Rele Gallery, best known for its outpost in Lagos, Nigeria and its commitment to emerging young talents in contemporary visual arts, has launched its second location stateside in Los Angeles, California.
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This week’s edition focuses on a duo of visual artists debuting two in-person exhibitions: Amoako Boafo and Mosie Romney.
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A growing movement is brewing in Accra led by curator Travis Obeng-Casper, who formalized what began as a casual meeting of friends into a blossoming ecosystem of Ghanaian creatives.
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This year saw artist Avery Williamson parlay her creative eye into the launch of a hand-crafted jewelry line taking the imperfectly perfect geometric shapes that dance across her canvases to the earlobe for the most chic accessory this summer.
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Andrea Iyamah’s Autumn 2018 campaign puts its iconic swimwear silhouettes front and center of sentimental backdrops inspired by its creative director’s “fondest memories as a Nigerian child.”
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Congratulations are in order for designer Kerby Jean-Raymond of American label Pyer Moss. He claimed the top prize (and $400,000) at the CFDA - Vogue Fashion Fund’s annual awards in New York.
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We are beyond pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition The Inverse Color Perspective: The Age of the Black Model by artist Freddie L. Rankin II that captures 42 black models from throughout the diaspora behind the scenes of fashion weeks in New York, Milan, and Paris.
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Thank you for blessing us. That was the refrain overheard by one patron to artist Simone Leigh at the opening of her highly anticipated exhibition at the Luhring Augustine Gallery in Chelsea.
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Bolivia. Tenesar. Jamaica. These are just a few of the places the team behind contemporary brand ASHYA looks to for inspiration for their two-year old enterprise famously known for its luxurious leather belt bags.
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Contemporary artist Banele Khoza opened his design workshop and art gallery BKhz Studio earlier this month at 68 Juta Street right off the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Braamfontein.
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It was a fortuitous group exhibition curated by multi-hyphenate artist Arthur Jafa that led Frida Orupabo to Ming Smith in a show at London's Serpentine Gallery. Almost eight months later, Orupabo is beaming at her first US solo exhibition.
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The latest exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art is of a fashionable variety. PROTOChic took in the exhibition for a special preview and compiled a list of the best diaspora designers included.
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This week's edition focuses on photographer-cum-designer Trevor Stuurman, who is celebrating his first solo exhibition HOME in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Coast To Coast - Uncovering Nigerian-Made Fabrics, a new mini-series from Modé Aderinokun's STUDIO OF MODÉ, is tackling a long intriguing topic of indigenous fabrics in Nigeria.
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In a few weeks, Sotheby's Auction House will host its inaugural sale of modern and contemporary African art.
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It's about time is the only answer to the quickly spreading hashtag #HowAboutNOW regarding Nigeria's inclusion in the 57-year old Biennale Arte 2017 come this May.
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What a childhood to grow up in a home with a father who led the Compton, California chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. That and much more is the study of Sadie Barnette's first solo exhibition entitled Do Not Destroy.
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Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby sold her work Drown for a record $1,092,500 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York.
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