Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Nigerian art student, Chancellor Ahaghotu breaks decade-old Guinness World Record record for the longest painting marathon

Nigerian art student, Chancellor Ahaghotu has broken a decade-old record for the longest painting marathon after painting for 100 consecutive hours.

Benin king notifies Netherlands Govt of FG’s gazette

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, has notified the Netherlands Government about Nigeria’s Government Gazette recognising and vesting custody and management of repatriated looted Benin artefacts in the Oba of Benin.

Check out how Nigerian artist Marcellina Akpojotor turns tiny pieces of waste Ankara fabric into art

Award-winning Nigerian artist Marcellina Akpojotor, like many in the creative industry, finds her inspiration in the everyday activities around her. But, the oddity in her work lies with the raw materials she chooses to express her themes.

Why is there so much outrage over the new $10 million statue honouring MLK and his wife?



The eldest son of civil rights leaders Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King has defended a new monument honouring his parents amid criticism of the sculpture.

Germany to return 7,000 Benin artefacts to Nigeria no later than October

At least 7,000 artefacts plundered from the Benin Kingdom are expected to be repatriated by Germany to Nigeria not later than October, Nigeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

The First Thing You See In These Pictures Will Give You Great Insight About Your Life

We absolutely advise you to take this quick and fun test to learn more about your personality and life. The rules are simple. All you need to do is to check the pictures below and tell us what you see first. 

Why I stopped attending churches in Nigeria – Chimamanda Adichie

Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said that she doesn’t attend the Catholic churches in Nigeria because activities became “way too much” about money, fundraising, and thanksgiving.

Wallace Henry Thurman the man who penned the phrase ‘the blacker the berry’

Wallace Henry Thurman was in the early 1930s acknowledged as one of the leading novelists, poets, critics, and playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance. Yet, he questioned the very existence of the movement.

Bellen Woodard, the world’s first crayon activist, named Time Magazine ‘Kid of the Year’ honoree

One’s age should never hinder them from being agents of change because as the saying goes, “if there is no seat at the table for you, create one.” Bellen Woodard, realizing there was no crayon that truly represented her skin shade, created her own multicultural crayons through her ‘More than Peach project’.

How Trayvon Martin’s brutal murder prompted a Florida artist to start an art revolution for blacks with Skittles

Beyond the pain felt with the cruel murder of 17-year-old African-American teenager Trayvon Benjamin Martin by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012, one man’s art route changed with the act. Zimmerman fatally shot Martin with the excuse he looked suspicious when the youth had gone to a convenience store and was making a return home.

Black activists took Congolese art from Dutch museum streaming the activity on Facebook

A group that says it was recovering stolen African art in Europe went to the Afrika Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and took a Congolese statue, all the while streaming their operation on Facebook Live.

Make-up 'wizard' creates incredible 3D art using his own FACE as a canvas

A make-up artist had dubbed himself 'a wizard' for creating incredible 3D optical illusions on his face. Luca Luce, from Milan, Italy, has gained more than 240,000 Instagram followers for his mind-bending artwork.

Interactive art 'theme park' opens in New York

When they established design studio Snarkitecture in 2008, Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen set out to reimagine the relationship between art and architecture, while encouraging the public to approach their spaces with the curiosity of children.

See the Chinese vase found in a pet-filled house that now goes for $9M (Photos)


A long-forgotten Chinese vase, once sold at auction for just £44 ($56), has now been sold for as much as $9 million after it was discovered in an elderly woman's country home. The art piece was found by an Amsterdam-based art consultant Johan Bosch van Rosenthal.

Artist Marianne Eriksen-Scott Constructs Enormous Bouquets Of Tissue Paper Flowers


Artist Marianne Eriksen-Scott Hansen has mastered the art of making intricate, large-scale paper blossoms. Her stunning creations often require one thousand or even more millimetre-thin pieces of tissue paper.

Make-up artist Dain Yoonplays around impressive optical illusions that can bend your mind.



The line between illusion and reality can be blurry. Make-up artist Dain Yoon plays around with that very line and uses her face as a canvas for impressive optical illusions that can bend your mind.

Artist Oleg Shupliak - 5 Incredible Surreal Pictures That Will Blow Your Mind

These surreal pictures are the work of Oleg Shuplyak who is an artist from Ukraine. He is slowly developing a reputation for creating surreal paintings with famous people from history.

Masayoshi Matsumoto - Top 10 Amazing Animal Sculptures Made From Blow Up Balloons

I bet you must have seen in circuses or children's parties, a clown creating balloon sculptures to cheer the kids.

At 10, this Kenyan art genius was drafted to teach a painting class in the US


Sheilah Sheldon-Charles is just 10, but her artistic skill has grabbed the attention of art aficionados globally. 
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