Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

Benin sculpture is more naturalistic than most African totems, as evidenced in 30 of the original bronze plaques lent by the British Museum and currently on view at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Ukraine defiant: George Packer, Anne Applebaum, and Franklin Foer on democracy’s front lines. Plus the myopia generation, the Benin bronzes’ contested return, Ian McEwan’s anti-memoir ...

The Benin bronzes — beautiful pieces of art and brutal testimonies of colonial history — are a collection of artifacts made by the Edo peoples from the Kingdom of Benin, ...

In addition to the National Museum of African Art’s collection, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has a collection of 20 Benin bronzes. Provenance research for that collection has ...

The Benin Bronzes reclaimed by Robert Owen Lehman Jr. include a 16th-century copper alloy sculpture of a figure holding a spear. Credit... Robert Owen Lehman Collection/Courtesy Museum of Fine ...

The men, an art dealer called Lance Entwistle and two experts from the auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, recognised it as an early Benin Bronze head, perhaps depicting an oba, or king, from the 16th ...

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --A highly anticipated database of the Benin Bronzes, a massive trove of art and cultural artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Benin by the British empire in 1897, launched Friday.

Three pieces of Benin Bronzes are displayed at Museum for Art and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018.

As 2025 began, we wondered if looted art would return home this year—be it paintings illegally seized by Nazis, the Parthenon Marbles, or the Benin Bronzes.In this timeline, T&C will keep track ...

The Benin bronzes — beautiful pieces of art and brutal testimonies of colonial history — are a collection of artifacts made by the Edo peoples from the Kingdom of Benin, ...