Your Art Doesn't Become More Valuable Just Because It's Expensive

By Arts & Culture Place Editorial Team

The same piece of advice keeps being handed to artists, dressed up as wisdom: if it's too accessible, people won't value it. Price high. Restrict access. Let scarcity do the work of convincing people your art matters.

Chika Idu’s 'Pure Water' Submerged Figures, Surfaced Truths

By Udemma Chukwuma 

Chika Idu’s Pure Water, a solo exhibition, returns to a recurring subject in the painter’s work: the human figure suspended beneath water. But this time, the imagery moves into sharper, more critical territory. His figures drift weightlessly through clear water, rendered with a thick, gestural application of paint that makes the surface appear almost alive. There is something serene and liberating about these bodies as they move through the water, yet beneath that beauty sits a more complicated question about purity, freedom and the world we inhabit.

In Charcoal, Edosa Ogiugo Captures Movement

By Udemma Chukwuma

Some drawings only work if the artist trusts their own hand: no erasing, no second-guessing, just a willingness to let a line be wrong in service of being alive. Six recent charcoal studies from Nigerian artist Edosa Ogiugo make that case well. And one thing you cannot take away from Ogiugo is the bold strokes in his painting and drawing.

One Artist’s Experiment That Changed Nigerian Art

By Joy Eke 

Title: Madam Kofo (acrylic on canvas, 2020 by Abiola Akande

Araism Movement is marking 20 years of its formal existence with a special anniversary lecture examining its place and influence within Nigeria’s visual arts landscape. Organised by Ara Studio, the lecture, titled “Araism: Its Impacts on Nigeria's Visual Arts Space,” will take place on Thursday, August 27, 2026, at 11 a.m. at the first floor of Kongi's Gallery, Freedom Park, Old Prison Ground, Broad Street, Lagos, Nigeria.

ORI Brings 30 Nigerian Sculptors Together at Quintessence Gallery

By Udemma Chukwuma 

What can the human head tell us about who we are, what we inherit and who we are becoming? These questions lie at the heart of ORI II, the second edition of the biennial of contemporary Nigerian sculpture, which brings 30 Nigerian sculptors, masters and rising talents alike to Quintessence Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria.