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 ...

Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony (all photos by Omoregie Osakpolor, courtesy Stanley Museum of Art unless noted otherwise) The University of Iowa’s Stanley ...

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 ...

Repatriation negotiations between the two nations have been taking place over the past year. Henriette Reker (right), Lord Mayor of Cologne, symbolically hands over a bronze key from the Kingdom 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 ...

A bronze sculpture of a West African king that had been in the collection of a Rhode Island museum for more than 70 years was among 31 culturally precious objects that were returned to the Nigerian ...

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 ...

Dozens of Benin bronze sculptures are going on display for one last time in Berlin's new Humboldt Museum before being repatriated to Nigeria. Taken during the colonial era from the African Kingdom of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 'Altar group with a queen mother' one of more than 3,000 artworks pillaged from Benin during Britain's 1897 military expedition ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The National Gallery of Art (NGA), the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --German officials have handed over 20 artifacts known as Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, marking a major restitution of art that could lead to further restitution by other countries. The ...