The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York has announced that they will be returning 16 sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand. The works have been associated with known antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford, who was indicted in 2019 prior to his death in 2020. Latchford was a dealer who was charged with “running a vast antiquities trafficking network” in southeast Asia.
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The Metropolitan Museum in New York has announced that the ownership of two objects in their collection is being transferred to the Republic of Yemen. In what has been described as a “custodial agreement”, the objects will remain on loan to the Met, given the civil war in Yemen.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that they had purchased an important nineteenth-century painting attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans. The painting is the first naturalistic portrait of a named Black subject in an American landscape to enter the museum’s collection. Betty Kornhauser, curator for American paintings at the Met enthused “I’ve been wanting to add such a work to the Met’s collection for the past 10 years, and this is the extraordinary work that appeared.”
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