Metropolitan Museum will return stolen sculptures
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Friday that it will return more than a dozen ancient pieces of artwork to Cambodia and Thailand after they were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. The repatriation of the ancient pieces was linked to art dealer Douglas Latchford, who was indicted in 2019 for allegedly orchestrating a multiyear scheme to sell looted Cambodian antiquities on the international art market. “The Metropolitan Museum of Art has not only recognized the significance of these 13 Khmer artifacts, which were shamelessly stolen, but has also volunteered to return them, as part of their ongoing cooperation, to their rightful owners: the People of Cambodia.” This isn’t the first time the museum has repatriated art linked to Latchford. The latest works being returned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art were made between the ninth and 14th centuries and reflect the Hindu and Buddhist religious systems prominent during that time, according to the museum.
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