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A class action filed against Hungary in the federal court in Washington is demanding restitution for Hungary's Holocaust survivors. It's time for Israel to act on their behalf.

The defendants from the Remmo family are suspected of breaking into Dresdens Green Vault Museum in the early hours of November 25, 2019 and stealing 21 pieces of jewellery.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

In 1939, A Munich-baed art dealer forced the sale of a Camille Pissarro painting. The Cassirer family has been trying to get it back ever since.

Nobody is quite what they seem. And actors? Well, for actors that’s the job. Dame Helen Mirren, as well as being herself for 76 years, has by now notably been Lady Macbeth, a London gangster’s moll, a thief’s wife, an alcoholic cop, an action hero, Prospero and also a British monarch at least four times. Now she takes on Golda Meir, the late prime minister of Israel, in a new biopic, and the casting has caused controversy. The choice of a non-Jewish actor to star as a woman with such a pro...

She has played the Queen and a gangster’s moll but her casting as Golda Meir has sparked controversy

'Woman in Gold' and other art-related films show the challenges of fair-use for filmmakers

In the Neue Galerie, works by Klimt, Klee, Beckmann, Kubin, Moll and Schiele attest to the allure of art that flourished before WWII.

THE HOUSE OF GUCCI trailers and the House of Gucci movie are distinct cultural objects. The former appeared to have been edited in the cutting room of RuPaul’s Drag Race, pouring generously into the bottomless Bellini of camp Lady Gaga serves gay culture. Complete with baffling accent slips (was there a little too much vodka, the commentariat wondered, in Lady Gaga’s penne?), a blasphemous new Holy Trinity, and the foreboding power of a tiny spoon meeting the rim of a demitasse, they achieve...

Zu den Highlights der Saison im Teatro San Carlo, dem ältesten Opernhaus der Welt, zählt am 15. Februar 2022 „Aida“ mit Anna Netrebko und ihrem Gatten Yusif Eyvazov. Regisseur ist Franco Dragone, am Pult steht Michelangelo Mazza. Vom 13. bis zum 15. Mai 2022 wird „7 Deaths of Maria Callas“ der Performanceikone Marina Abramovic aufgeführt. Die Künstlerin hat für ihr Projekt mit dem US-Schauspieler Willem Dafoe („Van Gogh - An der Schwelle zur Ewigkeit“) sieben Filme gedreht, in...