The Importance of Community in Art

If a museum or private collector on Fifth Avenue has a 3,000-year-old treasure that is found to have been looted or otherwise stolen, the country of origin may not even exist anymore. So how does Bogdanos manage that? Every country treats these differently, but we have yet to have a country who hasn't just been over the top appreciative and extraordinarily gracious. We returned an antiquity to Iran. The US doesn't have diplomatic relations with Iran. What do I care? I'm not a politician. Now move the map to Southeast Asia, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Pakistan. For that area of the world, these antiquities are idols. They're worship