Editorial | The Denver Art Museum must address the “Looted” scandal
The Denver Post’s Sam Tabachnik exposed the dark underside of America’s vast international art collection housed in museums, universities, and private homes across the nation in the three-part series, “.”
We have heard rumors that the Denver Art Museum is among the worst institutions in America in terms of their willingness to accept plundered and looted art. But The Post’s investigation was the first time hard evidence of such bad behavior has been laid out so cleanly and so irrefutably. and then legitimized by The Scholar Emma C. Bunker, but the Denver Art Museum’s complicity also helped give these two people legitimacy in the eyes of other buyers.as he sought to burnish his reputation,” The Post’s investigation found. “The institution housed more looted pieces of his than any other collection aside from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ‘Pandora Papers’ investigation found last year.
But the action rings hollow now that we know Cambodian officials have requested Denver Art Museum records for any pieces that came from Latchford and Bunker and that the museum has not responded to the request after 18 months., whose name appears on The Bunker Gallery section of the Denver Art Museum’s Southeast Asian gallery.The Bunker Gallery section of the Denver Art Museum’s Southeast Asian art galleries at the Martin Building is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022.
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