Manhattan District Attorney Returns 27 Looted Artifacts to Cambodia
The objects were obtained in connection with investigations into dealers Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener.
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Looted Artifacts Worth $1.8 M. Returned to Afghanistan
The repatriated objects were recovered following an investigation by the D.A.'s antiquities trafficking unit into dealer Subhash Kapoor.
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Honolulu Art Museum Sues Collector for Donating Smuggled Art Worth $1.3 M.
On July 31, the Honolulu Art Museum sued the collector Joel Alexander Greene after he failed to establish provenance for five works he had donated to the Hawaiian museum’s collection, Courthouse…
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Morning Links: Subhash Kapoor Edition
The budget for the proposed Ground Zero Arts Center continues to shrink, now down to approximately half of its original cost at $200 million…
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Morning Links: Giant Slides Edition
An ancient Egyptian masterpiece displayed in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum—a 5-foot long painting known as “Meidum Geese”—may be a forgery. [The Art Newspaper] The Art Newspaper analyzed…
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