U.S. Homeland Security agents seized more than a dozen looted Asian antiquities, valued at $1.29 million, from Yale University in Connecticut:
’s online catalogue, which has presumably not yet been updated, still turns up 14 works linked to Kapoor, four of which are listed as being on view. Another seven could be seen by appointment at the university’s Wurtele Study Center and Duffy Study Room., which noted that all the artifacts were from India, save one from Burma. The university declined to offer further comment to Artnet News.
Many of the Yale artifacts that appear to be linked to Kapoor came from the Rubin-Ladd Foundation, which may have donated his illegally imported antiquities to museums across the U.S. and beyond. The connection between the dealer and the American arts and culture foundation wasfrom the India Pride Project in a report published last summer. But Kapoor’s illicit activities have been in the spotlight for far longer.
U.S. authorities were first alerted to Kapoor in 2011, after he was arrested in Germany on smuggling charges. Investigations revealed stashes of 2,600 artifacts from Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Thailand, among other countries—all with fake provenance papers—in his New York City storage facilities. The Manhattan District Attorney’s OfficeKapoor is currently being held in Trichy prison in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu on charges of theft and illegal export of antiquities.
“We hope other states take this seriously in going after the perpetrators, as Kapoor’s suppliers are still very active, pillaging and smuggling our antiquities,” Vijay Kumar, a self-described “idol hunter” who has aided efforts to restitute looted Indian antiquities and cofounded the India Pride Project, told theIn the meantime, the art Kapoor stole is slowly but surely making its way home. Last April, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.
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