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While I was at the US National Museum of African Art for the LGBTQ show, I also saw their exhibit on Benin bronzes before they’re repatriated.
Slightly confusingly, these pieces are not from the county of Benin but rather a part of Nigeria.
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Benim bronzes/ XVI century
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The Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) and the row over Nigeria's Benin Bronzes
Todah OpeyemiBBC Africa, Benin City AFP/Getty Images Guests and dignitaries looked on as protesters stormed the Museum of West African Art in Benin City on Sunday Nigeria’s stunning new Museum of West African Art (Mowaa) has found itself in the crosshairs of local power politics on the week it was supposed to – but failed – to open its doors to the public for the first time. The six-hectare…
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Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas | Benin
In a corner of the new Museum of West African Art, visitors can marvel at a sample display of the cultural treasures that adorned the royal palace that once stood in its place: a proud cockerel, a plaque with three mighty warriors, a bust of a king with a glorious beaded collar. The artefacts, collectively known as the Benin bronzes, were looted by British colonial forces who went on to burn down…
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Pays-Bas remboursent 119 bronzes du Bénin au Nigéria
Jeudi, les Pays-Bas ont renvoyé au Nigeria 119 artefacts dérobés, comprenant des statuettes d’hommes et d’animaux, des plaques décoratives, des habits royaux et une cloche. Ces artefacts, communément appelés bronzes du Bénin et majoritairement préservés dans un musée de Leyde, ont été dérobés par des troupes britanniques à la fin du XIXe siècle. Au cours des dernières années, les musées en Europe…
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Carl Sandburg
I The bronze General Grant riding a bronze horse in Lincoln Park Shrivels in the sun by day when the motor cars whirr by in long processions going somewhere to keep appointments for dinner and matineés and buying and selling Though in the dusk and nightfall when high waves are piling On the slabs of the promenade along the lake shore near by I have seen the general dare the combers come closer And make to ride his bronze horse out into the hoofs and guns of the storm.
II I cross Lincoln Park on a winter night when the snow is falling. Lincoln in bronze stands among the white lines of snow, his bronze forehead meeting soft echoes of the newsies crying forty thousand men are dead along the Yser, his bronze ears listening to the mumbled roar of the city at his bronze feet. A lithe Indian on a bronze pony, Shakespeare seated with long legs in bronze, Garibaldi in a bronze cape, they hold places in the cold, lonely snow to-night on their pedestals and so they will hold them past midnight and into the dawn.
