Repatriation of African Art
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Repatriation of African art gains momentum and funding by Manny Tajeda-Moreno for the Wildhunt.org In February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ended an Egyptian art exhibition titled “Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin” after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office revealed that the provenance of the golden coffin had been faked by a Parisian art dealer in 1971. “Stewards of the world’s […]
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