Opinion | Victoria Reed: Kim Kardashian caught up in lawsuit revealing shameful art world reality. - NBCNewsTHINK
Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images fileVictoria Reed, Sadler curator for provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Bostonfiled by the U.S. government alleging she was the intended recipient of an illegally imported ancient Roman sculpture. Federal agents seized the sculpture in 2016 when it entered the U.S. and are now seeking its forfeiture. According to the complaint, officials from Italy have examined the sculpture and stated that it was looted and smuggled from Italian soil.
Allegations of art looting and smuggling conjure up images of clandestine, backroom deals and the black market, but the allegations in this case suggest that in most cases, nothing could be further from the truth.the sculpture had been exhibited at the foremost annual global art fair, where Dealers, private collectors and museum curators from around the world to do their shopping from a selection of carefully vetted gallery stock.
A savvy art buyer will know the key to making sure their purchase is aboveboard is to scrutinize its provenance; that is, the record of its history of ownership. A close examination of an object’s provenance can reveal whether it was stolen or smuggled in the past and whether it’s on the market legally. But records of provenance are especially easy to falsify for ancient and archaeological materials.
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