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The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The ...
The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...
Boston will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on 28 April, but most of the works it had been created to display will not be repatriated to their place of origin. Instead, all but five of the objects ...
The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...
The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...
WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...
The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in ...
Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor ...
Ex-equalities boss Sir Trevor Phillips says artefacts like the Elgin Marbles or Benin Bronzes should not be returned ...
Case of artefacts looted by British soldiers is ‘more complex than a simple matter of right or wrong’, warns Sir Trevor ...