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3 weeks agoWhy New York can be a risky place for dealers and museums to hold art
The Manhattan District Attorney's (DA) office has for many years been seizing antiquities from dealers, collectors and even museums. Since 2017, around 6,000 objects have been seized and most of these have now been repatriated to countries of origin like India, Mexico, China and Greece. In April, the DA received a very favourable ruling from the state's supreme court allowing the seizure of the Egon Schiele drawing, Russian War Prisoner (1916), at the Art Institute of Chicago. The museum is now appealing that decision.
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