Gabriele Finaldi, the director of the National Gallery, likes to think big. Just months after unveiling the gallery’s new entrance he announced plans for a new wing. Normally these announcements ...

Sixty-five years ago this month, Nigeria gained full independence from the British Empire. It marked a period of enormous cultural fecundity in which artists sought to create a new visual language ...

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Seventy-two reindeer hides bound by electrical power cables greet visitors to Tate Modern. Like a peculiar, 92ft-high piece of rigging, or a macabre totem pole, this is one of two large sculptures in ...

Máret Ánne Sara in front of the 92ft-high display of 72 reindeer hides that features in her Tate Modern showcase - Tate Turbine Hall Seventy-two reindeer hides bound by electrical power cables greet ...

The acclaimed Nigerian restaurateur Aji Akokomi has partnered with the Tate Modern to put on a special menu inspired by the groundbreaking new Nigerian Modernism exhibition. Nigerian Modernism, at the ...

This is "one of the greatest things to have happened, not only to my art, but to Nigerian artwork", 93-year-old painter and sculptor Bruce Onobrakpeya says as he looks around the rooms at the Tate ...

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...

With more than 250 works by over 50 artists, Tate Modern’s ambitious new exhibition explores modern art’s “dynamic evolution” in Nigeria, as the West African country transitioned from indirect ...

The gallery vibrates with atmosphere. Paintings, sculptures and prints are accompanied by the soundscapes of Lagos, threaded through by a playlist curated by Peter Adjaye. The rhythms call up the city ...