Museum says it wants no stolen artwork and that it has initiated an expedited review of hundreds of works tied to specific dealers.
The estate of a Jewish art dealer has won a decade-long court battle over a $25 million painting whose ownership was exposed by secret financial documents obtained by ICIJ and its media partners.
The proposed Art Market Integrity Act would subject art brokers to the same BSA reporting requirements as antiquities dealers, banks and other financial institutions.
The sprawling tale takes viewers on a journey from temples deep in the sweltering jungles of Southeast Asia to the heights of the Western art world.
The symbolic handover of items from President Joe Biden to Indian leader Narendra Modi included some relics identified as part of ICIJ’s Hidden Treasure investigation.
Despite high-profile efforts to repatriate Khmer artifacts, the expulsion of the longtime advocate continues an ongoing saga for the museum.
The spate of repatriations followed extensive efforts to trace and recover looted ancient artifacts, including some identified by ICIJ and linked to disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford.
The long-awaited appointment, which elicited skepticism from some in the art world, follows investigations by ICIJ and others into the origins of the museum’s treasures.
From government probes to police raids and pop culture, the impact of ICIJ’s unflinching reporting reverberated around the world.
One of the sculptures — a striking stone portrait of Vishnu stolen from a shrine in the ’80s — was gifted to the museum in 1995 and identified decades later by online sleuths.
Billionaire George Lindemann showcased his collection of Khmer treasures and passed them on to his children. But investigations by ICIJ and others traced many of his prized antiquities back to pillaged sacred sites.
The repatriation of the three millennia-old statues is the latest to follow investigations by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and others.
Douglas Latchford’s estate agreed to forfeit the money and return a 7th-century statue. Relics tied to the accused smuggler remain in museums and private collections around the world.
The museum’s plan includes hiring a four-person team — led by a new “manager of provenance” — to root out suspect works among the Met’s many treasures with a view to returning them.
ICIJ spent the last year doing what it does best: mining datasets, sifting through documents and shining a light on systems previously shrouded in secrecy.
Ongoing investigations continue to show that the New York art museum is housing pieces it doesn’t have the rights to.
Reporters pinpointed the pieces, from India to Italy to Egypt, in North America’s largest museum. What do the findings mean for the Met’s future – and the future of all museums?
Over the last 12 months, the newsroom behind the world’s biggest journalism collaborations put out more deep-dive global exposés than ever before.
The works confiscated from Met trustee Shelby White’s home include rare Roman and Greek antiquities now repatriated to Italy and Turkey.
Ancient Greek statues were among a trove of relics confiscated by law enforcement in recent weeks, previously unreported search warrants show.
Photos featured in Architectural Digest stories on the homes of the billionaire Lindemann family offer clues to investigators struggling to reclaim lost cultural heritage and shed light on the secretive private antiquities trade.
A museum and private collectors relinquished dozens of religious artifacts linked to alleged antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford, whose offshore trusts were uncovered in the Pandora Papers.
A U.S. Treasury study found that shell companies and secrecy put the art industry at risk of financial crimes — but says other reforms are of a higher priority.
The Pandora Papers reveal more than 1,600 works of art secretly traded through tax havens.
Netscape co-founder Jim Clark paid millions for antiquities bought from alleged trafficker Douglas Latchford, whose secret offshore dealings were exposed in the Pandora Papers.