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

Nigerian Dr Fola David breaks Guinness World Record for the largest painting

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Nigerian Dr makes history, breaks Guinness World Record for largest painting.  David’s remarkable achievement has garnered widespread acclai...

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

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

Benin king notifies Netherlands Govt of FG’s gazette

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

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

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Award-winning Nigerian artist Marcellina Akpojotor, like many in the creative industry, finds her inspiration in the everyday activities aro...

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

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

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

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At least 7,000 artefacts plundered from the Benin Kingdom are expected to be repatriated by Germany to Nigeria not later than October, Niger...

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

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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 t...

Why I stopped attending churches in Nigeria – Chimamanda Adichie

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Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has said that she doesn’t attend the Catholic churches in Nigeria because activities became “wa...

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

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Wallace Henry Thurman was in the early 1930s acknowledged as one of the leading novelists, poets, critics, and playwrights of the Harlem Ren...

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

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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...

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

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Beyond the pain felt with the cruel murder of 17-year-old African-American teenager Trayvon Benjamin Martin by George Zimmerman on February ...

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

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A group that says it was recovering stolen African art in Europe went to the Afrika Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and took a Congolese st...

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

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A make-up artist had dubbed himself 'a wizard' for creating incredible 3D optical illusions on his face. Luca Luce, from Milan, I...

Interactive art 'theme park' opens in New York

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When they established design studio Snarkitecture in 2008, Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen set out to reimagine the relationship between ar...

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

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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 discover...

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

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Artist Marianne Eriksen-Scott Hansen has mastered the art of making intricate, large-scale paper blossoms. Her stunning creations often re...

Inside £20m Florida mansion that comes with a Star Trek-themed home cinema.

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

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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 canva...

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

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These surreal pictures are the work of Oleg Shuplyak who is an artist from Ukraine. He is slowly developing a reputation for creating surrea...

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

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