Long before the tragic looting of 1897 defined its image in the West, the Benin Kingdom negotiated with Europe from a position of absolute strength. A new exhibition at Lisbon's Ndikama Museum rewinds ...

"Every square meter in Benin City has an artist," Victor Ehikhamenor said with a laugh. He was talking about the capital of Edo, the Nigerian State, which is famed as a historical, cultural and ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return three artworks, including two Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria, accelerating a fast-moving development to repatriate the nation’s treasures, which were looted by ...

Beninese president Patrice Talon (right) attends the opening of “Benin Art from Yesterday to Today, from Restitution to Revelation” at the Palais de la Marin last month. LAST MONTH, when Benin’s ...

Digital Benin, the first digital platform to gather and offer in-depth information on artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin, is live. The initiative, launched by the Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und ...

The Benin Kingdom, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the end of the nineteenth century, produced a corpus of artworks remarkable for their artistry and technical virtuosity. Benin art ...

The largest collection of looted goods from the former kingdom resides in the UK, yet the British government is more reluctant than other countries to return the treasures to their rightful place.

Installation view of 56 Benin bronze plaques in the Africa Galleries at the British Museum in London this year. (photo by Olivia McEwan) In the latest effort to repatriate the Benin Bronzes, thousands ...

The Southland town of Gore is best known for its giant statue of a brown trout and the Golden Guitars country music festival. But the town’s Eastern Southland Gallery (ESG) also hosts one of the ...

As more looted art comes back to Africa, countries have wrestled with the right way to display it. That 200,000 people have lined up for a show suggests Benin has found an answer. By Elian Peltier ...