A staple in Dubai’s cultural calendar, Alserkal Art Week is a marker of the city’s art season, signalling a renewed slate of ...

Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past ...

By Mamby Diomandé, Founder and General Commissioner of SIMA, and Lionel Talon, Cultural Entrepreneur, Founder of the WeLovEya Festival and the EYA Community Center (Benin) African music is gaining ...

The MOWAA opening is delayed thanks to protesters crashing a preview event of the highly anticipated Museum of West African ...

Roberto Zinli aka Président Djangoun, is a fashion designer and social media star in Beninwho turns waste into wearable art.

Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) finds itself in the crosshairs of local power politics.

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston returned two artefacts to the Oba of Benin in a ceremony at Nigeria House in New York City. Looted during the infamous "punitive expedition" attack by British ...

The move comes amid mounting tensions between the state government, the Oba of Benin, and stakeholders over the rightful ...

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 ...

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. Guilds were groups of craft workers like wood carvers, ivory carvers, leather workers, weavers and blacksmiths. Brass ...

PREMIUM TIMES reported that protests erupted during the exhibition’s scheduled opening when armed individuals disrupted the ...