Nollywood Exhibition In New York City

The exhibition is called "Sharon Stone in Abuja," after a 2003 Nollywood film, and is taking place at Location One gallery in the Soho district of New York. The exhibition has been up since November 5th and will be at the gallery until January 22nd. The exhibition was created by Zina Saro-Wiwa who is a British-Nigerian film-maker and founder of AfricaLab. The idea behind this was to pays homage to the 50 year old genre of Nollywood. The exhibition contains photographs and films inspired by the themes and style of Nollywood over the years.

"Art In Life" Silent Art Auction Recap

If you didn’t make it to the Auction, you missed a very nice event for a great cause. There was good art, good food, good people, good music, and it was a overall great experience. Money was raised for kids in each program and tons of books were donated. I’ll leave you with pictures from @alice_wonder that of sum most of the night. Big S/O to my cousin Lamin for holding it done on the 1s & 2s the whole evening.

YEBies Birthday: James Amos Porter (1905-1970)

On this date in 1905 James Amos Porter was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He's known for writing the definitive book, Modern Negro Art (1943, 1969, 1992). He was also head of The Department of Art at Howard University from 1953-1970. Porter is one of the most well known painters and historian of African American art. He was instrumental as the first scholar to provide a systematic, critical analysis of African-American artists and their works of art.

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