Dubbed to be a night of ‘Art & Opulence’ the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) x Gucci gala aims to celebrate Black experience. The glitzy event will take place in Cape Town, South Africa on 19 November…
AFRICA NOW: BONHAMS X CUPPY X JTO
Bonhams the privately owned British fine art auction house, recently collaborated with Nigerian oil heiresses Florence ‘DJ Cuppy’ and her sister fashion blogger Temi ‘JTO’ Otedola for their recent ‘Africa Now’ auction. The auction house has been selling African Art…
ONE TO WATCH NIGERIAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND ARTIST KADARA ENYEASI
At only 22, Nigerian Photographer Kadara Enyeasi is highly tipped as ‘one to watch’. With the creative prowess and self assurance to make it happen, his career will be an interesting one to watch unfold. The multi-talented artist whose creativity spans…
LUX AFRIQUE INTERVIEWS CONGOLESE ARTIST EDDY KAMUANGA ILUNGA
First Art Exhibition at the age of 14, debut at the Saatchi Gallery’s ‘Pangaea II’ before his 25th birthday, it is clear that Eddy Kuamanga Ilunga isn’t your average artist.; he is part of a new generation of young Africans…
THE CONTINUING RISE OF AFRICAN ART: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART FAIR 2016 AT SOMMERSET HOUSE IN LONDON
The leading international art fair dedicated to Contemporary African Art will return to London for its fourth edition, from the 6-9th of October 2016. With biannual editions in London and New York, 1:54 is the leading international art fair dedicated…
AFRICAN LUXURY IN LONDON – PATRICK MAVROS
If Tiffany & Co. had been founded in Africa by novelists H. Rider Haggard or Wilbur Smith, it would probably look something like Patrick Mavros. Mavros is that rara avis, an African luxury brand whose smart showroom on London’s Chelsea–South Kensington…