Centuries after Europe’s colonial scramble, the fight to reclaim looted masterpieces, from West African “talking drums” to ...

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The ...

Museums worldwide are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Here's why it matters, who's receiving them, and what it means ...

The two pieces were returned as part of the museum’s colonial-era provenance program which looks to identify artifacts that ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

T he Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has returned two historic works of art looted from the Benin Kingdom in 1897 to the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare II.

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 ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in ...