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New York museum returns Southeast Asian artifacts tied to looting

December 16, 2023598 Views

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City said on Friday that it would return 14 sculptures to Cambodia and two to Thailand that were associated with an art dealer who was charged with trafficking looted antiquities in 2019. The return of the sculptures to their countries of origin would empty the Met's collection of art associated with Douglas Latchford, a dealer charged with smuggling looted artifacts from Southeast Asia, the museum said. The U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York indicted Latchford for supplying major auction houses, art dealers and museums with looted antiquities and falsifying documentation about where he obtained the art. Latchford died at his home in Bangkok in 2020, the New York Times reported. FILE PHOTO: People stand outside T...

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New York museums to disclose artwork looted by Nazis

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September 18, 2022761 Views

Museums in New York that exhibit artworks looted by Nazis during the Holocaust are now required by law to let the public know about those dark chapters in their provenance through placards displayed with the stolen objects. At least 600,000 pieces of art were looted from Jewish people before and during World War II, according to experts. Some of that plunder wound up in the world’s great museums. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law in August requiring museums to put up signs identifying pieces looted by the Nazis from 1933 through 1945. A 15th century work from the Netherlands, "Crib of the Infant Jesus"—a 1974 gift from Ruth Blumka to the Metropolitan Museum of Art—is shown on exhibition at the museum Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) The ne...