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Inside the art exhibition where broken things become new possibilities

Nairobi, Aug. 6 -- The Great Repair exhibition unfurls across Nairobi like a living thing. The exhibition is anchored in the basement of The Mall in Westlands, spilling onto a mezzanine floor, and ech... Read More


Where the broken heal and become new possibilities

Nairobi, Aug. 6 -- The Great Repair exhibition unfurls across Nairobi like a living thing. The exhibition is anchored in the basement of The Mall in Westlands, spilling onto a mezzanine floor, and ech... Read More


The self-taught artist who rejects a signature style

Nairobi, July 30 -- Walking through the National Museum, where Harrison Karanja's exhibition All of Us at Once unfolds, it is hard not to appreciate the sheer range and diversity from a gifted artist ... Read More


How a Sudanese artist is rebuilding his life in Kenya

Nairobi, July 23 -- During the opening of his exhibition, Indigo Hypoxia, at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, Sudanese artist Sannad Shreef spent the entire evening with his face covered. Even as visit... Read More


Artist Yusuf Mirumbe showcases 'Mothers of Mathare' in the US solo exhibition

Nairobi, July 16 -- From the cohort of emerging artists last showcased at One Off Art Contemporary Gallery last year, it is Yusuf Mirumbe that the deities of art seem to have been kindest to. From hi... Read More


Curating change: How Tewa built an art business without a permanent gallery

Nairobi, July 10 -- Thaddeus Wamukoya, or Tewa as he is popularly known, first made a name for himself as a gallery manager, a role he held for three years. It was during this time that he learnt abou... Read More


How young Kenyans are discovering the joy of buying art

Nairobi, July 2 -- When Valary Mumbo started tagging along with her artist friend, Rosie Olang', to art events and exhibitions, little did she know it would lead her down the rabbit hole of art collec... Read More


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