Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin’s striking installations at MAAM and the Boston Public Art Triennial explore Indigenous ...

The Wereldmuseum in Leiden is preparing to return 113 ancient sculptures to Nigeria, as pressure mounts on Western ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artifact before gently ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping it in dozens of layers of ...

Ezeluomba, curator of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and an expert on the bronzes who grew up in the Kingdom of Benin. Lehman is a great-grandson of Emanuel Lehman, one of three ...

Sold to private collectors and museums in the Global North, the artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes, included ceremonial ... €1.2 million from a fine-art foundation in Berlin called Ernst ...

The art will be, in almost every sense ... to be “Nigeria” that makes the choice to sell or to display the Benin bronzes. It’s going to be one person and one family, who prevailed in ...

The Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the German government announced they were returning scores of sculptures, plaques and ornaments, known as the Benin Bronzes ...

the Museum of West African Art in Edo State, there is a vital need for the narrative of the restitution of the Benin bronzes to be told from the perspective of Africans, based on the realities on ...

The Benin Bronzes have become a symbol of debates about restitution and colonial capture of native art (Robert Michael/dpa/picture alliance ) For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins ...

"The Benin Bronzes are the most famous ancient works of art in all West Africa," study author Tobias Skowronek said in a statement. "Finally, we can prove the totally unexpected: the brass used ...