The government of Turkey has asked the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection to return artifacts that it believes were looted. It has threatened to halt all loans of art to those institutions until they respond to the claims.
Via the LA Times.
Tags: art, international, law, looting, museums, nonprofits
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