Art collectors at an auction of the Robert Von Hirsch fine art collection at Sotheby's Bond Street location in London (1978) (all images courtesy Pegasus Books) Success! Your account was created and ...

Benin faced a number of negative spillovers in 2022: a deteriorating regional security situation at its northern border, the ...

This brass figure is believed to be Prince Oranmiyan. Edo legend says that no one in Benin had ever seen a horse before Oranmiyan arrived! In the 1100s the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom.

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

Robell Awake is a chairmaker and scholar based in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, "A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects." ...

The craftsman makes sturdy ladder-back chairs through green woodworking, a technique that carves out furniture from a log. Its seats are finely woven, and the two horizontal bars that connect the two ...

Exciting news that Yale University Press will be publishing a new in-depth biography on Hans Holbein the Younger in November 2025. The volume has been produced by Elizabeth Goldring, who has published ...