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 ...

The forthcoming Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, is sitting atop a treasure trove of cultural heritage. Valuable archaeological remains from the former Kingdom of Benin ...

The ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital, witnessed an artistic rebirth when some legendary and emerging Nigerian visual artists converged on the red city for a 10-day Benin Art Fair. The ...

Benin-based fine artist Blessing Odigie has said despite its famous bronze works that scattered across museums and galleries in Europe and America, Benin art market is still evolving, unlike Lagos.

Beautiful bronze sculptures and castings from West Africa have long been exhibited in some of the world's most august institutions, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday it's ...

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.

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum The royal palace of the oba or king of Benin was adorned with hundreds of elaborately ornamented plaques, such as this one.

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC has removed ...

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 ...