Yinka Shonibare Suspended States Serpentine Galleries: When I was a small child – many millennia ago – much of the world map was pink. At school, we were encouraged to believe these far-flung countries were lucky to benefit from our guiding colonial hand. At the end...
Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has developed opulently executed sculptures, installations, colourful collages, and theatrically staged photographs and films. Illustrated by two hundred full-colour reproductions of his work, Yinka...
London's Serpentine is poised to host a transformative encounter with British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare's multifaceted practice in a highly-anticipated solo exhibition titled "Suspended States." Representing the artist's first major showcase in over two decades...
Mr and Mrs Andrews is arguably Gainsborough's most famous painting. A young couple poses for their wedding portrait beneath an oak tree. Behind them spreads a bucolic view of the valley of the River Stour and the nearly 3000 acres that belonged to Robert Andrews. He...
Following the success of Sotheby's inaugural NFT sales in 2021, which to date have achieved $100 million since launching less than a year ago, Sotheby's announces the first dedicated live evening auction for NFTs, Punk It!, a single-lot sale of 104 CryptoPunks on 23...
Yinka Shonibare To Coordinate 253rd RA Summer Exhibition - National Gallery The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye...
Whitechapel Gallery has announced that Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962, UK) is the eighth artist to receive the prestigious annual Art Icon award, supported by the Swarovski Foundation. On Monday 22 March 2021, the award will be presented during a virtual gala...
Tate has announced that it has acquired the installation 'The British Library' by Yinka Shonibare CBE. It was initially commissioned by HOUSE 2014 and Brighton Festival and shown in the Old Reference Library at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The British Library is...
New York's Public Art Fund has unveiled 'Wind Sculpture (SG)', a new work by the Turner Prize-winning British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. It was commissioned for Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast entrance to Central Park. “This is the perfect metaphor...