
08/02/2024
I remember how seeing stone & bronze sculptures around temples in India was one of the many amazing experiences that I had there. Imagine what it will be like when every town's cultural heritage is sold off and never to be returned. How sad.
It is sad that people will buy stolen goods that are so precious and carry so much more meaning in their temples and holy sites than in someone's living room or museum.
This is a link to a short documentary on art theft in India. But I am sure you can apply this to any number of countries in the world. Not just in Asia.
Our cultural history is continuously comodified, and now especially at a time when more and more people look to AI for their (questionable) cultural experience..
In a remote village temple in India, a gang of thieves pulled off a daring heist of some of the nation's most precious cultural heritage. Two citizen detecti...