In the FT:
Fair director Tokini Peterside on her ‘unapologetically commercial’ approach
Art X Lagos holds an unusual distinction: it is almost certainly the only high-end art fair to have begun life as a classroom assignment. Tokini Peterside, its 31-year-old founder, started mapping out the first international art fair in west Africa for the entrepreneurship portion of her MBA in 2015. Within a year and a half it was a reality: a 14-gallery show complete with all the voguish trimmings of the contemporary art fair — curated talks, interactive projects and a prize voted for by Instagram “likes”...[more]
