The story is well told in Barnaby Phillips’s Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes, published last year. A cockerel (18th century) (© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource ...

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 ...

In 2026, Nigeria plans to open the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. The museum will house a majority of the ...

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.

The Benin Bronzes is a catch-all term for the 10,000 items of art stolen from the Oba’s ancestor, including this 1550 horn player held by the Met. But campaign groups say the Oba’s family ...

"This is a typical example of looted art," added the 50-year-old. The story of the Benin Bronzes is one of violence and tragedy. It began when nine British officers were killed on a trade mission ...

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 ...

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 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 Benin bronzes celebrate practices that persist today ... Benin Kingdom national treasures to the museum (“MFA to return art to donor, close gallery,” Page A1, April 23).

The Benin Bronzes are indispensable to Nigeria ... s Father on His Deathbed” by Max Slevogt—to the heirs of Berlin art dealer Bruno Cassirer. They reached a deal to repurchase the paintings.