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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that they will return 16 Khmer artifacts to Cambodia and Thailand. The artifacts were one of the numerous works once sold by disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford. The late dealer was convicted…

A joint investigation suggests that 77 items in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art might be linked to disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor. The joint investigation was carried out by the International Consortium of…

The heirs of a Jewish art collector have sued the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, over an allegedly Nazi-looted Vincent van Gogh painting. The case was filed at a federal court in San…

Manhattan’s DA office recently seized antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) to repatriate them to their homes. While the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has carried out multiple raids on the Met this year, this…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced that it will return a 10th century Shiva Hindu sculpture to Nepal after finding gaps in the provenance documents. The 13-inch sculpture depicts the Hindu deity Lord Shiva,…

Famed artist Georg Baselitz and his wife have gifted six portraits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The six portraits are all inverted and date back to 1969. All of them depict friends and colleagues of Baselitz from the…