{"id":13378,"date":"2014-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/10\/us-museum-s-purchase-of-bronze-art-investigated\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:00:00","slug":"us-museum-s-purchase-of-bronze-art-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/10\/us-museum-s-purchase-of-bronze-art-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"US Museum&#8217;s Purchase of Bronze Art Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/Art\/2014\/03\/05\/Museum-s-purchase-of-bronze-art-investigated.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OHIO, US, March 5, 2014 (Toledo Blade): For the third time recently, an acquisition by the Toledo Museum of Art is the subject of a federal probe. The museum was contacted just over a week ago by the U.S. Justice Department regarding a bronze figure it purchased from Subhash Kapoor, a second-generation antiques dealer and owner of Art of the Past Gallery in New York City. He is facing trial in India on charges of illegal exportation, conspiracy, and forgery.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is in its very early stages, Kelly Garrow, communications director for TMA, said, adding that the museum will cooperate fully. &#8220;At the time of consideration, the museum received a provenance affidavit, and the curator personally spoke to the listed previous owner,&#8221; the statement says. &#8220;The object was also run through the Art Loss Registry with no issues detected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Questioned is a bronze statue of the Hindu Deity Ganesh, known as the Ganesha, on display in the Asian Sculpture Gallery. The museum acquired the figure in 2006 from Mr. Kapoor. A New York Times report says the museum bought the Ganesha for $245,000.<\/p>\n<p>The museum has not been asked to turn over the Ganesha, which closely resembles a figure listed as stolen in an Indian police report. The item is one of 18 metal Deities missing from a village in Tamil Nadu, a state in southeast India. The museum&#8217;s Web site says the Indian police department sent the museum copies of the report along with photos of the looted goods in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source OHIO, US, March 5, 2014 (Toledo Blade): For the third time recently, an acquisition by the Toledo Museum of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}