Europeans in Benin art were often shown holding a gun ... He was a god who travelled with Prince Oranmiyan when he arrived to found the kingdom of Benin. The mask was worn by a dancer in the ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28 ... The gallery space will also be transformed to highlight the MFA’s collection of Nubian Art. That will go on display on May ...

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently ...

Because many of the sculptures had been originally plundered in a bloody British raid in 1897, the MFA subsequently sought a deal to transfer title to the Kingdom of Benin in exchange for a long ...

Ezeluomba, curator of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and an expert on the bronzes who grew up in the Kingdom of Benin. Lehman is a great-grandson of Emanuel Lehman, one of three ...

The Benin Kingdom — as opposed to the modern country ... the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and some German institutions have moved to repatriate the looted objects.

which will go on view in late June in its Art of Africa Gallery. The MFA Boston, "continues to seek a resolution regarding the ownership and display of the Benin Kingdom works in its collection ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April ... it did acquire from Lehman's collection in its Art of Africa Gallery.