Denver Art Museum mulls fate of plundered African art
December 5, 2021 GMTDENVER (AP) — British troops in 1897 mounted a violent, retaliatory raid on the Kingdom of Benin, in what’s now southern Nigeria, looting and burning the royal palace and sending the oba, or king, into exile.
Denver museum gives up allegedly looted Cambodian artifacts
November 9, 2021 GMTDENVER (AP) — Prosecutors have filed a complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of four Cambodian antiquities that were sold to the Denver Art Museum by a late art dealer accused of pillaging and illegally selling ancient artifacts.
Exhibit opening in Dallas looks at history of Christian Dior
May 18, 2019 GMTDALLAS (AP) — The more than 70 years of fashion created by the famed House of Dior will be examined in an exhibit opening in Dallas that will feature almost 200 dresses...
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