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 ...

More than a century after being looted from Nigeria, a set of Benin bronzes are going home. The Benin bronzes — beautiful pieces of art and brutal testimonies of colonial history — are a collection of ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Victor Ehikhamenor describes his childhood in Benin City, Nigeria, as magical. “My grandfather was a big ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — In a ceremony Tuesday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art formally transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The bronzes are a small part of the ...

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.

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum returned a Nigerian bronze sculpture, “Head of a King (Oba),” to the Nigerian National Collections Oct. 11. The sculpture had been held by the museum since ...

Benin bronze jewelry is a unique art form that hails from West Africa. The intricate designs and historical significance of ...

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 ...

Digital Benin, the first digital platform to gather and offer in-depth information on artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin, is live. The initiative, launched by the Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und ...

The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany's Rhineland region, a ...

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 ...

Left: A bronze plaque with two men holding short bows and swords. Right: A plaque showing a person with a ceremonial sword, musicians with gongs and trumpets at the bottom, and the lower-halves of ...