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 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.

In Benin, a 'kataklè' - a ceremonial stool, and the final piece of the royal treasure of Abomey - has been returned by ...

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

In 2006, after decades of resistance, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York agreed to return ... looks like should ultimately be up to the Benin Kingdom, which still exists today as a ...

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

The kataklè is a three-legged royal chair from Dahomey, a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed ... delving into texts on Beninese art and the restitution ...

The kataklè is a three-legged royal chair from Dahomey, a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed ... delving into texts on Beninese art and the restitution of works ...

"This is a typical example of looted art," added the 50-year-old ... were killed on a trade mission to the then independent kingdom of Benin, in the south of present-day Nigeria.