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Booth of SMO Contemporary at Art X Lagos 2025 featuring a large central painting of four robed figures reading illuminated books at a table, flanked by two white sculptures on pedestals—one of a figure holding a balloon and basket of fruit, the other of two figures embracing—with pastel balloons and gallery lighting against white walls.

Liquidity is Not Permanence: Lagos and the Limits of Market Infrastructure

Despite a growing local commercial scene and a major retrospective of Nigerian Modernism at Tate in London, Nigeria's largest city has yet to prove the durability of its art market

Sabo Kpade

Gibellina and the Limits of Art-Led Regeneration

Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed

Stephanie Gavan