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=== Art === [[File:Outside Nike Art Gallery (4202980259).jpg|thumb|The Nike Art Gallery]] The ''[[Nike Art Gallery]]'' is an [[art gallery]] in Lagos owned by [[Nike Davies-Okundaye]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 October 2014 |title=Lagos' Best Kept Secret |url=https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/celebrities/nike-art-gallery-lagos-best-kept-secret/4etmpel |access-date=27 June 2023 |website=Pulse Nigeria |language=en}}</ref> The gallery is probably the largest of its kind in West Africa. It is housed in a five-storey building and has a collection of about 8,000 different works of art by various Nigerian artists such as Chief Josephine Oboh Macleod.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 May 2021 |title=Chief Josephine Oboh-Macleod: Art creator, connoisseur, politician, activist |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/05/chief-josephine-oboh-macleod-art-creator-connoisseur-politician-activist/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |publisher=Vanguard newspapers}}</ref> [https://www.reddoorgallery.co/ ''Red Door Gallery''] specializes in African contemporary art. The ''Ovuomaroro Studio and Gallery'' is one of the oldest art galleries in Lagos.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ovuomaroro Studio and Gallery |url=https://www.businesslist.com.ng/company/100229/ovuomaroro-studio-and-gallery |access-date=1 July 2023 |website=BusinessList.com.ng |date=20 May 2011 |language=en}}</ref> The ''Alexis Galleries'', owned by Patty Chidiac-Mastrogiannis, is located on Victoria Island.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About us β Alexis Galleries |url=https://alexisgalleries.com/about-us/ |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> Since its foundation in 2011, Alexis Galleries have been engaged in the presentation and dissemination of Nigerian contemporary styles including; painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture. It aims to strengthen and support the Nigerian Art Circle. In 2002, Lagos was one of the African platform cities for the art exhibition ''[[Documenta11|Documenta 11]]''.
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