via Apple Podcasts, 28 February 2023: A new podcast starting this week draw the curtain on Douglas Latchford, the disgraced art dealer who was indicted for fascilitating the theft and sale of numerous Cambodian and other Southeast Asian antiquities, and also the Met’s complicity in all this,
How Douglas Latchford, a nobody from colonial India, makes a name for himself dealing in Cambodian art. It’s the 1960s, and no one cares about Westerners stealing ancient statues from poor countries to sell in London and New York. But, as attitudes start to change, gossip mounts about Douglas.
