Showing posts with label Cambodian art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambodian art. Show all posts
February 23, 2026

From Skanda Trust to Singapore: Tracing One Spunky Hanuman to Douglas Latchford

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If you read our recent article about the Dong Son bell identified at a museum in Assen and the troubling questions surrounding its provenanc...
January 31, 2021

Sometimes restitution is a little like putting lipstick on a pig

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Left: Steve Green and the Controversial Coptic Galatians fragment first offered on eBay in 2012 by Yakup Ekşioğlu. Right: Douglas Latchford ...
August 11, 2020

Dying to get away with it: How one defendant's death may thwart justice for the people of Cambodia, Thailand, and India

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Douglas Latchford's Facebook page photo on 9 November 2017, two years before he was indicted in the USA Wire fraud, smuggling, ...
November 27, 2019

"Hold on to your hat": Antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford, a/k/a “Pakpong Kriangsak”

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Looted Cambodian art for sale by Douglas Latchford Image Credit:  US DOJ In a case being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica...
February 29, 2016

How many repatriated (previously looted) Khmer statues can you name?

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Torso of the warrior god Rama On Wednesday February 24, 2016 the Denver Art Museum flew the repatriated tenth-century statue of the war...
June 30, 2014

His Highness Sisowath Ravivaddhana Monipong presented "The Duryodhana, the Balarama and the Bhima: a Cambodian perspective on the return of three pre-Angkorian sandstone statues from Prasat Chen at the Koh Ker temple complex" at ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference

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These photos were provided by M. Bertrand Porte, French School for Asian Arts (EFEO), who is the head of the restoration workshop of th...

University of Glasgow's Simon MacKenzie received Eleanor and Anthony Vallombroso Award for Excellence in Art Crime Scholarship for his work on the Trafficking Culture project

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Noah Charney (left) and Simon Mackenzie (right) in Amelia by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor AMELIA - ARCA Founder Noah Charney pr...
June 21, 2014

ARCA '14 Conference, Panel V: Looting, Litigation and Repatriation

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The fifth panel at ARCA's Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Art Crime Conference will feature: Will it be the Getty Bronze or L'atl...
June 6, 2014

Tess "Indiana Jane" Davis credited with helping return looted Hindu statues to Cambodia in the case of the Looted Temples of Koh ker

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In a June 6th article in The Diplomat , journalist Luke Hunt points to the "critical" efforts of American researcher Tess Davis...
June 4, 2014

Cambodia celebrates the reunion of three Hindu statues after four decades

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Photo credit to Tess Davis (Facebook) by Catherine Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor Tess Davis, former ARCA lecturer in Cultural Property La...
May 21, 2014

LA Times' Mike Boehm on the return of the "Temple Wrestler" from the Norton Simon Museum to Cambodia

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Mike Boehm, an arts reporter for the Los Angeles Times , publishes today on the return of the "Temple Wrestler" from the Nor...
May 17, 2014

Norton Simon Museum announces "Temple Wrestler" last day on display in Pasadena will be May 22

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by Catherine Schofield Sezgin, ARCA Blog Editor-in-Chief Today the Norton Simon Museum here in Pasadena sent out an email to the communi...
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December 30, 2013

Was the repatriation of a footless 10th century statue to Cambodia this month related to Sotheby's history of selling Khmer pieces with "no published provenance" or "weak" collecting histories?

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This month's repatriation of a 10th century footless sandstone statue looted from an archaeological site in Cambodia has a backstory g...