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.

The Stanley Museum of Art is now the first U.S. institution to return works to the former Benin royal family. Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony. Photo by ...

The West African country’s pavilion will be organized by the curator and critic Azu Nwagbogu. Azu Nwagbogu, who will curate the Republic of Benin's first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Courtesy of ...

The traditional ruler of the Benin Kingdom in southern Nigeria has welcomed a US museum’s decision to return two precious artefacts stolen by British forces in the 19th century. In a ceremony at the ...

This singular executive act has several implications for restituting these copper-alloy art masterpieces forcefully removed from present-day Edo State, Nigeria. The Cambridge, UK, Museum of ...

"N.ART.UREL" in the Pahou Classified Forest, in Ouidah, Benin. The second edition of the group exhibition opened on Wednesday ...

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 ...

Paper presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, October 15-18, 1980. Subsequently published in Images of power: art of the royal court of Benin / edited by ...

One of the great changes in artistic vision of the 20th century was the shift from the classical ideals of Greek and Roman statuary to a larger view that accepted primitive art as no less human and as ...

The leopard face brass hip mask in the Allen Memorial Art Museum is the focal point for Blackmun's larger examination of the iconography of the leopard in Benin art. The leopard is a royal metaphor ...