28/02/2010

Kingdom of Ife | Art review | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

Kingdom of Ife | Art review | Art and design | guardian.co.uk

This is an exceptional exhibition, even by the high standards the British Museum has established in recent years. It is extraordinary because it brings together such a large number of masterpieces that have rarely or never been exhibited outside Nigeria before – and when I say masterpieces, I mean artworks that rank with the Terracotta Army, the Parthenon or the mask of Tutankhamun as treasures of the human spirit.

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