Editorial: Philanthropy Is the Problem

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Shelby White is a mega-donor to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, who has given the museum tens of millions of dollars, and who has had more than 100 looted objectsmostly antiquities from the classical worldtaken from her personal collection and repatriated to their home countries.

But as Eric O.

Scott writes in the Atlantic, White is "not an archeologist or an art historian; she and her husband's fortune comes from investment banking and financial journalism."

And yet, because of her money, "arguably the most important museum in the United States sets its priorities to match hers.

And, as we have seen repeatedly, the Met seems less than interested in checking the provenance of such a major donor's collectiona practice that, whether or not it is intentional, contributes to looting and antiquities theft around the world."

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