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Go On. Get Both.

Go On. Get Both.

You know the feeling. You spent an embarrassing amount of time pretending you were “still deciding.” Every evening, after a cup of ginger tea, you’d reopen the artdey page for...

Go On. Get Both.

You know the feeling. You spent an embarrassing amount of time pretending you were “still deciding.” Every evening, after a cup of ginger tea, you’d reopen the artdey page for...

The Things I Grabbed Before the Water Did

The Things I Grabbed Before the Water Did

I woke up because something sounded... wrong. You know how your brain immediately starts making terrible guesses in the middle of the night? Maybe someone was knocking on the gate....

The Things I Grabbed Before the Water Did

I woke up because something sounded... wrong. You know how your brain immediately starts making terrible guesses in the middle of the night? Maybe someone was knocking on the gate....

The Homes We Remember Are Rarely Empty

The Homes We Remember Are Rarely Empty

Close your eyes and picture the home you grew up in. There’s a good chance you aren’t remembering the floor plan or the colour of the walls. Instead, you’re perhaps...

The Homes We Remember Are Rarely Empty

Close your eyes and picture the home you grew up in. There’s a good chance you aren’t remembering the floor plan or the colour of the walls. Instead, you’re perhaps...

When Style Becomes Language

When Style Becomes Language

There’s a recurring experience I sometimes have when encountering new pieces from familiar artists. I’m sure you’ve had it too. You recognise a painting before reading the artist’s name. It...

When Style Becomes Language

There’s a recurring experience I sometimes have when encountering new pieces from familiar artists. I’m sure you’ve had it too. You recognise a painting before reading the artist’s name. It...

The Stories Beneath the Surface

The Stories Beneath the Surface

Njideka Akunyili Crosby has built a career creating exactly that kind of work. Her paintings are layered with memories, relationships, histories, and quiet moments that reveal themselves gradually. What appears...

The Stories Beneath the Surface

Njideka Akunyili Crosby has built a career creating exactly that kind of work. Her paintings are layered with memories, relationships, histories, and quiet moments that reveal themselves gradually. What appears...

The city in Yellow and Black

The city in Yellow and Black

There are very few symbols that capture Lagos’s reality better than the Danfo. With its bright yellow body and unmistakable twin black stripes running along its sides, the Danfo has...

The city in Yellow and Black

There are very few symbols that capture Lagos’s reality better than the Danfo. With its bright yellow body and unmistakable twin black stripes running along its sides, the Danfo has...