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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 ...
WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...
The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...
The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their ...
After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened with its historical collections in lively conversation ...
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 ...
In recent decades archaeologists in Shaanxi, China, have found artefacts evidencing new civilizations, many are on show at ...
had long presented the museum with a daunting ethical question: Many of the sculptures were forcibly taken during a bloody raid in 1897, when British troops sacked Benin City, plundering thousands ...
Calls to return the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria have been branded “weak” by Britain’s former anti-racism tsar. Sir Trevor ...
A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...
Britain should resist demands to return “looted” treasures such as the Benin Bronzes or the Elgin Marbles according to the former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. In a paper ...