Met Museum Implements Plan to Recover Looted Art from Collections After Seizures.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a new effort to review its collection and policies with the aim of returning items with problematic histories. The museum will hire a four-person provenance research team to review its holdings for works with tainted histories. The Met has been facing increasing calls to repatriate works that law enforcement officials and foreign governments say it has no right to. The museum's stature and the scope of its effort is likely to affect how other institutions grapple with the increasing pressure to return ancient items that bear evidence of having been looted.