Turkey's restitution dispute with the Met challenges the 'universal museum'
Turkey is flexing its cultural, as well as its economic and military muscles. But objects of art outlive the ambitions of nation states
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, like most institutions of its size in the US and Europe, has seen its fair share of lawsuits and controversies surrounding its collection. It returned nearly two dozen antiquities to Italy in 2006, as well as work acquired via Nazi looting.
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