‘Looty’ project digitally repatriates stolen art

Some Western museums have begun returning the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but the process has been slow, bureaucratic and uneven. What if Nigerians could bypass all of that and take the Bronzes back right now? The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports on a NFT art project that does just that. 

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