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Art Institute of Chicago Under Scrutiny Over Sacred Nepali Necklace

by Rhea Nayyar 23 hours agoMarch 21, 2023

The 17th-century object remains on display at the Chicago museum despite Nepal’s calls for repatriation.

Posted inOpinion

A Small Community in Nepal Wants Its Stolen God Back 

Avatar photo by Emiline Smith September 8, 2022September 8, 2022

Why should the people of Pharping celebrate their sacred festival with a replica of a 400-year-old idol while the original clearly sits in the collection of a Singapore museum?

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Nepal Debuts Inaugural Venice Pavilion With Rubin Museum’s Support

by Cassie Packard April 20, 2022April 21, 2022

The New York museum recently found itself in hot water over its holdings of two objects looted from Nepal, and there may be another contested work in its collection.

Posted inArt

The Surprising Mix of Tradition and Innovation in Nepal’s Contemporary Art Scene

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson April 2, 2022April 4, 2022

The work of many of Nepal’s contemporary artists suggests that the distinctions between labels like ancient and modern, or foreign and Nepali, will blur if you shift your point of view.

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New York’s Rubin Museum Will Help Preserve the Collection of One of Nepal’s Oldest Monasteries

by Hakim Bishara February 27, 2022February 26, 2022

Itum Bahal is known as the oldest and most important Buddhist monastery in Nepal’s capital.

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Returned to Nepal by the FBI, a Sculpture Becomes a God Again

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson December 17, 2021February 7, 2023

Last week, I flew to Nepal and witnessed a ceremony to replace a looted Lakshmi-Narayan sculpture to its original location.

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Two Nepalese Antiquities in the Rubin Museum Identified as Looted

by Cassie Packard September 24, 2021September 24, 2021

One researcher, Jürgen Schick, estimated that over half of the region’s historical artworks have been stolen.

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Stumbling Towards Repatriation

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Erin L. Thompson and Emiline Smith March 11, 2021February 7, 2023

We need to make it clear to our museums that we do not want to walk around in galleries of stolen artworks.

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How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

The looted status of the stele has been well documented since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until this year that the FBI and Dallas Museum of Art collaborated to return the religious artifact.

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Stolen Deities Resurface in a Dallas Museum

Avatar photo by Erin L. Thompson January 24, 2020March 9, 2021

A blogger’s shaky snapshots from an exhibition opening reveal where a Lakshmi-Narayana statue stolen from a temple in Kathmandu in 1984 had ended up: the Dallas Museum of Art.

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The Body as a Political Landscape at a Nepalese Photo Festival

Avatar photo by Sarah Nafisa Shahid November 5, 2018March 12, 2019

Whose and Whom brings together artists from around the globe who posit the body as a vehicle for performing gender.

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Transporting Sounds from Nepal’s Mountain Monasteries

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

Soundwalk Collective recorded wind at 200 villages and monasteries in Nepal to create an immersive experience at the Rubin Museum.

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