Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The Benin kingdom and its art went into decline soon afterward. Like the Roman Pantheon and Thomas Jefferson’s mansion at Monticello, the art of Benin flaunts the wealth gained by slavers.

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from 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.

What does the art of Benin tell us? Learn about animals in Benin art and how brass statues were made in this BBC Bitesize KS2 year 3/4 History guide.

The art of the Benin kingdom, Farmer-Paellmann contends, represents the proceeds of a crime against humanity. The oba should not profit from the part his ancestors played in the crime.

The two artefacts are being restituted as part of the museum's closure of its Benin gallery, which had been donated by the ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The ...

Called “Everything Precious is Fragile,” Benin’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale will explore the theme of African feminism and features four critically acclaimed contemporary artists ...

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 ...

Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been ...

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 ...