Head of New York's Met museum pledges to return trafficked art
New York (AFP) - The director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday the famed institution would return more pieces of art to countries that were victims of looting as it joins in efforts to fight international antiquities trafficking. "You will see and hear from the Met museum not only about more outcome from our research but actually more restitutions, more returns and more collaborations with those countries," Max Hollein told foreign journalists. "We don't want to have any object in our collections that came illegally," said the Austrian art historian, who has headed the Me...