The returns come as the Denver Art Museum faces a reckoning over its past collection habits — and the shady dealers who helped fill its glass cases.
Shein 2021 to charges of conspiracy and possession of stolen property. In remarks before a New York court, Wiener admitted to buying plundered antiquities and fabricating provenance documents, which trace a piece’s ownership history.
“For decades I conducted business in a market where buying and selling antiquities with vague or even no provenance was the norm,” the gallery owner said, according to court transcripts. “Obfuscation and silence were accepted responses to questions concerning the source from which an object had been obtained. In short, it was a conspiracy of the willing.”
Nancy Wiener, who did not respond to inquiries Tuesday, worked closely with another disgraced collector,
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