Insights
How we acquired a rare 1950s painting by Vincent Akwete is a story about careful research, patient stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with…
Buildings carry more than people, weather, and daily activity. They hold systems of belief, family structures, craft knowledge, environmental adaptation, and…
Rotimi Fani-Kayode developed a visual language in which the body becomes a site of memory, desire, spirituality, and conflict. His photographs are carefully…
OYASAF’s Annual Art Competition gives emerging artists an opportunity to present their ideas within a platform devoted to Nigerian and African art. For…
Yoruba art often joins beauty, knowledge, ethics, and ritual purpose. Within this tradition, objects are not always made simply to be viewed. They may also…
The story of the OYASAF collection is also a story about how private passion can become public cultural value. Founded around the vision of Omooba Yemisi…
A curator’s day at the Omooba Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon Art Foundation rarely follows a single routine. The work moves between close looking, careful…
Across Nigeria, sculpture is being reshaped by materials that were once dismissed as rubbish. Discarded metal, plastic containers, automobile parts, electrical…
Lagos has become one of Africa’s most dynamic art capitals, shaped by a dense network of artists, galleries, collectors, curators, museums, universities,…
Art history depends on access to artworks, yet objects rarely explain themselves. Their meaning develops through artists’ biographies, exhibition records,…