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What was meant to be a celebratory moment for Nigeria’s art scene has instead highlighted present tension and past trauma ...

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

The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the ...

The Museum of West African Art is poised to give Nigeria an institution of global significance, although its most hyped attractions won’t be there. Credit...Video by Stephen Tayo For The New York ...

The Edo capital, Benin City, has been renowned for centuries as the heart of bronze and brass craftsmanship. Using long iron tongs, Victor Uinmwen Aduwe and Matthew Mathias pick a blazing pot from a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One cabinet card with an albumen photographic print by Cyril Punch of a Benin altar with two bronze heads supporting ivory tusks and framing a ...

Photographs collected for research in 1980 and in the course of field work at the royal court of Benin in 1982 and 1985, as well as photographs taken by Kaplan are used to stimulate, supplement, and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston has returned a bronze relief plaque and a commemorative head, both part of the ...