Nepal
Restitutionnews
Antiquities worth $1m, including a piece tied to trafficker Subhash Kapoor, returned to Nepal
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection
Metropolitan Museum returns two sculptures to Nepal
The artworks include an 11th-century stone sculpture donated by a relative of a longtime curator of Asian art at the Met
Repatriationnews
Stolen Nepalese temple artefacts found at London gallery returned in embassy ceremony
The artefacts, from the 16th and 18th centuries, were discovered in Barakat Gallery and were voluntarily handed over to police
Art marketnews
Bonhams consignor withdraws looted Nepalese sculptures from auction
The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site
Restitutionnews
Looted in the 1980s, a sacred stele at the Dallas Museum of Art is headed back to Nepal
After FBI investigation, sculptural antiquity lent by a collector is determined to have a disturbing provenance