Blackface or Plain African Expression? The Rise of African Subjects in Contemporary Portraiture
Are African Artists diminishing themselves by painting Blackface paintings or are we simply seeing more African subjects in portraiture?...
The Grandiosity of art juxtaposed with the boastfulness of hip hop
The use of previously royal spaces for the self-worship and self-proclaiming predicate of self-made importance is both a show of power...
From Hoarders Paradise to White Cube
Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art The Yemisi Shyllon Museum is a non-profit organisation set up by Yemisi Shyllon, the prince of Ake in...
Exonerating the persona of the artist
A comparison between the lifestyle of the artist in Nigeria and the West In my meandering discovery of art that started as far back as...
Should we raise our daughters Feminists when gender roles are already in their favour?
A response to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book: Dear Ijeawele, A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions One thing modern Feminism seems...
State-of-the-art Lagos: Young Contemporaries 2017
I’d like to first of all say Happy New Year to you, it’s a new year and the perfect time for a refresh. I am putting some life back into...
Inside Abstract Future
Hannah Remz Curation hosted a private exhibition at the end of 2015. Here is your personal invite into what was a beautiful evening of...
Challenging Conventions in Art
Abstract The first chapter in Howard S. Becker’s book entitled Art Worlds (1982) covers conventions in an epistemological way. He then...
Jean Michel Basquiat: Demystifying Myths
Abstract In the two films Basquiat (1996) directed by Julian Schnabel and Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) directed by Tamra Davis we...
A limited Western Perspective: Underlying politics in Fine Art and in Art Worlds.
Abstract An issue in art is that there is limited scope in defining exactly what art is and there is erosion when it comes to art...
