The new law, which was initiated by President Patrice Talon, who has been in office since 2016, is part of a broader effort by Benin to reckon with its own historical role in the slave trade.. The ...

The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Tuesday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lent from the collection of Robert Owen ...

There is not much time left to view the masterful and historic bronze figures in the Museum of Fine Arts’ Benin Kingdom Gallery. The museum said this week the gallery will close April 28 after a ...

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has returned two works of art to the Kingdom of Benin after 12 years in its collection. The transfer was coordinated and facilitated by Dr. Arese Carrington, a ...

At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead.

While announcing that its Benin Kingdom Gallery would close this month, the museum wrote that many of the items in the Lehman collection, which was formed in the 1970s and 1980s through purchase ...