The carved ivory tusks from the Benin kingdom constitute a distinctive genre within the Benin corpus. Blackmun has been studying the motifs carved in relief on the ivories and has assembled and ...

The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin There is not much time left to view the masterful and ...

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 ...

For more than a decade, a collection of masterful works from the West African Kingdom of Benin have held pride of place at the Museum of Fine Arts, in a dedicated gallery just off the museum’s central ...

The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead. By Colin Moynihan and Tom ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by Dr. Arese Carrington, a member of ...

The Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, has told the Iyaloja-General of Market Women Association, Mrs. Folashade Ojo-Tinubu that ‘Iyaloja-General’ concept “is alien to Benin tradition.” The revered ...