Metcalf Jr. Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Jan Howard and Curator of Ancient Art, Gina Borromeo, who have been tracing the provenance of the museum’s Benin Bronze Head, and working ...

"They must be entrusted to the descendants of the enslaved," not returned unconditionally to Nigeria, writes one stakeholder. Another writes that the MFA should be "the moral leader this moment ...

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 ...

The British Museum must not succumb to pressure to return the Benin Bronzes to Africa, as the case for their restitution is 'weak', Sir Trevor Phillips has said. The former head of the Racial ...

The US Supreme Court has denied a petition to block the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. from restituting 29 Benin ...

The German government returned some of the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria– 125 years after they were stolen by the British troops in 1897. Cultural historian, art and heritage specialist Dr. Oluwatoyin ...

The Benin bronzes were taken when the city was looted ... At the moment, many museums still hold hundreds of pieces of Benin art. These artefacts are important to the people of modern-day Africa ...

Benin Bronzes are exhibited in museums around the world, but the largest collection can be found in the British Museum. While Germany announced the return of the bronzes in its possession, some ...

Contemporary art has a crucial role to play here ... The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks, published by Pluto Press, is now available ...

Benin art features people ... This will keep my dad busy! My dad is a bronze caster. He makes all kinds of stuff. But the Oba wants him to make a very fancy mask in time for the parade.

The Benin Kingdom — as opposed to the modern ... In June, the museum plans to display the five bronzes in its Art of Africa Gallery. (It will also display one on loan from Lehman, a ...