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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Potteryplease, post: 9599440, member: 16407&quot;]The American TV news magazine &quot;60 Minutes&quot; did a report last weekend about antiquities looted from Cambodia in the 1980-90&#039;s and now being returned to the government of Cambodia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]f1DFOGHHcm4[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>A curator at the MET, which purchased some of the statues from a shady dealer, weakly offered that, at the time, it was argued that in politically unstable countries, precious artifacts could be destroyed and &#039;expatriating&#039; them was akin to preserving them. I thought that was interesting-- there&#039;s a lot to unpack in that statement.</p><p><br /></p><p>The American lawyer organizing the project used the term &#039;blood antiquities.&#039;&nbsp; I also thought that was interesting, as something like this mask no doubt has a complicated colonialist history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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