Just one week after @HSINewYork and @SDNYnews repatriated a $35m collection of Cambodian art, here is the latest on contested Khmer antiquities at @metmuseum from @TMashberg at @nytimesarts.

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nytimes.com/2022/08/18/art… 1) This story began—publicly at least—in February 2012 when @TMashberg and @ralphblu of @nytimesarts revealed that Cambodia was calling on Sotheby's to return a 1000-year-old stone warrior...

... whose feet and pedestal remained at the site of Koh Ker. nytimes.com/2012/02/29/art…