Cambodia’s culture minister says the Metropolitan Museum of Art's return of 14 looted sculptures is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors.

However, Cambodia is no longer a struggling post-war country nor is it a major recipient of foreign aid, with conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza grabbing the majority of the world’s attention.

Fourteen Khmer sculptures are being returned to Cambodia while two will go back to Thailand, the museum announced. All the pieces were tied to art dealer Douglas Latchford, who was indicted in ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand that ...

Cambodia welcomes the Met­ro­politan Museum of Art's plan to return looted an­tiq­uities BY Associated Press Manhattan PUBLISHED 8:00 AM ET Dec. 16, 2023 ...

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—A young Cambodian artist named Ouk Chim Vichet smiles nervously as cameras flash around him. He is one of 21 fourth-year Royal University of Fine Arts students participating ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's upcoming November exhibition on the reconstruction of its 7th-century Cambodian sculpture of Krishna highlights its close collaboration with a Southeast Asian nation ...

The Visual Arts Open, Dec. 9-31 in Phenom Penh, will provide a unique opportunity for the artists to display artwork that's out of the accepted Cambodian art boundaries.

Latchford, a British art collector, died in 2020, not long after he was charged with trafficking in stolen antiquities. After his death, his daughter donated all the Khmer artworks she had ...

Cambodia has begun to press the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan to document how it acquired dozens of Khmer Empire antiquities that Cambodian officials, citing new evidence, believe were ...

In 2017, CLA established a sister organization, the Mekong Cultural Hub (MCH), to take the mission of CLA beyond Cambodia’s borders and build links among artists and cultural practitioners throughout ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia has welcomed the announcement that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen pieces of ancient artwork to Cambodia and Thailand ...