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Looted art

A bronze standing Shiva statue is unpacked at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh after being returned to the kingdom in March 2023.

Looted relics returned to Cambodia receive monks’ blessings

Arts, Culture & Media

Cambodian artifacts were often looted out of the country beginning in the 1970s, under control of the Khmer Rouge. At least 13 antiquities have been returned this month amid a push in the art world from artists and scholars to return looted works to their countries of origin. 

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We’re just beginning to grasp the toll of ISIS’ archaeological looting in Syria

Culture
"A Woman Sitting In A Chair" by Henri Matisse. The painting is one of the 1,400 works confiscated from the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt, the son an Nazi era art dealer. The painting was allegedly looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis.

A Swiss musem accepts a ‘Nazi art’ collection — and vows to return stolen works

Arts
The Kunstmuseum Bern art museum in the Swiss capital of Bern was named as the sole heir of Cornelius Gurlitt.

German recluse has left his Nazi-era hoard of art to a Swiss museum

Arts, Culture & Media
This Matisse painting is the object of competing claims in Germany.

An amazing collection of stolen German art may go back to the man who has been hiding it for decades

Arts, Culture & Media

The US gives Poland back a painting stolen by the Nazis

Arts, Culture & Media

When the Nazis occupied Poland during World War II, they plundered a great deal of the country’s cultural heritage. The painting “St. Philip baptizing the servant of Queen Kandaki,” by Johann Conrad Seekatz, was among them. But the US recently recovered the painting and returned it to Poland.

Iraq’s national museum reopens

Arts, Culture & Media

Iraq’s National Museum in Baghdad was formally re-dedicated this week — it has been closed for six years since chaotic weeks following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The World

Poland Discovers 17th Century Looted Art in River

Arts, Culture & Media

A once sunken treasure emerges in our Geo Quiz. A drought in Central Europe has caused Poland’s longest river to recede, exposing tons of long lost stonework and marble.

New Initiative To Recover WWII Stolen Art

Arts, Culture & Media

The Provenance Research Training Program is a major initiative aimed at recovering stolen art from the Nazi era. Wesley Fisher, research director for the Conference on Jewish Claims Against Germany describes the goals of the program.