{"id":86450,"date":"2019-03-16T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T21:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=86450"},"modified":"2019-03-16T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T21:35:14","slug":"there-is-no-excuse-amsterdams-rijksmuseum-in-discussions-to-return-looted-colonial-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/03\/16\/there-is-no-excuse-amsterdams-rijksmuseum-in-discussions-to-return-looted-colonial-art\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There Is No Excuse\u2019: Amsterdam\u2019s Rijksmuseum in Discussions to Return Looted Colonial Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-contributor-name-left field-type-ds field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<h2 class=\"field-item even\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>BY\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/frieze.com\/contributor\/frieze-news-desk\">FRIEZE NEWS DESK<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-post-date-left field-type-ds field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">15 MAR 2019<\/div>\n<div><strong>Amsterdam\u2019s Rijksmuseum is in talks with representatives from Sri Lanka and Indonesia about returning ten objects to their place of origin, in a move described as \u2018pioneering\u2019.<\/strong>\u00a0The objects, taken during Dutch colonial and military campaigns, are likely to include a diamond believed to have belonged to the Sultan Panembahan Adam of Banjarmasin as well as a ruby-encrusted cannon. The Rijksmuseum is thought to hold around 1000 stolen artefacts. The museum\u2019s director, Taco Dibbets said in an interview with Dutch newspaper\u00a0<em>De Trouw<\/em>: \u2018It\u2019s a disgrace that the\u00a0Netherlands\u00a0is only now turning its attention to the return of the colonial heritage. We should have done it earlier and there is no excuse.\u2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default landscape-image\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/frieze.com\/sites\/default\/files\/editorial\/ng-nm-1015_0.jpg\" alt=\"Cannon, anonymous, c.1745. Courtesy: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam\" data-delta=\"2\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0FRIEZE NEWS DESK 15 MAR 2019 Amsterdam\u2019s Rijksmuseum is in talks with representatives from Sri Lanka and Indonesia about returning ten objects to their place of origin, in a move described as \u2018pioneering\u2019.\u00a0The objects, taken during Dutch colonial and military campaigns, are likely to include a diamond believed to have belonged to the Sultan Panembahan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}