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...case, according to police, Ghia confessed to sending the owners of a Manhattan gallery some photographs of a temple ceiling adorned with 16 statues. The gallery owners agreed on a price, police say, and Ghia then arranged for the statues to be stolen and sent to the buyers in New York City. In his lengthy written confession, Ghia stated that other private collectors and dealers came to India and toured deserted temples to pick out precisely what they wanted stolen for them...
...whom Ghia claims to have done business, according to Indian police, is Arnold Lieberman, one of America's foremost dealers in Asian antiquities. When contacted, Lieberman said he had never met Ghia. "I'm a known person [in the industry]," he said (and thus an easy target). Mother-daughter Manhattan dealers Doris and Nancy Wiener were also named by Ghia. Nancy Wiener said she knew nothing about the case or Ghia. According to an art-world source, Ghia's arrest sent shock waves through the business...
...relics Ghia is believed to have looted over the past three decades. Since news of the arrest was made public, three collectors have written to the police, offering to return stolen items they say they purchased in good faith. But most of the stolen treasures, still hidden inside a Manhattan loft or a Hong Kong boardroom, will probably never be recovered. "There is plenty," Shrivastava mourns, "that has been lost forever." --With reporting by Bu Hua/Xi'an, Simon Crittle/New York, Meenakshi Ganguly/Jaipur, Aparisim Ghosh/London and Robert Horn/Bangkok
...Manhattan Minerals plan looks like a good deal for the folks of Tambogrande, Peru. The Vancouver-based firm wants to invest $405 million to mine gold at Tambogrande, a town of 16,000 people in Peru's impoverished, northwest Piura state. Manhattan has promised to build new public infrastructure and to erect new, modern homes for any relocated residents--about a third of the town's population. The neighborhood would have electricity, potable running water, sewerage and paved streets--amenities now available to only 15% of the people in that area...
...York City during this summer's power failure didn't look as murky as it does in In the Cut. Jane Campion's new erotic thriller gives Lower Manhattan a sooty, abused tone that movies haven't often shown since the '70s. But it's appropriate for two characters inching their way toward moral blackout: Frannie (Meg Ryan), an English professor, and Molloy (Mark Ruffalo), a police detective on a serial-killer case. Both are drawn to dark spaces, where strange creatures crawl and sick excitement comes in all sorts of packages. Frannie has tiptoed down into one of those...