Many of the works headed back to Cambodia and Thailand were featured in the museum’s galleries. All were linked to Douglas Latchford, a Khmer art collector later charged as a trafficker.
Tag: Museums
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The Glory of Designs by Women (It’s About Time)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten.
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I Wanna Be Curated: Can You Really Put Punk in a Museum?
In Las Vegas, the answer is a resounding yes — and why not throw in a wedding chapel and a bar, too?
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After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine
The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be kept out of the aggressor’s hands.