The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

Days before Valentine's Day in 1979, a two century old bust of the Greek God Hermes was stolen in broad daylight out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during one of the busiest times in its history.

Fourteen sculptures that had been looted from ... The items repatriated from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) arrived earlier this week and were displayed to journalists and ...

The sculpture — just ... statuette is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The Met notes that the statuette combines the classical Greek tradition of nudity with ...

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has ... taking antiquities from Greece, Italy, and Egypt totaling $1.1 million. The office also seized a $25 million statue of a Roman emperor that had ...

IN THE palatial rooms of the Metropolitan Museum. New York is celebrating the works of art that have burst from ... of the individual's style. The sculptures included in the exhibition are ...

Jessica Colley Clarke No museum in the United States is as celebrated as the Metropolitan Museum ... collections (the first floor's Greek and Roman art and Egyptian art, and the second floor's ...

The Metropolitan Museum had announced last December that it would return more than a dozen artifacts to Thailand and Cambodia after they were linked to the late Douglas Latchford, an art dealer ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s National Museum ... New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The objects — a tall bronze figure called the Standing Shiva or Golden Boy and a smaller sculpture called ...