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Smithsonian Announces Landmark Decision to Repatriate Benin Bronzes

by Cassie Packard March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

The institution says it will return most of the 39 artifacts in its collection to Nigeria for eventual display at the Benin City National Museum.

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The Forgotten Story of Modern Art’s Great Jewish Collectors

by Naomi Polonsky January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

Charles Dellheim’s study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Looking to the Future of Art Restitution

by Isabel Ling January 7, 2022January 12, 2022

For many people and organizations,restitution is simply the beginning of a long fight for cultural heritage and the right to remember.

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In Ceremony, Met Museum Officially Returns Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

by Valentina Di Liscia November 22, 2021November 22, 2021

The museum and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments entered into a shared agreement to collaborate on mutual loans of Benin objects and other “exchanges of expertise and art.”

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After Disappearing for Decades, a van Gogh Watercolor Sold Under Duress and Then Stolen by Nazis May Fetch $30M

by Michelle Young November 10, 2021November 11, 2021

The heirs of two Jewish collectors, one who sold the work to fund his escape from Germany, and another who had the artwork stolen by the Nazis, will receive financial restitution from the Christie’s sale.

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Nearly 250 Antiquities Repatriated to India

by Cassie Packard November 3, 2021November 3, 2021

Almost all of the antiquities, worth an estimated $15 million, were seized from the disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor.

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A Turkish Idol Will Not Be Repatriated, New York Judge Rules

by Cassie Packard October 12, 2021October 12, 2021

A US District Judge ruled Turkey “slept on its rights” to the figurine by waiting until 2017 to seek its return, after it had been on view at the Metropolitan Museum for decades.

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Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes

by Valentina Di Liscia September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

“We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen,” said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. “I think we make them even better now.”

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The City of Amsterdam Will Restitute a Kandinsky to Heirs

by Cassie Packard September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

Many had previously decried the decision not to restitute the work, alleging that the museum had more to gain by keeping the important painting than the heirs.

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Smithsonian Repatriates Sacred Items to the Siksika Nation

by Cassie Packard August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

The two objects will again be utilized in Siksika ceremonies.

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Looted 10th-century Cambodian Statue Is Going Home

by Cassie Packard July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

The widespread looting of antiquities was common in Cambodia from the mid-1960s into the 1990s.

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After Five Decades in San Francisco, Two Lintels Repatriated to Thailand

by Cassie Packard June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

The 1,500-pound lintels from the ninth and 10th centuries hail from protected religious sanctuaries in northeastern Thailand.

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