{"id":16535,"date":"2019-08-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/08\/20\/famed-ny-musueum-reviews-items-from-india-it-received-from-a-dealer-now-a-looting-suspect\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"famed-ny-musueum-reviews-items-from-india-it-received-from-a-dealer-now-a-looting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2019\/08\/20\/famed-ny-musueum-reviews-items-from-india-it-received-from-a-dealer-now-a-looting-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed NY Musueum Reviews Items from India It Received From a Dealer, Now a Looting Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/18\/arts\/design\/india-met-museum-accused-looter.html?action=click&#038;module=Latest&#038;pgtype=Homepage\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/08\/19\/arts\/18metindia1\/18metindia1-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&#038;auto=webp\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 18, 2019 (NY Times): Officials of the Indian government and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are discussing whether a number of prized antiquities that the museum began acquiring three decades ago were the product of looting by Subhash Kapoor, a Manhattan art dealer accused of being one of the world&#8217;s most prolific smugglers of stolen artifacts. Since 1990, the Met has acquired some 15 antiquities that passed through Mr. Kapoor&#8217;s hands during a period in which, the authorities say, his smuggling ring was active and he routinely sold or donated rare and costly artifacts to at least a dozen American museums. The discussions are part of a major push by India to recover some of the tens of thousands of sacred statues and ancient relics now known to have been plundered in the last half-century by a variety of smugglers and temple raiders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we have since learned of the multiple law enforcement actions, and in the spirit of our enhanced procedures over recent years, we are now seeking to identify additional provenance information,&#8221; the museum said in a statement. &#8220;It is a good initiative,&#8221; D.M. Dimri, a spokesman for the Archaeological Survey of India, said of the Met&#8217;s effort. His agency is responsible for safeguarding India&#8217;s most illustrious objects and monuments. &#8220;We hope other museums will follow suit too and verify the source of their acquisitions in case they have our stolen antiquities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 18, 2019 (NY Times): Officials of the Indian government and the Metropolitan 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-16535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535","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=16535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}