Art & Exhibitions The Republic of Benin Is Getting Its First-Ever National Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale The West African country’s pavilion will be organized by the curator and critic ...

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London mdash; Nigerian rapper and activist Emmanuel Great Okugun, known as Gee Baller and Yaya Bande, staged a protest at the ...

The Museum of West African Art, based in Benin City, Nigeria, announced Thursday that it will officially open its campus to the public on Nov. 11.

Art Wolfe visits West African villages known for vibrant inhabitants and intense rituals. West Africa is the birthplace of Voodoo; in Togo and Benin ancestors commingle with the living. Whether it ...

The museum had received those Benin Bronzes through donations. In recent years, the National Museum of African Art has been working to shift the way it presents the Benin Bronzes that it owns.

WASHINGTON (7News) — In a ceremony Tuesday morning, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art formally transferred ownership of 29 Benin bronzes to Nigeria. The bronzes are a small part ...

In May, 2018, the Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku shouted for help in the lobby of the Musée d’Aquitaine, in Bordeaux. “I want to go home,” he cried. “Benin. Edo . . . Take me back home ...

Art historians have interrogated themes such as commodification and fetishization, amid Euro-African power dynamics and a fresh wave of “negrophilia” in France in the 1920s.

France will return 26 African artworks — royal thrones, revered statues, etc. — to Benin later this month, but no apology from Macron.

Edo artist, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Plaque, Mid-16th to 17th century, Copper alloy. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will display nine works from the royal court of Benin in a ...