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Author: BY TOM MASHBERG - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 04:00AM Officials plan to use evidence from the former looter known as Lion as they seek the return of stolen objects from museums and private collections.

Author: BY TOM MASHBERG - Publish Date: November 22, 2021 at 03:30AM A Cambodian temple looter, who says more than 100 artifacts he stole are in museums around the world, is working to help reclaim them.

Author: BY MATT STEVENS - Publish Date: November 6, 2021 at 12:20AM The institution’s National Museum of African Art says it has removed the artworks from display. It is the latest museum to promise to repatriate the works to Nigeria.

Author: BY JASON FARAGO - Publish Date: September 30, 2021 at 11:54PM The subject is one of the gravest topics in art history. I came for the lost stories of Jewish collectors. Where were they?

Author: BY COLIN MOYNIHAN - Publish Date: August 25, 2021 at 11:54PM The owner of a Manhattan gallery was charged with grand larceny and other crimes by prosecutors who say he mass-produced objects that he passed off as ancient artifacts.

Author: BY CATHERINE HICKLEY - Publish Date: August 17, 2021 at 11:47PM A fight over a landscape painting bought for Hitler is focused on the question of whether its sale was voluntary or forced by economic distress the Nazis helped create.

Author: BY COLIN MOYNIHAN - Publish Date: February 20, 2021 at 08:54AM The heirs have argued that the work by Wassily Kandinsky was sold under duress by its Jewish owners after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.

Author: BY ADOM GETACHEW - Publish Date: July 27, 2020 at 12:00PM This is what real “decolonization” should look like.

Author: BY SCOTT REYBURN - Publish Date: February 5, 2020 at 07:21AM The most high-profile works, a Pissarro and two Signacs, had been looted by the Nazis and recently returned to the heirs of the original owner.

Author: KAREN ZRAICK - Publish Date: May 9, 2019 at 07:00AM Facebook groups offer ancient treasures from Syria, Iraq and other conflict zones, some of which may have been pillaged by Islamic State militants.

Author: HOLLAND COTTER - Publish Date: May 9, 2019 at 07:00AM Too expensive to be self-sustaining, museums rely on collectors’ fortunes and corporate money. Now that money is being put under a microscope.

Author: AURELIEN BREEDEN - Publish Date: April 15, 2019 at 07:00AM The mission is to actively identify pieces that were looted or sold under duress during the Nazi era and to return them to the original owners or heirs.

Author: JOANNA BERENDT - Publish Date: March 15, 2019 at 07:00AM The man, an art dealer, wants to trade the work for compensation for land he says Poland confiscated from his mother, a Jew who fled the Nazis.