News
Value of Looted Objects at Met Museum Tops $95M After New Seizures
Several ancient sculptures and vessels acquired between 1971 and 2001 were among the objects extracted from The Met's collection this June.
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AI Company Says It Has Outsmarted Caravaggio Experts
A work long believed to be a copy is in fact an original by the Italian Baroque painter, claims Art Recognition, which boasts that it can determine authenticity “based only on a photograph.”
News
Do You Have What It Takes to Be the Met Museum’s Head of Provenance?
The new hire, who will be paid $140,000–$160,000, will be responsible for investigating the sometimes murky backstories of the museum’s vast holdings.
News
How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture
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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Museum of Bible Returns 5,000 Artifacts With “Insufficient” Provenance to Egypt
The US Department of Homeland Security returned the artifacts to Cairo yesterday, concluding Egypt’s efforts to retrieve the items since 2016.
Opinion
In Mark Zuckerberg’s World, “Provenance” Means Nothing
The tech entrepreneur's use of the word provenance serves to erase its weighty history as an art historical term — and Facebook's complicity in spreading "fake news."