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The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

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The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country

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The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited

The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it

Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees

The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide

An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future

The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024

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Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”

Breslin, who co-curated the 2022 Whitney Biennial, will oversee the Met’s major expansion project

The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories

The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh

The artefacts could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before traveling to Athens

The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones

The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research

Georges Lotfi has been accused of handling the types of materials he helped the police recover and repatriate for years

Hollein, who will add the role to his title after Daniel H. Weiss resigns next year, was the “clear choice”, according to the Met’s board of trustees