Italians Meet With Met Museum Over Stolen Objects

Italian investigators were in New York last week to meet with officials at the Metropolitan Museum to talk about 22 items in the Met collection the Italians say were stolen. “In Rome, the Italian culture minister said yesterday that the Italian government had made overtures to the Met’s director, Philippe de Montebello, about a joint meeting to discuss ancient artworks that Italy claims were illegally excavated and exported before entering the museum’s collection of Greek and Roman art.”