The ancient city of Benin, the Edo State capital, witnessed an artistic rebirth when some legendary and emerging Nigerian visual artists converged on the red city for a 10-day Benin Art Fair. The ...

Benin-based fine artist Blessing Odigie has said despite its famous bronze works that scattered across museums and galleries in Europe and America, Benin art market is still evolving, unlike Lagos.

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History is often taught as if serious art followed a single European arc—from classical Greek sculpture to Renaissance ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the west African nation said late on Monday. The move represents "the return of ...

The Stanley Museum of Art is now the first U.S. institution to return works to the former Benin royal family. Court officials carrying the Benin Bronzes during the restitution ceremony. Photo by ...

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, UK, will shortly send around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative, according to the Observer ...

The Benin Kingdom, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the end of the nineteenth century, produced a corpus of artworks remarkable for their artistry and technical virtuosity. Benin art ...

The traditional ruler of the Benin Kingdom in southern Nigeria has welcomed a US museum’s decision to return two precious artefacts stolen by British forces in the 19th century. In a ceremony at the ...

Reprinted from Man (London) 11 (2) 1976, pages 243-252; originally titled "Men and Animals in Benin Art". Also reprinted in Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: selected readings, edited by ...