They wear belts hung with small crocodile heads, and these were ... or perhaps the people of Benin were one of the lost tribes of Israel. The sculptures must have derived from European influence ...

Benin,” she wrote in a post on X on Tuesday. In September 2020, the museum removed a collection of shrunken heads from its collection as part of what it refers to as its decolonization process.

They carved masks for ceremonies and they moulded sculptures of gods out of mud. In Benin City, craft workers were organised into groups known as guilds. There were guilds for wood carvers ...

On the banks of the River Lea at Bow Creek, Eva Rothschild’s Living Spring is turning heads. The new sculpture unveiled on The Line, London’s first dedicated public art walk – is formed of slender ...

The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from the West African kingdom of Benin - in what is today Edo State in southern Nigeria - by a British military force in ...

France is the guest-of-honor of JISP this year in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between China and France. Among the featured artists from France are Martial Raysse ...

Benin prosecutors said Wednesday that three prominent men including a presidential guard commander have been arrested on suspicion of planning a “coup d’etat” in the small West African nation.

Benin announced Wednesday evening that it had foiled a coup attempt and arrested Republican Guard Commander Djimon Dieudonne Trvoedjre, former Sports Minister Oswald Homeky, and businessman ...

Benin's president accuses Niger of treating his country like an "enemy", as tensions escalate. The African music star mulls her 40-year career, which is to be celebrated at the Royal Albert Hall.