Benin Bronzes Aren’t Safer in the West Than They Would Be in Nigeria, Academics Say

Alex Greenberger, Benin Bronzes Aren’t Safer in the West Than They Would Be in Nigeria, Academics Say, ARTnews, 12.04.21.

“At a virtual conference held by Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America on Friday, academics pushed against a number of myths surrounding the Benin Bronzes, a controversial group of thousands of art objects looted from the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, in 1897 by British troops as part of a colonial conquest.”