Los Angeles, United States | AFP | A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork — believed to be …
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Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E NANTABA | Most people know Sandra Suubi as the girl who won the Airtel Trace competition 2015 and went on to launch a fledgling music career. Not many know that Suubi combines her music with art. She is an eco-artist whose work has featured in art …
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Top artists, rural women, and foreign activists create perfect space to find out at Makerere Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Makerere Art Gallery in Kampala is hosting an exciting show titled `Taboo Exhibition’. Part of the thrill is the novelty of it creation, the nature of its installations, and the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ugandan German Cultural Society has organised a children’s festival May 6th, one of several educational projects aimed at strengthening and promoting the growth of local art and the bilateral co-operation between the people of Uganda and Germany. The Azulato Children’s Festival takes place for the first …
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Serenityscapes as metaphor for self-freedom Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | Whenever regular art gallery goers around Kampala are confronted with a striking painting of a beautiful waterscape, associations immediately connect it to Edison Mugalu. This impressionist artist’s name has become so synonymous with the subject that many cannot imagine him …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Latvian performance artist Arturs Bērziņš has managed to spark a heated debate about the ethics of his latest project, where he sliced bits of flesh from the backs of a man and a woman, cooked them in a frying pan and fed it back to …
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Mzili, Ndema, Karungi showcase ideology Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In recent times, there has been an urge by artists working on the African continent and the diaspora to evoke a Pan African spirit into their art. In Uganda, two events have evidently explored this concept: `Another RoadMap for Africa …
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The open expressions of young artists Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | An exhibition of student’s art is bound to be interesting. Occasionally, some students defy their inexperience and produce great art. Usually, however, gaps in art creation and presentation become perfect talking points for gallery visitors and possible dampeners for …
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`Mona Lisa’ fetches U.S$ 1.68m at auction Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | A painting of an African princess from Nigeria’s Ife; the spiritual heartland of the Yoruba tribe, recently went under the hammer for more than U.S$ 1.68 million at the Bonhams Auction House in London. The African Mona Lisa …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dain Yoon uses only makeup, face paint and brushes to make her own face and body a canvas for mind-bending visual effects. The 24-year old who attended some of the most prestigious art schools in South Korea decided to focus on ‘illusion art’, a …
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