conversation with Nigerian sculptor Nnenna Okore in her studio The first time I saw Nnenna Okore’s work was at the Newark Museum and I found it very poetic and compelling. Hung from the ceiling, transparent strips of shredded burlap dyed with clay like color, felt tactile and earthy yet paradoxically also ethereal and majestic. That […]
Rotimi Fani-Kayode: “Nothing to Lose” in Chelsea
Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Nothing to Lose at the Walther Collection Project Space. I was thrilled to see that finally Rotimi Fani-Kayode was getting a proper showing in New York. This tribute to his photographic work is long overdue. Indeed he was seminal in his portraiture of black African homosexuality. “The first solo exhibition in New York […]
Nigerian High Fashion Week in Lagos: African Designers are Stars
Writing this blog is taking me on my own personal journey of discovery. I found out this week that FASHION is thriving on the African continent. Last week was fashion week in Lagos, the host of the Arise Africa Fashion Show where seventy seven African designers were represented. Well established and internationally known African designers […]
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