Does LACMA Have a Looted Art Problem?
Scholars are raising questions about the origins of the works in LACMA, while curators are wondering how much they’ll have to send back.
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Scholars are raising questions about the origins of the works in LACMA, while curators are wondering how much they’ll have to send back.
New report traces the origins of the oft-repeated superlative, which its authors say is incorrect and actually makes it harder to fight trafficking
The assertion that the illicit antiquities trade is “the world’s third largest, second only to arms and narcotics” is unsubstantiated and damaging, a new paper argues.
An investigation into a five-decade-long belief that the illicit antiquities and artifact trade is among the top 3 of international smuggling crimes has found it to be unfounded.
"A transnational clothing brand staffing its factories with slave labor. An 11th-century statue stolen from a temple, trafficked overseas, and sold to a museum for millions of dollars...A drug-related massacre and hundreds of people missing as a result.