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Artist Tom Gamache’s new exhibit at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji explores both personal memories and traditional Ojibe ...
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has announced the public opening of the first campus building on its site in Benin ...
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is pleased to announce the official public opening of the first phase of its Campus ...
The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to ...
Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...
The Global Ethnodoxology Network (GEN) has appointed Brazilian musician and ethnomusicologist Héber Negrão as its new ...
Matthew Teitelbaum has presided over the MFA as museums across the country have become arenas of cultural struggle.
Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to ...
The Dutch government agreed to return 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in February, and the official handover ceremony will take place on 21 June. British colonial troops originally stole the ...
A year later, Degbo returned to China to study traditional performance arts, including lion and dragon dances, skills he would later impart in Benin to preserve and share Chinese culture.
The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...
Construction of the new Museum of Modern Art is underway in Cotonou, Benin's largest city. The museum, along with three others being built throughout the country, are part of the Beninese ...