NEW YORK, Sept 29 — The director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday the famed institution would return more pieces of art to countries that were victims of...
NEW YORK, Sept 29 — The director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday the famed institution would return more pieces of art to countries that were victims of looting as it joins in efforts to fight international antiquities trafficking.
“We don’t want to have any object in our collections that came illegally,” said the Austrian art historian, who has headed the Met since 2018.In recent years, the Met and other prestigious museums have agreed to return trafficked works, in particular pieces from countries riddled by conflict from 1970 to 1990.
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