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The Metropolitan Museum will return 15 sculptures sold by trafficker Subhash Kapoor to India

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

Benjamin Sutton
30 March 2023
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is returning 15 sculptures it acquired from convicted antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor to India Photo by ajay_suresh, via Wikimedia Commons