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For years, the head of a queen sat in storage in a building in Berlin. Her face is smooth, but her head is intricately engraved and topped with a crown befitting a
lyoba a matriarch figure from the Kingdom of Benin, in present day Nigeria.
Carved in the early 16
th century, it is one of more than a thousand metal sculptures looted by British soldiers as they plundered Benin City in 1897. In the century since, the so-called Benin Bronzes have been bought and sold by museums and private collectors across Europe and North America, and today they are among the most coveted African artifacts in the world.
Benin
Tanzania
Nigeria
New-york
United-states
Savoy
France-general
France
United-kingdom
Congo
Rwanda
Boston
The New Press publishes Two Women in Their Time: The Belarus Free Theatre and the Art of Resistance
Rehearsal of Burning Doors on Tour in Finland. © Misha Friedman.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The tireless Belarus Free Theatre, in short, is more than a theatrical marvel. It is, arguably, a theatre of firsts: the first contemporary company to survive, function and flourish both in exile and at home, despite repression; the first to rely on the Internet to direct and create its art; the first to campaign globally for human rights as well as basic artistic freedom; the first to perform before the UK s Parliament. American Theatre
Serbia
New-york
United-states
Moscow
Moskva
Russia
Japan
Minsk
Belarus-general
Belarus
Argentina
Riverhead