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.

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 ...

The ceramics communal studio in the Visual Arts Building was speckled with clay figurines, pots, and mugs, showing off the incredible talent of the artists in a casual way. Donté K. Hayes’ corner of ...

Last month, France’s Musée du Quai Branly restituted 26 stolen cultural objects to the Republic of Benin. Now, the African country is planning to exhibit those artifacts alongside contemporary works ...

The largest collection of looted goods from the former kingdom resides in the UK, yet the British government is more reluctant than other countries to return the treasures to their rightful place.

French President Macron meets Benin's counterpart Talon in Paris COTONOU (Reuters) - Twenty-six works of art seized by French colonial soldiers in 1892 returned to Benin on Wednesday, a landmark in ...

The British Museum and other UK institutions with Benin bronzes in their collections are facing growing pressure to return them to Africa. Now, the Guardian newspaper has increased the heat by ...

British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile. The ...

Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been ...

The Denver Art Museum has formally removed a looted Benin plaque from its collection — the first step toward repatriating a prized relic that the British plundered in West Africa more than a century ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that his country will return 26 African artworks — royal thrones, ceremonial altars, revered statues — to Benin later this month, part of France’s ...