The Fowler Museum at UCLA is scheduled to announce Wednesday that it will be repatriating 20 items of significant cultural importance to the Warumungu community of Tennant Creek in northern Australia. Warumungu elders Cliff Plummer Jabarula and William Ah Kit Jakamarra will be at the Fowler for a “handover event,” joined by representatives from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and …
At least six sculptures, potentially as many as 19, stolen during an 1897 massacre by British colonists in Africa have been sitting quietly in two Los Angeles art museum collections for the past half-century. The mistake, easily corrected with a simple metallurgic test, was so common that the entire genre of art is now known as “Benin bronzes.” Locally, UCLA’s …
