Collection Redirection: Pointed Commentary from a Source Close to the Met on the Flood of Givebacks artsjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artsjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially restituted three objects in its collection to Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM). The Met had promised to return the objects this past June, and did so in a ceremony in New York on Monday, where the museum also signed an agreement promising to collaborate with the Nigerian government on future scholarship and loans of other artwork. Under this arrangement, the Met will lend some of its holdings to several Nigerian museums, including the planned Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. In exchange, the NCMM will
NY Met to repatriate two Benin Bronzes theboar.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboar.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NY Met to repatriate two Benin Bronzes theboar.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theboar.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.