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At 87, Liz is just getting serious

Nairobi, June 25 -- At 87, Liz Campbell has gone full circle. She has outlived three of her husbands, seen the gains made by the first civil rights movement in the US by her first husband and his frie... Read More


'In This Valley of Dying Stars': Jess Atieno's meditation on memory and modernity

Nairobi, June 18 -- Jess Atieno's work at the African Arts Gallery, where she is holding an exhibition titled In This Valley of Dying Stars, sticks out not just because of how immersed in the black cu... Read More


Rasto Cyprian's rise: 24-year-old painter gaining gallery attention

Nairobi, June 11 -- There is a blurry line between genius and madness that Rasto Cyprian shows in his art. His artworks depict a man who loses himself in colours and the absurdity of the concepts in h... Read More


At 87, Geraldine Robarts still paints to tell her stories

Nairobi, June 4 -- At 87, Geraldine Robarts is perhaps the oldest living visual artist in Kenya. But her paintbrush isn't drying up any time soon. This weekend, some of her works will be showcased at... Read More


How trio turned studio into big art movement

Nairobi, May 28 -- Three painters, disgruntled by the bureaucratic eccentricities of the traditional art scene, joined brushes together to form a collective pact that would come to be known as Brush T... Read More


Wako's journey from stable boy to a globe-trotting horseman

Nairobi, May 26 -- We meet a few hours before his flight back to Denmark at the Ngong Racecourse, a place that feels like home to Ramadhan Wako. Before moving to Denmark to work with horses that are ... Read More


Enter the 'Chorus of Beings': Show casts a spotlight on Kenya's invisible prisons

Nairobi, May 14 -- At the One Off Art Gallery, prison uniforms dominate the canvases in Chorus of Beings, the new exhibition by artists Newton Eshivachi and Paul Njihia. The striped outfits appear aga... Read More


'Fragments': Thom Ogonga opens doors for emerging artists

Nairobi, May 7 -- Thom Ogonga, one of Nairobi's understated curators, is a brilliant visual artist who also connects hidden talent with galleries that might otherwise overlook them. At the One-Off Ar... Read More


Peter Kamwathi honours Patrick Mukabi's lasting legacy

Nairobi, April 30 -- It isn't over till the fat lady refuses to sing. What it means is that the shows must go on until the last available paint brush dries up. This is the biggest honour that the art... Read More


'Deprivation': Where metal carries Sudan war memories

Nairobi, April 23 -- Adlan Yousif's exhibition unfolds like an unsettling walk through a carefully tended war cemetery. Contorted figures, assembled from fragments of scrap metal, stand frozen in sile... Read More