UNESCO Under Fire For Using Met Objects In Anti-Trafficking Campaign

NANCY KENNEY

13th November 2020

Having never found evidence of any kind of the art trade being tied to terrorist funding in their own or several other intensive studies, UNESCO nonetheless went ahead and smeared both private collectors and museums at once with a libelous ad campaign. UNESCO has now pulled back images from an advertising campaign intended to highlight international trafficking in looted artifacts after facing complaints that it misrepresented the provenance of the works in pictures. Among the objects used in the campaign were three from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without their consent. The pieces of course were legally acquired long ago, like the majority of antiquities held in private and public collections.