Friday, January 5, 2024
Volume:
40
Issue:
1
Abstract:
On December 5, 2023, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Virginia announced that it has deaccessioned and returned 44 works of ancient art after an investigation by the Manhattan D.A.’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU) and Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) into the international trafficking of looted or stolen antiquities.