Ghana will receive hoards of looted Asante gold regalia from Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom. After Tristram …
Wander in the bowels of the pyramid of Cheops, along the Nile on a dugout, or attend the embalming of …
The New York-based museum announced its intention to return the artifacts in June. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the …
France has formally handed back 26 artifacts that it looted from what is now Benin in 1892 when it was …
The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC has removed its Benin bronzes from the display and …
The master of a Cambridge University college has described the return of a looted bronze cockerel to representatives of Nigeria …
Cambridge University will on Wednesday become the first British institution to return a Benin Bronze to the Nigerian authorities. Jesus …
Nigeria has finally reached an agreement with the German government on the return of the Benin bronzes. A Memorandum of …
Emeralds were believed to have held miraculous powers to heal and to ward off evil A pair of rare diamond …
A Nigerian group of artists has offered to donate artworks to the British Museum in London to encourage it to …
The official said the reparation of the artefacts would go with building an ultramodern museum in Edo and the training …
The Nigerian Government has demanded what it described as “a full and unconditional” return of 1,130 Benin Bronzes that were …
Thinkspace Projects is pleased to present a myriad of new work for one week only this July. Although the gallery …
The portrait of Michelle Obama hanging at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. will be taken down on …
Most of the artefacts were looted by British forces during a military expedition to the kingdom, in what is now …
In 1897, British colonial forces razed Benin City, massacring an unknown number of people and bringing a violent end to …
Another UK museum has considered restitution of objects in its collection seized from Benin City. In a new policy document, …
One of the last remaining paintings by Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone has sold for more than any of her works …
Jason Moran (Houston, TX, 1975) is a Jazz pianist, composer, and artist. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010 …
A portrait of Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old former National Youth Poet Laureate who gave a widely admired recital at the …
A massive Banksy exhibition is coming to London this spring featuring 80 of the artist’s original works. The Art of …
An exhibition of 40,000 clay figures by Angel of the North creator Sir Anthony Gormley is coming to Sunderland. Field …
The beginning of every New Year is an opportunity to think about new beginnings. It’s also known, in some intellectual …
Measuring just 16cm by 21cm, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Abraham and the Angels (1646) may be diminutive in size, but its …
One of Australia’s most important contemporary art museums re-opened on Boxing Day after closing its doors for nine months. The …
Isata Funma sees me eyeing up the beaded West African head in the double living room of her arctic London …
New digital technology could be used to reconstruct 3D images of important Indigenous rock art sites destroyed by bushfires that …
With the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale postponed to August 29 because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, concerns are still swirling over whether the outbreak …
“It’s so hard to give vocal lessons by Skype. It’s terrible!” Lusine Arakelyan is an opera singer who teaches at …
Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest brokers of fine art, jewelry, real estate, and collectibles, ran an online auction from …
