THEY ARE SELLING QUEEN-MOTHER IDIA MASK AND WE ARESunday, December 26, 2010
Various media, including the Art Newspaper www.theartnewspaper.com , and the Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms have reported that Sotheby's, the auction house in London, will be auctioning a re-discovered masterpiece of Benin art, the ivory pendant of Queen-Mother Idia, on 17th February 2011 and ...
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DOES HISTORY SUFFER WHEN CULTURAL ARTEFACTS ARE RETURNED?Sunday, August 15, 2010
This is a question that may surprise many and indeed many may consider it wiser to leave unanswered rather than hazard untenable answers. Michael Kaput has some views on this issue which he expresses in an article entitled, Whose Heritage? Repatriating ancient treasures seems like a noble cause, b ... |