Artist community in Lagos couldn’t have wished for a more merrier and rewarding week than penultimate week, when the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos hosted a solo travelling exhibition by Dr. (Princess ...

The Federal High Court has been urged to restrain the promoters of the controversial Museum of West African Contemporary ...

A Benin chief is seeking court order to stop MOWAA from using Benin artefacts without Oba’s approval. A member of the Benin ...

The Federal High Court has slated November 27 to hear a suit seeking to declare the Oba of Benin as the rightful person to ...

What do you do after you’ve made the first Afrobeats song to top U.S. radio, the first to earn more than a billion streams on Spotify as a track led by an African artist, and the first to cinch the ...

For the first time since its inception in 1895, the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair has invited the West African nation of Benin to host a pavilion. Curator Azu Nwagbogu and his team of four ...

Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo State has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to safeguarding the sanctity of Benin culture and tradition. Mr Okpebholo said this while addressing hundreds of ...

President Emmanuel Macron's ambition to return looted artifacts to Benin has been in the works for the while, and now it seems like there's an actual timeline. Emmanuel Macron shaking hands with Benin ...

Benin is an undiscovered paradise in West Africa, a country steeped in culture and colonial history. Sharing land borders with Nigeria, Togo, Niger and Burkina-Faso, it is one of West Africa’s most ...

Art matters in our lives. In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Known as Asen, forged iron ...

The Benin Traditional Council (BTC), on Tuesday, said it was yet to know the aim of Iyaloja designation being introduced to Edo State. It said if it were a national concept, the the Iyaloja of Nigeria ...

People perform a dance on a canoe during a festival of water sports, culture and arts in Ganvie, near Cotonou, Benin, Aug. 30, 2025. (Photo: Xinhua) A young girl participates in a canoe dance ...