Newly released Louis Vuitton Fall/Winter 2021 Airplane Bag designed by Virgil Abloh has it’s price pegged at $39,000. A Twitter user quickly pointed out a pre-owned 1968 Cessna airplane available on eBay for nearly $7,000 less! Which would you buy, bag or airplane?
Retro art is an undeniably attractive genre, and it has grown of late on the African art scene. But thep op-African art of Nigerian artist and illustrator @williamschechet is a genuine tour de force. The mostly black and white characters, compellingly real and yet stably abstract, seem to have slipped Read more…
Every day millions of people find their way into musems around the world, looking not only to see but to experience art. Some visit, cross the museum’s name off their bucket list and move on to the next, while some are regulars at their favourite art sanctuary. But which (art) Read more…
Few figures loom so preeminently over a domain as much as Tao Yuanming does over Asian poetry. He is quite simply perpetual. And yet many in large parts of the world are quite oblivious to his life and work. Also known as Tao Qian (not to be confused with the Read more…
Olamide Ogunade is a Nigerian contemporary artist. His multilayered pieces are produced with a number of techniques and tools, including drawing with pencil or ballpoint pen, and painting with oil or acrylic. More than the vibrant interplay of colour and visual depth in his art, Ogunade’s compositional talent allows him Read more…
A few months ago as we worked tirelessly to find footing as a publication and a niche to identify with, we were confronted by two difficult facts; one, new magazines die quickly, even when they are well funded and grounded in a niche that values them- and two, the landscape Read more…
German and Nigerian officials have begun historic talks that will likely see ancient Benin artefacts currently in Germany returned to their original home in Nigeria. As reported by Artnet, the head of the German foreign ministry’s culture department, Andreas Görgen, last week met with Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Read more…
For the first time ever, you can hear what Mars sounds like in a brief moment. NASA’s Perseverance Rover has captured the first audio recordings from the surface of the red planet, and if you’ve always wondered what music Martian aliens could be listening to, you’d be surprised. Since arriving Read more…
Auction house Sotheby’s has announced it is exhibiting a painting by Dutch great Vincent Van Gogh that had remained in private collection for a century. The landscape painting, Scène de rue à Montmartre (Street Scene in Montmartre) (completed in 1887) is one of Van Gogh’s productions during his time in Read more…
Legendary French electronic music and dance duo Daft Punk have announced their retirement and split. They broke the news through an 8-minute video titled ‘epilogue’ on the group’s official YouTube channel. The group’s longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the split to Variety, but declined further comment. The video shows the Read more…
