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Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture
The Tumaco-Tolita people, who lived in an area rich in natural gold, crafted intricate and delicate metal objects until the ...
The Met Has Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art returns centuries-old Cambodian statues looted during past turmoil
Fourteen sculptures that had been looted from ... The items repatriated from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) arrived earlier this week and were displayed to journalists and ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ...
Art Seizures at the Met Caused Concern. His Job Is to Address It.
After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police ...
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The Case of the Missing Head: The Cleveland Museum of Art to Return Statue to Türkiye
In 2023, the New York County Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, or NYATU, had seized a statue in the collection of ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jessica Colley Clarke No museum in the United States is as celebrated as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Spilling over with masterpieces from all over the world, including notable collections from ...
Art Institute showcases ancient Roman sculptures in unprecedented 'Myth and Marble' exhibit
Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works ...
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Stolen statues return to a shrine too small to hold them
On a recent afternoon, returned statues the size of refrigerators ... The remnants of its blue shipping crate, sealed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York weeks earlier, were scattered ...
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The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene ... That’s because, in this case, the Met ...